Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Government needs to care

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In the midst of a pandemic, one would expect our government to take up the opportunit­y to implement a budget to spur the slowly opening economy to the benefit of Saskatchew­an people. Instead, we bear witness to a government continuing to offer tax breaks to corporatio­ns while bemoaning a $2.4-billion “pandemic deficit.”

This is nothing new for this government.

Remember the move to sell off the Crowns a few years back, resulting in the loss of our provincial bus service? Are we to expect more of our Crowns to be on the block again to repair Sask. Party fiscal mismanagem­ent?

Does anyone recall how the MLAS took a 3.5-per-cent wage cut, then demanded public sector workers do the

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