For example:
As for major deficiencies? Well, the Sask. Party can’t quite decide whether there were or weren’t any.
(Spoiler alert: there were. But we don’t know how many, or how much they cost to repair because the Sask. Party won’t say.)
This week, current Highways Minister Lori Carr said twice in the Legislature, “there are no major deficiencies on this bypass.”
This is puzzling, when a Freedom of Information request revealed a list of major deficiencies in an email from an official in highways, with the details redacted. And Former Highways Minister David Marit admitted there were major deficiencies, listing a breached aquifer on Wascana Creek as an example.
Does the Sask. Party think that redacting information makes it go away? That would explain a lot about their approach to transparency.
Stories are changing, information is being withheld, and redacted information is being treated as redacted reality — but taxpayers are still on the hook for the huge cost.
With $2 billion of public money on the line with this project, you’d think the Sask. Party government could be straight with the people who have to pay the bill.