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Bill 40 eliminates any public consultation process for those types of action as well, so long as a single step or set of transactions doesn’t affect majority or controlling interests of an ongoing Crown. And that leaves open all kinds of options for Wall to hand over varying degrees of control and ownership of our Crowns while shrouding any dealings in total secrecy.

What’s more, many of the mechanisms to undermine public enterprise have been lumped under the Saskatchewan Party’s past self-proclaimed partnerships. Which means that we can predict what Wall has in mind for SGI, SaskTel and other Crowns exploring “partnerships” from the previous dealings handled with the same messaging.

For example, the Saskatchewan Party’s controversial changes to liquor retailing were presented as SLGA “partnerships” with private sellers — including both existing offsales, and new retailers.

We knew from the beginning that jobs would be cut at the SLGA stores which were being shut down. But we’ve learned more recently that the layoffs don’t end there: Additional jobs are being cut even at SLGA stores which remain open.

Those are being spun as having always been expected, and arising solely out of changes to wholesaling rules rather than the store selloff. But there’s an obvious problem with that talking point: Whatever additional attacks on SLGA jobs the Saskatchewan Party and its partners expected due to the wholesaling changes were kept secret at the time.