The editor:
This letter is in regards to your column in the Estevan Mercury on Nov. 2.
In my opinion, the Saskatchewan Party intentionally allowed private liquor stores to open to give them an excuse to close the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority liquor stores.
As a former federal government employee who was declared surplus three times before I reached the retirement criteria, I very much feel for the SLGA employees who will be laid off. To suggest they go to work at the private stores is ridiculous.
Their salary and benefits would be severely reduced as the private stores will put the profits in their pockets instead of the provincial coffers.
In my opinion, it is like a desperate farmer selling a good milk-producing cow for a short-term profit and then not having any milk to drink. That cow would continue to produce milk for the provincial coffers forever.
This is not like Saskatchewan Transportation Company which was losing money; SLGA stores are making money and lots of it. What will Moe privative next and why?
Gerald Shauf
Estevan
