Stop it Damn You for outting out those links. Don't you know you went three too many? Heads will explode and it's all your cold conservative hearts fault. ;)

Lorne & the rest of the commie gang here must be itching to put that $800 mil to good use. With that kind of money to spend on media training & PR work we will never get rid of them.

I am off to set up my own Media Training company, grease some commie palms & offer jobs to some NDP MLA's family members. Winter in the Cayman Islands, summer in the Mediteranean. Life will be wonderful.

Go Lorne!!

I lived in Ottawa for a while in the mid 70's. I crossed paths with many civil servants during social gatherings. I must tell you that Ottawa is a great place to live or raise a family. The point is that I recall a Senior Dep't of Agriculture recent retiree comment on the Diefenbaker Dam. I quote directly from memory. "Dry land farmers they are and dry land farmers they will remain." he said condescendingly. That is the last I heard or thought of the issue. It seems socialism has come along to fill the gap.

Smells like a Gigatext- but it tastes like PORK!

Ritz also made it clear that it would be narrowminded for the GOC to hold this little tirade against the people of Saskatchewan. Love how the MSM angle is to foster acrimony and suggest retribution could be in order.

What the Premier and the media still don't seem to understand is that this PM isn't Paul Martin, and this government isn't the Liberal machine, brown envelope, squeaky wheel de-greaser. I have no doubt that the PM and Premiers will meet to hammer out an equalization agreement. But it will not be precipitated by others agendas and it certainly won't be because a declining provincial premier is desparate to be seen doing something, *anything*, important.

If I were the Prime Minister, I'd tell Lorne to call an election, and once we can be sure you won't blow the money on spuds...

(or blow it on stupid money losing investments hidden by crown corps like Sasktel)
(or use it to subsidize ridiculous wages to "clerks" in your liquor stores)
(or blow money on press conferences to announce the openings of ethanol plants that were a figment of the imagination)
(or blow money on PR lessons for my blatantly incompetent ministers)
(or blow wads of cash on any other number of assinine initiatives)
What was my point? I lost track. Oh yeah, I agree with Kate - I wouldn't give SK any more money until we see someone new in office that won't piss it away.

Don't give it to Lorne, Mr. Harper. It would never reach the farm gate. Independent small farmers have been run out of business by the irresponsible, and vendictive actions of Dipper type governments (sane farmers do not ever vote Dipper) in Sask. The gov't workers don't need any more $$ for warming chairs (just increases toxic emissions) but the people who feed them do - send out cheques to independent business people who have been bankrupt by Dipper deviousness.

Culvert wants Sask to be one big state farm like Stalin did in Russia. He would take glee (and his spleen might explode. I don't think that there is enough up there for his head to explode, Fergy - but it IS a nice thought!) in seeing every pesky, independent minded person in the province of Sask. run out of business.

Call an election Cull vert. I dare you.

Govt. is like the Insite Needle Exchange users, they are addicted to wasting your money. :)

Junkies for money, and sex for free.

Hey wasn't that a song?

Or was it,"Money for nothing, the cheques are free."

In any case, the poor souls at Insite need education and job skills, not a junkies handout to confirm their behaviour.

gives new meaning to the term 'pork barrel'

To paraphrase Trudeau (pih-TOOEY), the state has no place in the boardrooms of the nation.

It must be so much fun to do these little experiments with other peoples' money! And consequence-free, too!

"Farmers continue to grow low-value, traditional grain crops." (Lake Diefenbaker irrigation project)

http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch6en/conc6en/vonthunen.html

Why would they expect producers to change? Adding infrastructure without adding markets (ie large city to cell high value stuff to close by (low spoilage), similar industries near the actual market (lower transport cost)

You keep telling us to run the farm like a business then you are surprised when we do??

Unless Saskatchewan eventually gains people......

It's times like this when I begin to appreciate Ralph Klein and am extremely grateful to be Albertan.

do you think maybe Ralph would come out of retirement and help us out a bit.....wouldn't that be great

It is great to see a Sask. resident call it like the rest of us see it!

PMSH wastes taxpayers money and house time "keeping an election promise on SSM" which he knew would never pass yet refuses to acknowledge the election promise about equalization. The twelve SK MP's ignore questions or blame others every time this is brought up - it is time they remeber all the yelling and footstomping they did in opposition on this issue and stand up for the province.
Even the far from from left wing Leader Post editorials are siding with the province. Instead of waiting for a politically opportune time the feds should keep the promise made in the heat of the election.

If you know he'll waste your resouce revenues why elect the terd?

In the very worst case wouldn't you rather see this locally generated wealth "pissed away" locally then in Quebec ...which needs Sask. resource wealth like a welfare addict needs another DVD player.

At least some of the cash will circulate locally.

I just want to see the Feds out of the business of using the equalization funtion to raid the revenues of exclusive constitutional provincial jurisdictions.

I say Steve deliver on that promise and it goes double for taking his mitts off Alberta's resource revenues through equalization.

