The spring session of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly was literally only minutes underway when Minister of Education, Donna Harpauer (MLA for Humboldt), was forced to rise in her place, withdraw unparliamentary language and apologize to all Members of the Assembly and to the Speaker.
Arrogance, thy name is 'Saskatchewan Party'.
I urge anyone to read Hansard and look up the comment. Kent, you are grasping at straws! She was requested to withdraw the statement that the members of the opposition were misleading the public. May be unparliamentary language, but the truth is the truth.
ReplyDeleteNumber 1 - there is no one here named' 'Kent'. Never was. For some reason you, the anonymous Sask Party blog 'NDP Bogeyman' is obsessed with the identity of the writer of this blog. Funny! An anonymous blogger wants to expose another 'anonymous' blogger.
ReplyDeleteBlaise and the Bogeyman continue to slander someone who has absolutely nothing to do with this blog. But hey, that's what Teaparty people are all about!
Number 2 - most people have no idea what you are talking about with your reference to Hansard. Since you are staff of the Saskatchewan Party caucus, and your wages are paid for by the taxpayer, you are well aware of what Hansard is and how it can be accessed.
I feel badly for the poor people of Humboldt. This is what they have to represent them?
Rightwingbob, why would you feel badly for the poor folks out in Humboldt, they could certainly be represented by worse.
ReplyDeleteOk ok. You are correct. It could be worse for the good folks of Humboldt. They could be represented by Bill Boyd, John Gormley, Brad Wall or Greg Brkich,
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly does the US Teaparty have to do with anything in this conversation, that is a stretch by anyones standard, even you Rightwingbob.
ReplyDeleteThe Teaparty movement in the USA is spawned and financially supported by large corporate interests who use their wealth and influence to infuse falsehoods and propaganda into the public debate. It is a type of corporate fascism that has now been adopted by a number of activists within the Saskatchewan Party. To the Teaparty movement, the interests and welfare of an entity such as PostashCorp is more important than the interests of the citizens of Saskatchewan. John Gormley routinely defends Teaparty leaders such as Sarah Palin. His close association with Brad Wall, the Sask Party, and likely yourself, is indicative of the influence that the Teaparty has on the ruling party in Saskatchewan. At least for the time being.
ReplyDeleteBefore you get to worried about the citizens of Saskatchewan, we are hands down some of the luckiest people on the planet, we are a province of just over 1 million that has a standard of living 2nd to none. We are moving in a positive direction by anyones standard that is willing to admit it. The NDP is plain mad because they missed the boat and are not steering the ship when it counts,to claim otherwise would generously be called sour grapes. Now the US Teaparty is certainly extreme but to compare them to any party in Canada again is a huge stretch. Potash Corp and othe big biz in SK are good for everyone, you, me, unions, lefty's and the right. Why is it so bad to support a biz that gives so much. Bob it is difficult to follow your logic when you make such far reaching statements.
ReplyDelete"Potash Corp and othe big biz in SK are good for everyone". You have been brainwashed. It is too bad because you actually sound like you have some brains. However, that statement is complete nonsense. Tell you what. Let's you and me set up the same deal as Wall wants to have with PotashCorp. Give me control of everything that you own. Cars, house, computers, clothes, etc. I will sell them for you and I will gladly give you 5 cents for each $1 of sales that I make.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't give me Brad Wall's very lame excuse that the NDP set up the royalty rates. When the former government set up the royalty structure, PotashCorp was paying 77,000,000 on less than 400,000,000 in profit. They now pay the same 77,000,000 on $1,800,000,000 profit.
We are being ripped off and you are defending it. So let me know when I can start selling all of your worldly possessions and I will quickly start giving you your nickels.
Have a nice day.
What have you ever done to make Potash Corp or any other biz a success, when it was a Crown as usual & typically it was a money pit. Now that it is a huge success all of a sudden you want more credit for what you did nothing for. We are in the middle of the current deal. When this royalty deal expires it will be re-examined and if demand for potash / oil / uranium (choose your resource) is crazy high like now and prices are through the roof then sure re-negotiate. If you are so smart why did you not want to renegotiate when nobody was buying potash 2 years ago? Did you and Link not see this coming? Look everyone agrees that as a business model the province should capitalize on any and all deals like this. We all agree with that. The only argument is timing, you and link want to do this NOW NOW NOW, the rest of us are OK with waiting until the right time. You all are using it to make political hay, so just relax.
ReplyDelete"you want more credit for what you did nothing for" What are you talking about? This is an issue of ownership of the potash resource and what amount of rent we charge PotashCorp to take it out of the ground for us. The taxpayers of Saskatchewan are not getting a fair return in view of the recent windfall profits the company is raking in. Shelve your idiotic ideology for one moment and stop being such a toady of big business. We own the potash and you are simply giving it away. Even delegates at SARM today were telling the Sask Party Ministers that we are not getting enough.
ReplyDeleteThey would know,,,,
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should spend 30 B and buy it back and let the unionized government workers run it, theres an idea.
You can't change a deal in the middle, how do you do business, oh right you want the gov to own everything.