May 15, Date 2012

Saskatchewan NDP back Mulcairs attack on resources

Saskatchewan NDP strategist Erin Weir has revealed his party supports federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcairs assessment that the way to create manufacturing jobs in eastern Canada is to kill resource jobs in the west. In a column in the May 11 Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Weir called Mulcairs now infamous Dutch disease comments a balanced approach and said: The solution is to increase royalty rates. Weir was responsible for costing out the NDPs disastrous 2011 election platform, as noted in Murray Mandryks October 21, 2011 Star-Phoenix column NDP platform begins to resemble a wholesale shopping spree. The NDP platform that Mr. Weir endorsed prescribed the same bad medicine a massive increase in royalty rates that would have killed thousands of jobs in Saskatchewan, said Energy and Resources Minister Bill Boyd. Now, instead of standing up to Mulcairs attack on our resource sector, the NDP is now defending Mulcair and agreeing with his assessment the way to help job creation in the east is to kill jobs in the west. So has the NDP learned anything? No, said Boyd. Fortunately, Saskatchewan voters remember how the NDPs destructive economic prescriptions have cured our economy in the past, and they are not going to let it happen again.

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