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Give this to Premier Brad Wall: His forewarning of deficits for this year and next is at least a step up from the nonsense he dropped at last year’s gathering of municipal politicians.

However, whether it’s that much of a step up — or even legal under the province’s balanced budget legislation — might be debatable.

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At last year’s Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) gathering, Wall declared “everything was on the table” and floated the pre-budget trial balloon that communities might not even get their full percentage point (20 per cent of all tax revenue collected) of the provincial sales tax.

As many suspected at the time, it was just a way for Wall and his Saskatchewan Party to make a crappy (and relatively dishonest) budget seem better than it actually was, given that it refused to properly account for its $700 million in borrowing as a deficit.

And now we continue to learn how crappy last year’s budget was.