Sask party wins!

[charliep]

Interesting article below. I note the comments about three quarters of the way down on CWB/market choice policy.

Fence-mending with Ottawa top of Premier Wall's agenda
Source: MH - Medicine Hat News
Nov 09 05:36 Page: A5
Section: General
Byline: CP Wire
THE CANADIAN PRESS
REGINA
Saskatchewan's next premier is already indicating his small-c conservative government will move to heal the fractures between his province and Ottawa.
Brad Wall, whose Saskatchewan Party won a majority of seats in Wednesday's provincial election, predicted his party's ties with the federal Conservatives will lead to a more "constructive" relationship with the federal government.
"We have a lot of contacts, certainly, with those who serve in the national government and the members of Parliament for this province," Wall said Thursday at his first formal news conference as premier-designate.
"I would expect that those would be an advantage."
Striking a measured tone, Wall left the door open to walking away from a constitutional challenge Lorne Calvert's NDP government filed over changes the Conservatives made to the federal equalization formula.
Saskatchewan has long maintained that it is short-changed by the way the transfer formula treats natural resource revenues. Before the election campaign, the NDP asked the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal to rule on whether the province has a case.
Wall supported the notion of a court action over equalization when the Liberals were in power in 2005, but became suspicious when the New Democrats waited to file their challenge until right before an election. He said his government will evaluate the legal opinions the NDP sought and then decide whether to proceed.

Wall also said his government will pull the province's support of a court appeal filed against the federal government by the lobby group Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board for its plan to eliminate the board's western barley marketing monopoly.
Both NDP governments in Saskatchewan and Manitoba had supported the court action, but Wall said he'll opt out. "We're a party that supports choice."

The Saskatchewan Party was born 10 years ago out of a fusion of Liberals and Tories who realized that an alliance of centre-right politicians was the only way to beat the NDP.
The party unofficially won 37 of 58 seats in the legislature in Wednesday's vote and took more than 50 per cent of the popular vote. The NDP took the other 21 seats and will sit in Opposition for the first time since 1991. The Liberals were shut out for the second consecutive term.

[jensend]

never mind, burbert. you might get further without the drivel and post something thought out. the fact is that there are no miracles to happen in sask. the infrastructure (what existed) needs a great deal of repair before much business can be done and i think alberta (and i lived there for more than forty years) has taught us not to leave the governing of the province to large corporations. raping and pillaging isn't going to help anybody but absentee, large shareholders.

[charliep]

Burbert

There is no issue on planet earth that has been studied more than the CWB starting with barley alternatives. Time has come for putting things into action. I suspect the giant iron machines you talk about have rubber tires so even you have adapted to new realities.

[cottonpicken]

The sask party was born because the word "criminals" popped into peoples heads when they heard the word "tories".

[skhadenuf]

That's partly true, but also what is true in my humble opinion is that had Melnychuk (leader of the Liberals) not so stupidly sided with the NDP to keep the NDP afloat, there likely would be a Liberal government in Regina by now. the Liberals that defected weren't stupid, they realized that they were dead politically because of Melnychuk, the far right like Hermanson, etc would never form government on their own so the unity of both has brought us here. the NDP governed like the federal liberals without any real opposition. Time will tell how the Sask Party will fair, but one thing is for sure every decent idea the NDP had over the last few years was stolen from the opposition, and other than that they had no ideas of their own.

[sumdumguy]

I agree with Skhadenuf. No one who was there will ever forget the Liberal/NDP wedding. Talk about sheep in wolf's clothing.

[freewheat]

The worst thing Devine did was to choose the 1980's to shoot for premier. The worst economic climate (recession), cheap oil, cheap potash, cheap uranium, killed his open for business policy. Romanow came in, and soon after economic times strengthened enabling him to balance the books. Now, we are in an economic climate in which my pet rooster and red green's nephew could balance the books.
I read a book about the devine years we all should read to get some insight into how poor the economy was, the good policies he brought in, and the challenges of the eighties.
My highways were a helluva lot better then than now, notwithstanding his over borrowing, and attempt to spend like Calvert. At least he stood for the farmer. Calvert? He stood for his unions... Devine spent money like most of my farmer neighbors, borrow, borrow, borrow, in a recession period. A no no.

[just_wondering]

re:Wall also said his government will pull the province's support of a court appeal filed against the federal government.
Why would Wall not have retained interveenor status, in the barley case and just stayed with the people who got him elected.
Any farmer who's single issue is the CWB would not have voted SK party anyways, and even then an election is 4 long years away.
Why do small c conservatives not govern like that?

[grassfarmer]

Jensend, you say "and i think alberta .... has taught us not to leave the governing of the province to large corporations. raping and pillaging isn't going to help anybody but absentee, large shareholders."

If only that were true - it seems to me there is plenty of raping and pillaging going on, certainly in agriculture and the resource sectors.

[parsley]

Anybody hear the radio interview with Brad Wall saying there would be a referendum on wheat?

I didn't, but was told about it.

Parsley