I like guests saying: Past performance is still the best indication of future expectations. The following is a brief history of past performance of the Leader of the Saskatchewan Party.
May 1, 1984 – August 31, 1984
Ministerial Assistant to the Minister of Education: Pat Smith
Assisted the Minister who was later implicated in the booze scandal. (Saskatoon StarPhoenix: January 9, 1992)
January 1985 - March 1985
Appointed to the "Minister's Task Force on Youth Employment" by Grant Devine's Minister of Justice: Gary Lane
Served on a committee to increase youth employment; in the following five years 14,600 youth left Saskatchewan and the youth employment figures plummeted by l5%. (Statistics Canada)
May 1987 – February 1988
Member's Assistant to Conservative MP for Swift Current/Maple Creek: Geoff Wilson
Worked for the Brian Mulroney Conservatives in Ottawa. 1988
Co-founder of the Alliance for the Future of Young Canadians
Helped start a pro free-trade group that lobbied corporations for donations and organized rallies.
February 17, 1988 – November 1, 1989
Ministerial Assistant to the Minister in charge of privatizing the Crowns: Graham Taylor
Assisted with implementing the privatization agenda of the Devine government.
Contact person for the Devine Government for the sale of SaskEnergy and Saskatchewan Potash Corporation.
(Government Press Release 89-930: June 20, 1989)
November 1, 1989 – October 21, 1991
Senior Ministerial Assistant to the Associate Minister of Economic Development and Tourism: John Gerich
Sent memos ordering booze at the taxpayers' expense. (Regina Leader-Post: March 23, 2006)
Assisted one of the Ministers who was convicted of fraud; testified on his behalf; Minister was sentenced to two years in jail. (Saskatoon StarPheonix: January 30, 1997)
April 10, 1991
Candidate for Grant Devine Conservative Party nomination in Swift Current
Lost the nomination. (Swift Current Sun: March 25, 1991)
1992 – 1995
Project Manager, Country Music Hall of Fame
Received $150,000 in taxpayers' money to run the Hall of Fame. (Calgary Herald: September 26, 1991)
Ran it for three years.
Declared bankruptcy.(Regina Leader-Post: September 27, 1995 )
1996 - 1999
City Bureaucrat: Swift Current
1999 - 2004
Sask Party MLA
Various critic roles including calling for the privatization of Crowns and gutting health and safety legislation.
2004 - Present Sask Party Leader
On the basis of the above, would you trust this individual to run our province?