Who Have We Communicated With?

Some of the Individuals and Organizations We Have Contacted:

Letters to various government agencies regarding taxation concerns – no meaningful response.
PCS Minister Cheveldayoff 2016 pending eviction of a senior - strong, fair response; the last helpful response from any Minister.
Ministries for Parks Culture Sport, Environment, Finance, Justice, Government Relations, and Executive Committee – responses, if even acknowledged were typically evasive, incomplete redirects to other Ministries or a lawyer.
Sask Liquor and Gaming Authority - long, drawn out, dishonest and obstructive; included email exchanges with SLGA officials Brewer, Yano and Gasper until V.P. Fiona Cribb said their investigation was closed; Engle provided FOIP documents.
PCS contacted re privacy breaches by SLRPA; Park Planner Clincke, who was the Park Authority 's liaison, also served as the Ministry's privacy officer – he decided there was no issue.
Parks Culture and Sport Deputy Minister Twyla MacDougall – responses (when forthcoming) obstructive, incomplete, often misleading and sometimes defamatory as in accusing us of being vexatious and frivolous when making access to information requests.
Darlene Friesen, former Executive Director, Sask Regional Parks Association – generally pleasant providing basic information.
Katrina Irving, Ms. Friesen’s replacement – abrupt, unpleasant and obstructive.
Communications with Premier Wall – generally pleasant, stoneWALLing responses filled with political double speak.
Communications with Premier Moe – generally pointless.
Communications with Ministries for SLGA, Parks, Government Relations, Environment, Finance – rare responses are usually pointlessly redirected.
Direct communications with PCS Minister Makowsky to accept mediation offer made in Committee (May 2018) – the response was that they could not force a party to engage in mediation. Unfortunately, no record of communication with the Park Authority was ever produced through FOIP that indicated the Park's refusal. Current Minister Laura Ross might as well not exist, she responds to nothing.
Communications with Saskatchewan's Official Opposition: provincial NDP members and staff, occasionally helpful but more often raised hopes that led to a disappointing dead end. *Of note: recently got an ingenuous query in response to a Suffern Lake concern regarding OHS infractions: "Are there concerns surrounding the dealings of the Regional Park Board?". Why yes, since you ask, there are and we have kept the appropriate critics informed throughout the years so if the NDP new blood is unaware, we suspect they have some in-party divisions. See HOME page for concerns.
Communications with Sask. Liberal Party leader – considerate, indicating concern then poof... gone.
Communications with Sask. Green Party leader – requested additional materials, which we provided, no further communication.
Communications with federal Attorney General Canada/Justice Minister Canada – no meaningful response; redirect to Provincial Ombudsman.
Communications with senior staff Saskatchewan Assessments Management Agency – considerate, professional, and effective.
Communications with Office of the Privacy Commissioner – professional, considerate and effective.
Attempted communication federal NDP Justice Critic – no response.
Office of the Provincial Ombudsman – delays in reviewing materials and no plan of action or meaningful response until poof... can't touch anything before the courts and where were we? Back in court.
Office for Dispute Resolution, Ministry of Justice – our request for mediation included Parks (who never acknowledged or responded), Environment and Government Relations who refused participation saying, "we play no role". Really? Our understanding is that GR collects the Education Property Tax and stuffs it into general revenues before doling it out to School Boards. Link to our submission to the Office for Dispute Resolution.
Canadian Judicial Council – two Conduct Reviews completed, two denied with lengthy responses from the gatekeeper in which we learned that "perjury is addressed AT THE DISCRETION OF THE JUDGE". Makes a mockery of our long held belief that the courts will hold liars and their legal counsel accountable for lies presented in sworn documents.
Saskatchewan Law Society – disappointing and self-serving, deliberate delay in processing ethics complaint, lack of transparency in process, basically an association intent on protecting the legal industry ie: "you don't understand the adversarial nature of our industry" and "we expect correction not perfection".
Various lawyers – one very helpful, one considerate with redirection because of not being able to practice in Saskatchewan, others simply expensive with no meaningful result but sympathy as offered by the famous Tony Merchant who in August 2023 wrote: "I am sorry about the wrongs to which you are being subjected". Mr. Merchant indicated he could not represent us on contingency as any effort we undertook would be seen as "a collateral attack on a Judge". That's interesting because in October the Park Authority made another application to the court seeking clarification of Justice Zuk's eighteen-month-old decisions for QB174 and 175 of 2021.
Suggested Mediation to lawyer for SLRPA – offer was refused, then in his court submission said we forced SLRPA to take us to court.
Whistleblowing Canada Research Society – helpful and effective network building, discouraging to discover the widespread and frequent occurrence of government wrongdoing and cover up.
Democracy Watch Canada – overloaded but took time to provide other contacts.
CBC Saskatchewan – multiple attempts to contact, no response.
Saskatoon Star Phoenix – two attempts, no response.
Glacier Media – no response.
Dialogue Magazine – multiple articles published.