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It’s not as if the NDP doesn’t have a point about the need for a Saskatchewan potash royalty review … even if it’s a little late and a lot hypocritical to now call for one.

It was, after all, the last NDP administration that validated the current industry-favourable potash royalty structure and that opted for an even more favourable royalty structure in oil. Potash royalty review? Insuring the people got the maximum return on the resources they owned? Not a big priority for the NDP while in government.

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Nevertheless, the potash royalty review NDP Leader Ryan Meili is now championing isn’t just what his own party forebearers should have done. It’s what the Saskatchewan Party government should have been doing a decade ago when then-economy minister Bill Boyd was boasting of $2 billion in annual potash revenue. Imagine the rainy day fund we could have had.

“You’re going to want to make sure that whatever is happening is to the best interests of Saskatchewan people. It’s unlikely that the right decision would result in less money for us,” Meili said Monday of the Sask. Party government’s plan to shelve a review.