According to Statistics Canada, under the Wall government, Saskatchewan had the highest cost of living increase in all of Canada?
"It's not the most fun in the world and I can't say it's been the stellar week of my career but life goes on. (Gantefoer, after comments on the harmonized sales tax (HST) and on health user fees raised both as issues for the NDP and the media)"
- Minister of Finance, Rod Gantefoer
Wall Government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem...
January 22, 2010
Perhaps worst of all, this is a government that didn't pay attention to the details of budgeting. Believing that the tide of money would just keep flowing in, it allowed operational spending of government departments to increase to $10 billion from $7.7 billion. As has been previously stated, the Sask. Party government has had more of a spending problem than a revenue problem. -Murray Mandryk, The Leader-Post
