I haven’t kept up with Saskatchewan politics lately, but I recall the last time a “common sense party” was governing Saskatchewan, it was best known for buying votes and racking up massive debt:
Cynicism and victimhood may be easy to resort to, but watch how Regina's great stadium debate unfolds and compare it to Hamilton's. Compare results - the finished project.
Ignorant? Brad Wall was elected in November 2007. Crude oil prices reached an all-time record high in July 2008 (about $145/barrel). Oil prices declined for about a year starting in Oct 2008 due to the global recession, bottoming out at about $35/barrel in early 2009. By May 2009, crude prices had recovered, and after a very healthy 2010 for oil, we saw oil close at around $110/barrel in much of the early part of this year. Even ignoring the consistently high oil prices since May 2009, the simplest interpretation of my comment --that Wall was Premier of Saskatchewan when crude prices were at an all-time high-- is perfectly correct. If you want to accuse me of talking out my ***, kindly read a newspaper or look up some facts on google first.
I’m confident that the finished project will turn out better in Saskatchewan for many reasons. My point was that the current period of economic prosperity in Saskatchewan is a more a product of commodity prices than a product of the Premier’s political ideology.
Oil is trading today at $83.93 a barrell down from all time high (im going with your number here) of $140. So… where again is the record oil prices? As you said that occured 3 years ago. :roll:
Yes, the peak closing price occurred in July 2008, during Wall’s government. Prior to September 2007, oil had never closed above $80/barrel. Prior to June 2005, oil had never closed above $60/barrel. Prior to September 2004, oil had never closed above $50/barrel. From 2008 to today, the yearly average price of oil has exceeded the pre-2008 levels every year except 2009. Even the “low” 2009 avg was higher than the highest ever pre-2005 closing price:
2007 avg: $73.20
2008 avg: $99.16
2009 avg: $62.28
2010 avg: $79.52
2011 ytd average: $97.12
If you can’t see the forest because you’re too busy looking at trees, there’s nothing I can do to help you.
No I can see that. You made your post as if we are dealing with record oil prices. I'm just saying that we aren't by todays price. That's all. Phrase it however you want, but today we aren't.
While it’s not uncommon to stray off topic time to time, zenstate is right.
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Turns out we were right, the numbers never did add up, and the private sector wasn’t being as supportive as was previously stated. Turns out it isn’t just Hamilton after all.