Friday, October 14, 2011

On diverging tracks

The next time we hear as received media wisdom that it's politically toxic to abandon a huge share of Saskatchewan's resource wealth to the corporate sector will be the first. And I've yet to hear anybody make the case that devolving provincial resources to, say, municipal governments is a political death wish.

But apparently Murray Mandryk is convinced that proposing to share part of Saskatchewan's resources with the First Nations who have lived in our province the longest (and been rewarded with far worse standards of living than the rest of the province) is an unforgivable political sin.

Fortunately, Saskatchewan's voters are the ones to say whether or not he's right. And I wonder whether a focus on the NDP's effort to include First Nations in Saskatchewan's growth (rather than dismissing their concerns as the Sask Party and its federal cousins are so eager to do) may be exactly what's needed to get voters asking which party is actually proposing the more fair division of our province's resources.

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