Q. In 1944, Saskatchewan got their first one of these.
A. I was on the highway so I couldn’t call in, but in any case I wouldn’t have guessed it. Some people tried war brides, credit unions, telephones [bad guess], and first socialist government [CCF, but wasn't the answer they wanted]. The first oil well for the province was first drilled in 1944, and to this day we can’t get the Conservative Prime Minister to agree that we deserve the same resource-deal that Alberta gets. Well, he agrees when he’s campaigning, but the radio reporters just couldn’t get him to say that plainly today when he was visiting the province. I liked Murray Wood’s comment that he hopes Oscar on Corner Gas is chewing a strip off the PM (during his cameo appearance this season) for being slow to let Saskatchewan keep the (oil) resource money that is constitutionally ours.
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I went up to Rose Valley today through Foam Lake, where I saw the destroyed elevators from a massive blaze in early August. The 310 highway north of Foam Lake has been utterly destroyed and I will not use it again, because it’s half converted to rough gravel/pavement. There’s one way to kill off tourism to Fishing Lake…
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wade | 01-Sep-06 at 8:57 pm | Permalink
This was an issue dating back to the Chretien era. Do not just blame the Conservatives. If you want progress eliminate this, welfare enabling, program altogether.
Ashley | 03-Sep-06 at 12:06 am | Permalink
Wade, it’s an issue dating back to 1982 if it was made in the modern constitution, or more likely it wasn’t sorted out properly whenever Alberta got their energy deal.