Opinion: Surplus exposes lack of a debt reduction strategy in Sask.

  • 📰 TheStarPhoenix
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 33 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 17%
  • Publisher: 63%

Education Education Headlines News

Education Education Latest News,Education Education Headlines

A student studying government debt reduction argues in favour of a sovereign wealth fund that has been proposed for Saskatchewan.

Yet even when Saskatchewan had its own heritage fund, the returns of the fund went to general revenue, hindering the growth in the size of the fund.

Yet even in preparing for resource revenues to return to their median, former finance minister Kevin Doherty stated that the premier’s campaign promise was to “manage within the revenues available to us at $75 and save the rest or pay down debt” — emphasis on the “or” as seven years have passed and Saskatchewan still does not have a sovereign wealth fund.Article content

Yet looking at Alberta’s Heritage Savings Investment Trust, equity investments averaged more than 10 per cent in the last 10 years, and despite ongoing uncertainty with the war in Ukraine, equity returned 18 per cent in the last annual report of the trust.Article content

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 253. in EDUCATİON

Education Education Latest News, Education Education Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Sask. Ombudsman report shows education ministry lacked process for complaints about registered independent schoolsThe education ministry acknowledged it lacked a complaint\u002Dhandling process for registered independent schools.
Source: TheStarPhoenix - 🏆 253. / 63 Read more »