Dear Editor

How do you define incompetence?

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Consider this: spend more than $3 million buying buses and upgrading assets for the Saskatchewan Transportation Company in 2016, and then shut it down in 2017.

That’s right. The Sask. Party government authorized spending $605,000 on new buses and $2.4 million on an upgrade to the Regina maintenance facility in the 2016 fiscal year. The year before that, it purchased four full-size passenger coaches and four trailers.

This ridiculous waste of taxpayers’ money meets my definition of incompetence. But, even more concerning is that government will no doubt sell off the assets from our provincial bus company, the one that has served Saskatchewan rural communities for 70 years, to private businesses at fire-sale prices. No doubt this is a textbook case of incompetence, but also says a lot about who benefits and who loses at the hands of the Sask. Party and this year’s provincial budget.

Sid Wonitowy

Yorkton