Saskatchewan's socialist CCF government took two important actions last week. For $3,600,000, it bought all the Saskatchewan holdings of the power network of Canadian Utilities Ltd. This gave the government's Power Commission possession of the last private power system of any consequence in the province. Then, in the provincial legislature, bantam-sized Premier Thomas Clement Douglas told how things had been going with the other enterprises* his government has socialized in the past 2½ years. Things were going pretty well.
Saskatchewan's CCF bookkeeping has been questioned before. But according to the official figures, in the first half of the current fiscal...
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