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The Benefits of Higher Resource Royalties

Erin Weir Erin Weir
June 12, 2011

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The Canadian Union of Public Employees has launched a great new blog, Imagine What We Could Do, about the things that Saskatchewan should accomplish by raising resource royalties. It draws upon a Relentlessly Progressive Economic analysis of how the province could collect more royalty revenue and outlines public expenditure priorities for those funds.

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