It’s time to come clean, Mr. Wall

Once again, the Saskatchewan Party is denying a basic requirement in a democracy — allowing full transparency and accountability on a highly questionable transaction that involves millions of our hard earned tax dollars.

This past week, the Public Accounts Committee met once again — and once again, the Saskatchewan Party majority-governed committee denied the important request to allow Laurie Pushor and Bill Boyd to be questioned about their involvement and potential criminal actions regarding the GTH land acquisition from Saskatchewan Party financially-tied land flippers. As it turns out, Pushor is the one officially responsible for deciding who gets to be questioned by this committee. An obvious conflict of interest on its own.

Premier Brad Wall is quoted that he will do “whatever possible to make sure people understand” there was no conflict of interest or wrongdoing in this transaction. Mr. Wall, it is your job to ensure there actually was no wrongdoing in this transaction — and in the off chance that there was, take responsibility for these actions. If you are truly willing to do “whatever possible,” then you need to allow these individuals to be questioned — no matter how much you think it is a redundant exercise.

Once you’re done with the GTH, Mr. Wall, it’s about time you come forward on the highly questionable land transactions that occurred along Tower Road for the Regina Bypass.

I would highly recommend you do it before the authorities do, because it will help to maintain whatever trust your party has left. Chad A. Novak Saskatchewan Taxpayers Advocacy Group, Regina