The Editor:
In his March 18 Leader Post article, Murray Mandryk accuses the NDP of being 鈥渟tupid鈥� to bring up the fact the Sask. Party has been hell-bent on privatization. Stating that 鈥淏rad Wall has had eight years in power to sell off whatever he wanted yet hasn鈥檛.鈥�
Get your head out of the sand Murray.
Google 鈥淐rowns Wall privatized鈥�, and you will see he has privatized/sold some 56 pieces of Crowns. This is 56, many of which were money-making subsidiaries of SaskPower, SaskTel, SaskEnergy and SGI.
SaskTel alone has been forced to divest itself of Max and high speed internet services, conference call services, Navigata, Direct West, the Saskatoon Square building and the Hospitality Network.
Ever wonder why provincial park fees keep rising? Wall sells 23 park-owned cabins at Greenwater Lake and along with seasonal campsites in Cypress Hills Park; wood cutting, trail maintenance and cleaning visitor services were contracted out. Enforcement and compliance services at Sask. Landing 鈥� contracted out.
Brad Wall boasts of the changes he has made to healthcare. He has, such as privatizing 13 different health-care projects ranging from laundry service, day surgeries to care homes.
If Wall is returned to government and follows through on his Liquor Board store sales, every small community will not only lose two or more families, but will be left with valuable real estate and buildings that will be either sold cheaply to his friends, or abandoned.
I would say the NDP concerns are indeed genuine and not 鈥渙ld news.鈥�
Joyce Neufeld
Waldeck, Sask.聽
