A government should be representative of the people's will, instead we have reached the ultimate level of corruption whereby this government is not serving the public but it is serving itself and its friends(4). One thing I want to make simple and clear, this government has been telling us they have been reducing the public debt, and instead they have been lying to us, in fact they have been increasing the public debt.

In 1991 our government had a debt of $17,555 million and to day in 2000, this same government has a debt of $18,975 million. And you know what Premier Roy Romanow and Minister of Finance Eric Cline tell us, they tell us that they have been the first province to balance the budget. Here on one hand we balance the yearly fiscal budget and on the other hand we increase the debt, I ask "is this the way to do business?" We remind our Honourable and distinctive Minister of Finance Eric Cline, that as we go into the next fiscal year we forget about the previous budget and we carry forward our liability, that is our debt, that is our minus $18,975 million! Our Premier Roy Romanow and Eric Cline cannot be blamed for a short memory in focusing only on the yearly fiscal budget for the simple reason that they have been playing with the number game since they came to power. And they both played the number game when in presenting the 2000-2001 provincial budget, Eric Cline stated that this was "the seventh consecutive balanced budget" and that the total debt of the province was $11,509 million(5).

The number game has finished Premier Roy Romanow and Eric Cline, and you are going to pay dearly for your misdeeds, and your legacy is a nightmare for all the people of the province and especially for the most weakest and disadvantaged, our young aboriginal people(6).

My conclusion is that Honourable Premier Roy Romanow and Honourable Eric Cline have been deceiving the people of Saskatchewan by keeping up two sets of books, the first focused on the General Revenue Fund, and the second including any other business representing about 40% of Government activity. In realizing this accounting anomaly, our Acting Provincial Auditor, Fred Wendel, has stated "the Government should publish planning and performance information that shows the entire Government."

Endnotes

1. The priority in health reform is not the number of health district boards but the questioning of our leadership, by Mario deSantis, October 11, 2000 Submitted for publishing to 'TheStarPhoenix' of Saskatoon and to the 'Nipawin Journal' of Nipawin.

2. Report of the Provincial Auditor: Understanding the Finances of the Government, 2000 Fall Report, Volume 1, Provincial Auditor of Saskatchewan http://www.auditor.sk.ca

3. Premier Romanow's Government: Skewing Information and Keeping From Learning, by Mario deSantis, July 18, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000/desantis196/SkewJustice-Jul18-00.html

4. Governments must stop to serve themselves and their friends, by Mario deSantis, February 12, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000/desantis116/governmenttrust.html

5. Financial Highlights of 2000-01 BUDGET, March 29, 2000, PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN, March 29, 2000

6. Honourable Eric Cline has not balanced the budget yet, he forgot our school-children, by Mario deSantis, April 2, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000/desantis155/notbalanced.html