Would you take economic advice from someone who lost 40 per cent of his investor’s money in just 6 months?
Likely not.
But Brad Wall and his Sask. Party are happy to take more than advice; they’re banking their “capital flight” argument on one.
Yesterday, Wall was back at, trying to shore up his bogus rhetoric. Taking to Twitter, Wall shared a Business News Network interview with a portfolio manager who talked about what he called the “profound sentiment (of) headwinds” in Canada that has forced him to pull his fund’s capital out of Canadian energy and invest into the US.
But he may not be the best person to be asking for economic advice. In the last six months, his energy fund has lost 40 per cent of investors’ money.
If this is how the Sask. Party are getting their financial advice, it may explain how they’ve managed to double the provincial debt in just five years and why they’ve run deficits in six out of the last 10 budgets.
The Sask. Party knows that the lack of pipeline capacity hurts Saskatchewan’s energy sector, but they’re missing the fact that it’s their refusal to show leadership on climate change and protecting our air and water that is to blame.
They’ve had 10 years to do something – anything – to address climate change. 10 years to do something – anything – get pipelines from Saskatchewan to tidewater approved. But, instead of doing something, they have succeeded at nothing.
Instead of pointing fingers and blaming others for the downturn caused by the price of oil – which they can’t control – the Sask. Party need to look in the mirror, accept responsibility, and get to work focusing on the things they can control: stopping their callous cuts, unfair tax-hikes, and desperate sell-offs and quit forcing Saskatchewan people to pay for their decade-long run of mismanagement scandal and waste.
Poor working conditions, favouritism, $300K travel nurse pay at issue
REGINA - Today, the Official Opposition released a letter signed by 49 emergency room nurses in Saskatoon. The letter slams the Sask. Party government for failing to support Saskatchewan nurses and curb the province’s reliance on expensive out-of-province travel nurses.
REGINA - Today, Official Opposition Critic for First Nations and Métis Relations Betty Nippi-Albright hosted a Day of Action with Indigenous leaders from Nekaneet First Nation, Yellow Quill First Nation, Waterhen Lake First Nation, Onion Lake Cree Nation, Carry The Kettle First Nation, Key First Nation and the residential school support team from Yorkton Tribal Council. Together, they continue to draw attention to the Sask. Party government’s disregard for the Duty to Consult process.
MOOSE JAW - Today, the Official Opposition stood with Taylor Enns, president of the Moose Jaw Firefighters Association, and Brayden Dutchak, the son of a cancer survivor. Together, they called on the Sask. Party government to reopen Saskatchewan’s only hyperbaric chamber.
Records show former Sask. Party Finance Minister lobbied for Calgary surgery scheme on behalf of a major Sask. Party donor
REGINA - Today, the Official Opposition grilled the Premier and his Minister of Health after the Minister misled the public, claiming that he had not been lobbied by a former Sask. Party MLA when Saskatchewan's official lobbyist logs show the exact opposite.