When faced with an 80% increase in Employment Insurance claims in Saskatchewan, Minister Rob Norris said the increase was not unexpected and no cause for alarm.

"I don't think people in Saskatchewan expect too much of whoever their government is."

- Premier Brad Wall

Sask. Party government: from surplus to budge bust...
December 17, 2009
The province has moved overnight from a healthy projected surplus to a billion dollar deficit - the worse since 1991, the year of the scandal-ridden Devine Tory government which left Saskatchewan an economic basket case. -John F. Conway, The Prairie Dog