Readers offer their opinions on the Saskatchewan Party government and rural areas and the money spent by the provinces on federal legal challenges.
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Because the Saskatchewan Party and Alberta’s United Conservative Party have the support of rural voters, one might assume that their policies benefit rural areas.
Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota and recently announced as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, made some interesting comments on what benefits small towns and rural areas. “The two things that are core to small communities: school and hospital.”
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Walz commented on school vouchers “How are you going to get a private school in a town of 400? That’s not where the private school is going to be. The private school is going to be where it already is … These guys, they talk about how evil the public schools are. For many of us, public schools were everything. That was our path.”
On health care, the main Saskatchewan Party pitch to rural areas is the never-ending campaign against the NDP government of over 30 years ago. Perhaps we should ask what improvements have been made in health care in the last 17 years, and what are the plans for the future?
Is it more privatization? Is it endorsement of anti-science rhetoric, entertained by Premier Moe in Speers and peddled at an “Injection of Truth Town Hall” supported by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith of the Saskatchewan Party’s lookalike UCP?
If we want teachers and health care workers to live and work in rural areas, we need to support them and improve the structures within which they work, not hinder them with conspiracy theories and diversion of funding to private organizations.
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David Steele, Saskatoon
(The letter above was originally published in the Regina Leader-Post.)
Legals costs soar, health, education suffer
A recent letter in (the StarPhoenix) in defence of Justin Minister Bronwyn Eyre made me wonder about how much this government has spent on legal and court fees in the last few years.
I suspect the amount is in at least in the hundreds of thousands of dollars … if not in the millions of dollars. Somehow, when I look at the dire straits both education and health care are suffering, I question their priorities. In the interest of transparency, the costs they are incurring should be made public.
Pamela LaBelle, Regina
(The letter above was originally published in the Regina Leader-Post.)
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