At least he better than his mentor

[SASKFARMER3]

Mustard wow NDP math. Let's look again east to Manitoba wow NDP for years highest per capita debt province some 6 times higher!
Then west to Alberta I can't even comment she's a idiot!
So mustard this is your party!
Never again Saskatchewan!

[Oliver88]

While Saskatchewan lowered debt.....Manitoba had other ideas.

[LWeber]

CANSIM TABLE
Geography*= Saskatchewan*
Balance sheet*= Net financial debt

1982 -121 PC
1983 214 PC
1984 716 PC
1985 1,214 PC
1986 1,969 PC
1987 3,421 PC
1988 4,073 PC
1989 4,378 PC
1990 4,996 PC
1991 5,239 NDP
1992 8,647 NDP
1993 9,391 NDP
1994 10,974 NDP
1995 11,083 NDP
1996 11,046 NDP
1997 9,776 NDP
1998 9,890 NDP
1999 10,017 NDP
2000 10,037 NDP
2001 9,147 NDP
2002 9,632 NDP
2003 9,877 NDP
2004 10,134 NDP
2005 9,236 NDP
2006 8,669 NDP
2007 8,277 NDP

[LWeber]

Left wing math:

"Yes he started out paying down debt that by the way was a carryover from Grant."

[mustardman]

Larry your missing cost of borrowing there were some high interest years there.
I think we were only paying the interest on the Devine debt and not Able to bring the principal down much

[seabass]

I can't believe there is a debate/discussion about this. The numbers speak for themselves. Just look at Manitoba and Ontarios increased debt over the last 10 years. The increased dependants on government assistance is incredible. Try taking these handouts away from these people now. People think they are owed a living now. This is the monster socialist governments create. Unsustainable!

[sumdumguy]

Devine and Wall had different objectives. Devine, despite the economic obstacles, built to generate future wealth as Bucket described (but missed the cow-calf program) and maybe more. I have great respect for Wall, though I don't think we have seen any visionary wealth-generating accomplishments -do you. I don't like the debt of the football stadium nor the fact that overpasses and new ring road are being built by French company when the oil facefall has left so many unemployed. Some moght say, "small potatoes!"

[LWeber]

This table is Net financial debt ... not net financial debt ..before or after interest costs.

During the NDP reign debt went from 5.239 billion to a high of 11.083 billion - an increase of 5.884 and ended at 8.277 billion - an increase of 3.281 billion.

Blaming it all on Devine is bullshit.

[LWeber]

Larry your missing cost of borrowing there were some high interest years there.
I think we were only paying the interest on the Devine debt and not Able to bring the principal down much

Dunno if this will work...

[tweety]

what's the diff between Net financial debt and net financial debt?

Sorry if dumb q. Not a finance guy.