Mr. Harper takes Saskatchewan for Granted – Again!

Our province is going through a rough patch.  It started when high potash prices didn’t materialize as expected, punching a $2 billion hole in provincial revenues.  And then we were drowned in the worst spring seeding conditions in history. Over 85% of Saskatchewan’s farmland was affected.  Some areas got more than three-times normal precipitation.  Between [...]

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Renew your membership today

Our Party’s membership rules were harmonized this year, making renewal much easier. Liberals in all provinces now pay the same $10 membership fee, with the membership cycle now based on the calendar year. That means if you joined the Liberal Party of Canada for one year, between January 1st and August 31st of this year, [...]

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Four Important Farm Issues In The Spotlight

Before the House of Commons finished its spring sitting last week, four agricultural issues were brought before Parliament by the Liberal Opposition. Most urgently, we asked about the worst spring seeding situation to hit prairie grain producers ever in history.  About 30% of the crop remains unseeded, and what is in the ground is getting [...]

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Mr. Harper’s Billion Dollar Boondoogle

Canadians are aghast at the orgy of Conservative spending on meetings planned for later this month involving countries in the G-8 and G-20. The leaders of these countries are coming to Canada, and that’s good. But the Harper government has so botched the arrangements that Canadian taxpayers are stuck with close to $1.5 billion in [...]

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Conservative Junk-Mail Finally Prohibited

RALPH GOODALE’S REPORT A weekly commentary by the Member of Parliament for Wascana Is there more space in your mail-box lately?  Maybe it’s because you’re getting less junk-mail from Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. Pushed by the Liberal Official Opposition, the House of Commons has finally prohibited the use of Parliamentary budgets to pay for the deluge [...]

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