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The long-lasting bloom is now off the Saskatchewan鈥檚 Party鈥檚 rose and the governing party MLAs, as well as the general population, may now remove the rose-coloured glasses as well.

The time has arrived, after seven years of unprecedented economic growth, for the current government to put their coping skills to the test.

Faced with another deficit budget and little hope of things turning more positive in the near future the Sask. Party, Wall and the senior ministers will probably be given much more careful scrutiny by the general population who may be fearing a runaway train wreck in the making.

With a huge majority in the Legislative Assembly, the temptation for this government to continue with a regime of buy now, pay later (and pay a lot more much later), may still be in place.

We hope this isn鈥檛 the case.

The time is ripe for the Wall squad to pull in, while not pulling away, from the electorate. With their huge popularity in the polls, they can pull it off with a continued self-effacing attitude. After all, we are all in this together and there are no Harry Potter-like magic wands to wave around to make bad things go away quickly.

With declining values on oil, uranium and potash all at the same time, this becomes a triple whammy for the Saskatchewan economy, and as it always has been in the past, there isn鈥檛 a whole lot anyone can do about it since these evaluations are made by a global economy. There is no made-in-Saskatchewan pricing policy or edict when it comes to our natural resources. We may bargain, but in the end, we鈥檙e forced to take what we can get.

We have been given a warning that transformational change is on the way. It wasn鈥檛 talked about during the spring election campaign, but then, what political party would want to bring that up when votes are being sought?

Transformational changes on the education and health-care fronts are almost assured. To their credit, the government鈥檚 administration is promising there will be many opportunities for public input, once the process begins.

What the public doesn鈥檛 know yet, though, is just what is going to hit the table in terms of proposed changes. In other words, what are these transformational change proposals going to look like?

We are a vast province in terms of geographic landscapes but, we are a small province in terms of population. We are a large province in terms of resource wealth, but we are a small province in terms of political influence.

So, our provincial government is faced with a new economic reality and we have to place some trust in them and their ability to test their previously untested abilities to manage an economy that is no longer robust, but, not bust.

We hope they have the moxie to make tough decisions, even if it might cost them a few percentage points on the popularity scale, after all, politics may be a popularity contest during an election year, but it can be a hard slog through a lot of mud-filled economic sloughs the rest of the time, as Wall and his cohorts are about to find out.

There is also the knowledge that the next election is four years away, which means they may have to drop the popularity props and pick up the shovels and mops that represent the economic and political muddy realities that face them for at least the next two years. 聽聽