I'f you don't like local government pissing away your provincial resources FIRE THEM...but don't allow the feds in to steal what is yours.

kevink...I'd say a real waste of taxpayers money was the power play Martin did when so called 'representaives' of Canadians had a so-called 'democratic' vote in the HoC, and came up with a 'so-called' solution to the 'so-called' inequality of a small special interest group.The fact that Harper did what he promised he would do, based on the principles of free vote in the HoC, is very responsible leadership.
Isn't this a discussion about responsible spending of tax payers money,equalisations payments not the same sex issue?

Calvert has increased provincial program spending by 2.3 billion dollars. Thats 3 times the 800 million that he wants from the feds. I don't know about you but my life isn't 3 times better than it was in 2001. 800 million will only help Lorne Calvert and the NDP government.

I still think that Saskatchewan will never get a sniff of this money as long as Calvert is in power.

Watch how fast things change if we get a new government.

Why would Harper want to make Calvert look good?

In otherwords the federal is blackmailing us!!?? And I should vote Tory why!!?? The NDP brought us,Stat Holidays,OT,sick benefits,disability,CWB,WCB,egg marketing board,beef marketing board,minimum wage, pork marketing board,milk marketing board,medicare and for you Christians out there Christian values of helping one another. Now tell me what any Tory gov't has done worth noting?? As you all know not much.

How much money do you think the province has? Should we all get a 400.00 cheque? Should we bleed the coffers dry and give the farmers a handout. Most crop insurance is subsidized by us lowly taxpayers(People who get a T-4). You tories devided us because that's all you can do. You have crappy policies that would break treasury. You are not honest and you manipulate the people by telling lies about your true motives. How many billions have you promised farmers? Your own buddies in Ottawa have turned their back on Sask and you do nothing about it. You are full of baloney and you're more crooked than a winding stream. I remember the Divine years and you're no different.

ok4ua:

If we face north and look to our left we can see what a Tory government has done. IT CREATES JOBS!!!!!!!! IT PROMOTES HIGHER WAGES BY CREATING A BOOMING JOB MARKET!!!!! THIS MEANS IF YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR JOB OR PAY, RATHER THAN COUNTING ON YOUR UNION TO GET YOU A 2% WAGE INCREASE YOU CAN GO TO THE BUSINESS NEXT DOOR TO YOU AND GET A 10% OR 20% INCREASE BECAUSE THEY NEED EMPLOYEES AND ARE WILLING TO PAY FOR THEM!!!!! THIS MEANS I CAN WORK HARD TO GET AHEAD WITHOUT PAYING FOR YOU TO SIT ON YOUR ASS, WATCH OPRAH & EAT BONBONS ALL DAY!!!!! UNIONS AND MARKETING BOARDS ARE FOR PEOPLE WITHOUT THE DRIVE OR DESIRE TO DO THINGS FOR THEMSELVES!!!!!!!!

Any other questions?

I feel better.

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Sorry for the language Kate.

[No, you weren't. Otherwise you'd have respected the rules of this site, and not posted it, thereby creating extra work for me in cleaning up your trash. - Ed]

Hey Free: I think we need to yell louder.

ok4ua has been dealing with the marajuna board again I think.

First he claims that the tories have promised to break the treasury to help the farmers then claims they turned their back on Saskatchewan.

"You are not honest and you manipulate the people by telling lies about your true motives." --- An unfortunately not uniquely but still mostly liberal trait.

The NDP had very little to so with such national policies like CWB, an the various marketing boards. Most were set up by farm groups in cooperation with the government of the day (When was the last time the NDP had a federal government???)

Christian values of helping one another. (Apparently the religious right is evil... but the religious left only benefits all of mankind???

minimum wage (that noone earns in Alberta because there aren't enough people to fill the jobs)

medicare (which started ironically in a small corner of Saskatchewan under the right wing. The NDP did bring the (stolen) idea to the province and the country)

Stat Holidays, OT, sick days, disability, WCB.... All of which exist in every developed nation. Even the US where even the lefties are evil righties....

Stat holidays are just days that I trade to my employer for a holiday I can take when I want rather then when the government wants me too stay home. Sick days? my employees don't get them. They are sick? they stay/go home at their convenience (don't make the rest of my guys sick). I don't give away a bunch of days a year they feel entitled to use as holidays.

The NDP policys are mostly there to screw up normal give and take between people by regulating everything to the last 1/2 a penny and down to the exact second.

I don't need them to run my life for me. or use my money to run others lives for them.

You've listed off a bunch of things (some of which) the NDP brought us. Keep going I'll stop you when you get to something good.

In opposition, the conservatives moved that Sask. get the same consideration as NL and NS. The motion was defeated by the bloc and the liberals. The minority govt. could at least move this again. I emailed Ralph Goodale and got a reply. I can't even get an answer from our present MPs.

Isn't Calvert also promising to cut provincial sales tax? By two points? Or am I mixing this up with another province. but if he is, why does he need the money from Ottawa )a.k.a. taxpayers of Canada)?

Because it is election time in about a year in Sask.

The more money he gets from Ottawa the more money he has to bribe us to keep him in. ex) tax cut

The Man

You are correct in saying that he lowered the PST.

In October the PST went from 7% to 5%,which doesn't help when you are arguing for more money from Ottawa.

I wish Calvert would just let it be until the federal budget comes out,his begging junkets are getting embarassing.