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Premier Brad Wall has again doubled down on the Global Transportation Hub scandal in the hope of putting a lid on it.

It just might work.

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There again, it could also cost the Saskatchewan Party its most treasured asset — the good name of Brad Wall.

It all comes down to one of many questions that provincial auditor Judy Ferguson is now not answering.

While introducing Vol. 2 of her 2016 report on Thursday, Ferguson — unprompted — said all GTH questions would be off limits, ostensibly because the GTH matter is before the legislative assembly’s public accounts committee and she needs “to respect the process.”

This was passing strange for three reasons.

1) As an independent officer of the legislature, Ferguson answers to no one. As she also acknowledged Thursday she can provide answers as she chooses.

2) The process “to be respected” — one in which Sask. Party MLAs have done everything in their power to ensure past and present government, Crown and GTH public servants do not testify before this committee — is a joke.