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"As many of our members will be aware, there have been recent statements by certain politicians with regard to the possible sale of Saskatchewan's Crown Corporations... We firmly believe that selling off the Crowns or stopping them from competing with the private sector will be bad for both SaskTel and the employees that work there."
Two thoughts...
The spin is amateurish at best; certain politicians said certain things about certain things that may or may not happen now or in the future. And you all know who those certain people are who said those certain things.
Whisper campaign, anyone?
Secondly, that Crowns, with the resources of the entire government and their powers of taxation (which is enforceable at the end of a gun), should compete with private business, who then pay taxes to that same body, so that body can try to run them out of business?
Class warfare, anyone?
The CEP attitude is exactly the attitude that deters new private investment in Saskatchewan.
This is just plain wrong and the reason why small business, who pay the majority of the taxes in this province, simply don't trust the NDP and their union proxies.
The Regina Manifesto is alive and well and being practiced by the CEP.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
CEP Local 1-S Misinformation
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Don't worry Boogeyman. As a Local 1-S member AND a person who HATES the current NDP government, I can be happy to report that the union newsletters are not getting to the rank and file employees. The NDP's support is SOOOOOOO poor on the shop floors that the shop stewards have difficulty in passing out the bogus union literature.
No need to worry boogeyman, the word is sort of getting out to the employees, but they aren't buying the NDP's bunk.
Keepin' it real on the shop floors,
The Lord High Commissioner
Ah, Lord High Commissioner. My arch nemesis!
Here, for those who missed it the first time, is a repost of the information on Dan D'Autremont's reveal of the Sask Party's plan to dismantle the Crowns:
"In those areas where the Crowns continue to compete against private industry … that's an area where we may need to look at directing those Crown corporations in a different direction," D'Autremont said in an interview.
Source: CBC News
Initially, the veteran Sask. Party MLA told the Leader-Post he was wrong because he had been out of the country and didn't know the policy on ending competition with the private sector in areas like SecurTek has been changed "two or three weeks ago."
However, later Friday D'Autremont again contacted the Leader-Post and said he was wrong for a second time. Since February 2005, the Sask. Party policy is only to "review" competition and that policy wasn't recently changed, D'Autremont said.
Source: Regina Leader-Post
"Never has any discussion about winding down and reallocating staff happened. I'm telling you, never," Wall said.
"It's frustrating, it's a blunder on Dan's part because he's, I guess, trying to answer questions that he was prepared for or not prepared for and is literally making stuff up that I haven't heard talked about."
Source: CBC News
D'Autremont is:
- a founding and high-ranking member of the Sask Party;
- Vice Chair of the Crown and Central Agencies Committee;
- Deputy Critic for the major commercial Crown Corporations (Sask Power, Sask Tel, Sask Energy and SGI);
- Chair of the Crown and Central Agencies caucus committee.
Source: D'Autremont's website (offline due to the election, but a cached copy is still available through the Internet Archive)
Brad Wall would have you believe that D'Autremont, a senior member of his caucus and Chair of the Sask Party's Crown and Central Agencies Caucus Committee, did not know what he was talking about. In fact, he knew so little of what he was talking about that he made stuff up.
Either D'Autremont is a liar, or Wall is.
The Sask Party recently removed their "Code of Ethics" from their website -- which is fine, because they never followed it anyway. Please pay attention to the section reading "Members shall use care to avoid disseminating false information
and shall not knowingly do so." in the copy from the Internet Archive.
I would like to offer perhaps a different, but yet related, perspective on the issue of whether Saskatchewan Crown corporations should be sold (or not). After living in Calgary for over 6 years and having recently moved back to Saskatoon this year, I can speak first hand at the value and successes of a free and competitive economy. Although Calgary/Alberta is experiencing its share of growing pains, one can certainly conclude that the city/province are thriving and generating wealth well beyond what would be achieved through the interference of government Crown corporations (although I suppose Deron will (illogically) contend there is no way of knowing that without having Crown corporations compete with Alberta business).
So, I guess my main question is what is so wrong with the possibility of a Crown corporation being sold? I am not advocating that, at least not at the current time, any Saskatchewan Crown corporations should be sold. However, if a private business (whether publicly traded or not) were to offer to purchase, for example, a Saskatchewan Crown corporation for 2x the market value for the said Crown corporation, would it not be prudent to consider such an offer and evaluate the merits of it, not only from a market value perspective but also for the citizens of Saskatchewan? I don't know why everyone is so against the concept of, at the very least, evaluating whether certain Saskatchewan Crown corporations should be sold. I believe the government has a fiduciary duty to act on behalf of ALL Saskatchewan citizens and evaluating the pros and cons of selling/not-selling Crown corporations is certainly part of that responsibility. If Saskatchewan Crown corporations are going to be competing with private businesses, then, at the very least, they should be governed and evaluated on business principles with the goal of maximizing the value for its shareholders, the citizens of Saskatchewan.
deron,
As much as I apreciate your participation in this blog, we got your message the first time.
Your only position is getting a bit tiring.
Change it up a bit, or I'll start deleting your remarks.
That being said, I'll give you one more post regarding D'Autremont's comments.
Pick wisely as to what day you want to use it.
Deron,
You can talk all you want about Dan, but long and short the NDP is NOT getting support from their bedrock supporters; organized labour. Sure the union executive and some of their stewards might vote NDP, but the average rank and file employees will not vote that way.
Wait and see in 2 weeks!
From what I've been hearing, labour is very strongly behind the NDP in this election. So much for the shop floor, it seems.
With Wall claiming the Sask Party's "going to war" with the unions, and their policy on the Crowns that they're clearly trying to hide, labour has every right to be concerned about the disastrous changes a Sask Party government would bring.
deron,
Labour management is very much behind the NDP. There were 600 people from across SK at the SFL meeting today.
But that's only 600 votes.
I'm hearing that the rank and file are pissed off at labour management and they're going to do their own thing.
November 07th will prove who's right.
Deron,
Don't speak about topics you have no direct evidence of.
I am on the shop floor. The only supporters in labour are the stewards and executive, and in some cases the stewards are angry at the union.
Just because some SFL or UFCW person says the union employees are voting NDP does not mean it's true. These people are so delusional they think they will win this election.
The masses are PISSED and are tired of the crap!
You will be surprised Deron!
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