Your union leadership holds you in contempt and doesn't think you are very bright. So they think they can tell you anything and that you'll believe it.
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In 2010, in the province of Saskatchewan, our union and the provincial NDP stood solidly together to defeat the proposed takeover of the Potash Corp of Saskatchewan in November. By our collective lobbying and pushing of both the Saskatchewan government of Brad Wall of the Harper Conservatives, the federal government at least temporarily stopped the takeover.
Wall, who was an integral member of the Conservative government that privatized PCS in the 1990s for a little more than $600-million (the corporation is now worth more than $40-billion), made an eleventh hour decision to oppose the deal. So too did the federal Conservatives who ran a risk of losing many of their MPs had the PCS deal gone through.
Together the Saskatchewan NDP and the members of our union and communities made the Harper and Wall government’s blink. Today the NDP trails the Saskatchewan party by just four percentage points and the Harper Conservatives are losing political ground.
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An eleventh hour decision? The NDP trails the Saskatchewan Party by just four percentage points?
This isn't just spin. These are out and out falsehoods from union leadership to their membership.
There are mountains of evidence that the facts and the timeline supported by this media release are completely false. If you are a citizen of Saskatchewan who witnessed the BHP story play out, you know the truth and it isn't contained in this media release.
The one question I have is how did Mr. Hunt come to his factually incorrect conclusions? Were they made up on his end, or were they spun by unions and the NDP?
I've been telling you that NDP provincial campaign manager Dale Schmeichel has been promoting the fact that the NDP are only 5% behind the Saskatchewan Party, which has been disproven poll after poll. Yet, Mr. Hunt states a similar fact. Coincidence?
This is another shining example of why union members should be very wary of their leadership, and how union leadership will say anything to influence their own members because they don't think they are smart enough to know the difference.
Union members deserve better!
Monday, January 10, 2011
Note to Saskatchewan USW Members
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If I hadn't studied the history of the CCF/NDP and knew the great efforts they have made to cover up their numerous past failures and disgraces (Ever hear of the Dore Lake Pulp Mill?) I might have been surprised by the audacity displayed by MR. Hunt. But, I have studied the history of the CCF/NDP and know that Mr. Hunt’s blatant lying is standard procedure for CCF/NDP. In fact, the CCF/NDP lie so much that they believe their own lies to be fact.
Even just 20 years ago, without the public forums on the internet and the likes of Murray Mandryk “reporting” the news, Mr. Hunt would have gotten away with this rewriting of history. He won't get away with it today.
If you ever think the time you spend blogging on this site and others is a waste of time, think again.
As I've said in the not too distant past - I hope that it's decades before the NDP return to power again. Not that I necessarily want the SK Party to rule that entire time, because sometimes governments do need to be held accountable, just that the NDP NOT be in power for that time.
The longer the NDP are out of power, the weaker their grip will be as Saskatchewan's "Natural Governing Party".
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