Madam Speaker, what I did not get to was some of the NDP scandals in Saskatchewan and how poorly the NDP governed our province for 16 long years. People used to call it “Roy's revenge.” Roy Romanow was the NDP premier of Saskatchewan who closed 152 hospitals in our province, devastating health care. Roy Romanow closed 175 schools; that was one school for every week he was premier in our province. This devastated rural Saskatchewan. When the New Democrats were in power, they were so terrible that they have not won a seat in rural Saskatchewan since Roy's revenge.
When we talk about scandals, there is also a little thing called Spudco. The NDP in Saskatchewan lost $56 million, and this was in 1990, trying to plant potatoes. Saskatchewan has pretty good agricultural land. The government lost $56 million on Spudco.
The kicker is something Saskatchewan called mega bingo. Only a bunch of socialists would lose money on bingo in Saskatchewan. The program lost $20 million because the province could not get bingo right. That is a failure.