Under the Wall government we went from having $2.3 billion in the bank to a $1.05 billion deficit in less than 2 years
"We do not have a gang or a violence issue in our provincial correctional system."
- Corrections Minister Darryl Hickie
Wall Government breaks another promise...
December 1, 2009
It was one of the Saskatchewan Party's big promises; coming up with a new way to share money with the province's municipalities; one that was tied to the economy and one which was predictable, so local politicians weren't just relying on the whims of any one finance minister. The solution? To share one percentage point of the money raised by the provincial tax, worth about 220 million dollars. The promise was to be fully implemented this coming spring. But now Finance Minister Rod Gantefoer says maybe not: "Quite simply, if the revenue isn't there to allow it..." -CBC News Radio




