Is everyone keeping track?
2% drop in sales tax – check
New February stat holiday – check
$1.5 million ‘!’ – check
SGI – $180 rebate – check
Reduced long distance rates – check
12% SGEU payoff – check
So what’s next? A free Saskatchegnome! for every yard?
That’s just in the past few weeks, and I know I’ve missed a few.
Kate are you selling these gnomes?
I want one for my dog.
You mean a 1% gst tax cut run on as an election promise and a 2% pst cut plus several million in handouts, overpaid contracts, and an extra holiday in the 4th year of a term.
…I don’t see a difference either….lmao
I’m betting on June or October.
I wonder if Kate would like to comment on those actions the Sask Party has taken that indicate an election may be in the offing?
SaskParty doesn’t call elections.
Kate, does a Saskatchegnome! come with its own security moat?
Political attack ads being premiered for pleb consumption – Check!
… SGI Rebate cheque donated to the Sask Party? CHECK
12% raise to the NDP-SGEU with a $1000 signing bonus (and probably other perks as well).
And is this the same Stephen that cannot differentiate Pakistan from Iran?
When the election does come (not if but when), you can be sure the unwashed masses will forget everything but the last few presents from Big Brother. Never mind the fact that the dippers are spending the taxpayer’s money to give out the “presents”. Voters have such short memory.
The Sask Party is hoping the voters have a short memory.
Gnome is .jpg not .html, the link looks broken.
good insight maryjane….
To add to your comment I also think the Provincial NDP and the Liberals are also hoping for short memories in the voters. (witness the current vote buying skit Kate talks about, and remember that a vote for Karwacki’s liberal predecessor turns into a vote for the NDP)
Other stuff to remember.. might be a campfire tax, opening parks after may long, pulling hundred of millions out of the crowns then raising rates, Fiscal stabilization fund (read -> loan), SPUDCO, Hour of work legislation (read-> job killing monster), Rural land taxes, P.A. and Meadow Lake Pulp mills.Tommy Douglas movie and the Regina film company.
Does anyone remember Lorne going to Ottawa to get an equalization deal from Goodale?? I remember he wasn’t comming back without a signed document a while back…..
Of course that’s just off the top of my head. I am sure there is more.
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About the only parties (read -> lobby groups) that are hoping for a longer voter memory are the New Green Alliance and the Western Independence. Neither of which would have gotten more much more than 1% of the vote in the last election even if they ran a full slate of candidates. Neither has a real platform beyond their lobby group issue.
”Other stuff to remember.. might be a campfire tax”…
True enough, but that all took place within the context of a generally well managed economy. The only thing to rival the disaster that was the last Conservative government in SK was the Great Depression, or perhaps the Black Plague.
“generally well managed economy” aka the price of oil went up 700%…..
Devine in comparison: “Devine governed during some of the worst droughts since the “dirty thirties”. The price of oil fell from 19 to 9 dollars a barrel” (not to mention the NEP at the time)
provincial debt is up since Calvert took over….
How many debacles like SPUDCO, Retx.com, Craig Wireless, Channel Lake, Coachman Insurance, mega bingo, Persona, Land registry system, Film company bailouts (sorry cant remember which one), pulp mills, etc etc.
“And so, when you hear me ask the question “how could we have lost 2,600 jobs last year in the middle of a boom…how could we have lost 3,800 people in the last year in the middle of a boom while even Manitoba grew by 3,400…..
When you hear me ask the question how is it possible that 2,551 people between the ages of 15 and 29 left our province last year leaving us with the lowest percentage of people between the ages of 20 and 64 in the country…
You know it’s a rhetorical question.” – Brad Wall
Yeah… the NDP are remarkable managers….
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on a side note… THAT biggest political scandal in Saskatchewan history only cost us less than a million dollars. (and several people went to jail) Stealing is bad. Why is it that millions in mismanagement in government (several shown above) are rarely punished electorally let alone judicially?????
hmmm…………
You got your history wrong there barcs, The conservatives drove SK to the edge of bankruptcy. Where do you get less than $1 million?
And of course you know the only thing keeping us in debt are subsidies to Conservative voting farmers.
wait… Your telling me that the highest subsidies that the governing NDP pays is to people that do not and will not vote for them???
“the only thing keeping us in debt”
I do though remember balanced budget legislation brought in by the Rommanow government in about 95-96…. why does the auditor general say we didn’t have balanced budgets in 2002,03,04 (didn’t find data for 2005)
I find it laughable that you want to blame a government that hasn’t been in power for almost 20 years for all the problems of this decade. I don’t deny the history of the sask tories…. but I won’t be brainwashed into overlooking the NDP record either.
Andrew you took the words right out of my mouth. I’ll see your “SGI Rebate cheque donated to the Sask Party”. and raise you a letter to the NDP MP (Marx, Engl, or something like that)thanking him for the money and letting him know I am putting the money to good use.
Add to that list:
– An NDP love-in held this past weekend in Saskatoon under the guise of the 2007 Saskatchewan Youth Summit where 475 young people in the province were brought together to discuss issues of the day / hear about the greatness that is taking place in this province from NDP cabinet ministers / Premier Calvert. This extravaganza was complete with Orange and black powerpoint templates and orange lighting at the evening social. All of this was offered free of charge to young attendees and thrown together in less than two months time so that it conveniently occured now. (www.saskyouthsummit.ca)
– New advertisements touting the great things happening in Saskatchewan debuting today – Super Bowl Sunday
I am betting an election called in late April – shortly after people receive their SGI cash, with an election to be held in late May.
Andrew, Wade. That is priceless. I now know what to do with my Ralph bucks… whoops I mean Dipper Dollars.
Kevin I think you are too early by a month. Too many people at home. The NDP knows that their hard core is more willing to vote during holiday time than the Saskparty core. Many softer voters will just go to their resort and forget to vote. Its a summer vote prediction for me… Mid June
PA Pulp and Paper sold to DOMTAR. An announcement coming soon.
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