About two weeks before the provincial election, I heard on CBC radio of a study done at the University of Regina which gave (in part) the following information.
Ten percent of Saskatchewanians use a food bank. These are mostly working people, with children, who might find that they have a hard time between paying the rent and buying food. It is not good for children to live in such uncertainty.
Twenty-five percent of single women, whether widows or never married, live in poverty.
During that time it was disclosed that a certain oil company covering Alberta and Saskatchewan had doubled its profits this year.
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We keep hearing that we are a “have” province (in many ways I thought we were already) but when will these riches trickle down to anyone other than CEOs?
We keep hearing the cock-a-doodle-doo from the provincial government that the population of Saskatchewan is growing.
Here in big oil country a certain number of newcomers are, themselves, growing indeed – growing marijuana, and others are indulging in theft, both petty and large.
Let me tell you what I’ve just heard about some of the trickle-down. A certain town has for quite some time been running raw sewage down a small coulee and polluting landowners’ drinking water wells.
The only way the wells can be usable is for the owners to pay for shock treatment. When that wears off the water will again be unusable because of E. coli and the victims must start all over again.
Sounds rather Third World, don’t you think? Another Walkerton?
C.D. Pike,
Waseca, Sask.
