The answer to this question defines your political inclination. Alberta has had a fairly steady political climate of enterprise-friendly governments while Saskatchewan had had erratic governments with alternating socialist and capitalist orientations.

Observing the world scene, Cuba, Russia, Korea and communist/socialist states have a poor record of individual wealth production, personal freedom of choice and opportunity for their citizens. Success is measured by whom you know and discrimination rather than on demonstrated skills and education.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Sask. is an amalgam of anti-socialist groups and individuals who see varied paths to opportunity and provincial governance. They generally believe that less government is better than more government and that governments should concentrate on doing what is needed rather than interfering and negating individual ambition.

Through the years when capitalist politicians have been in charge there has been growth of individual and corporate ownership, more home ownership with an attendant pride of ownership, better communication and a feeling of greater security.

During socialist years there has been a dumbing down of education, lowering of rewards for creativity, loyalty and enterprise. Successful enterprises have been starved in favour of government-run “Crown Corporations’. These spurious ‘independent’ enterprises compete with genuine enterprise using tax-payers’ money.

A typical period of conservative politics was the Grant Devine era, which was voted in because of continuing failure by their NDP forbearers. The P.C.s supported the building of new enterprises, protected people from the effects of a national recession including a 22%interest rate on home mortgages which had been passively supported by the Blakney NDPs. Perhaps they expected citizens to live in government run apartment blocks as they do in Russia?

Older people who have been prevented from saving by the crippling taxes of socialism are forced to part with the little they have saved to cover their old-age care, while those who contribute no serious work during their life time, receive identical or even better treatment in the ‘special care’ homes available to them through subsidized care.

The P.C. Government,  through the ‘80s developed the structure of enterprise which despite the negative effects of socialism in the ‘90s has provided work, pride and even profits which were enjoyed by the NDP Government and this allowed them to pursue their spendthrift ways instead of investing in the people by lowering taxes and pauing down debts.

The P.C. Government headed by Grant Devine developed forestry resources, oil up-graders including the Coo-op Up-grader in Regina, encouraged oil, gas and mineral exploration, built water reservoirs and hydro power stations, and improved roads across the Province.  The construction industry was supported during the recession and rates charged by Crowns were controlled. The P.C. Government was open in its dealing with the public. Accounts were not dishonestly presented by incorporating or concealing Crown debt or surplus, as has been the NDP way. The debt , [over $5 Billion], hidden in the Crowns, was brought out into the open and it became the basis of the Government debt.
The P.C Party was in favour of a nuclear [clean] option for Saskatchewan. Canadian CANDU reactors could supply clean energy; energy mined and refined in the province with the option to return spent fuels whence they came for either reprocessing in the future of permanent disposal in the deep recesses of the Canadian Shield. Only now are some of the NDP theorists reluctantly leaving their Luddite clothes behind and are thinking of refining here.

Ironically the crimes of which the PCs were accused-misuse of caucus funds were basically the purchase of modern office equipment, or the application of anachronistic rules. The PCs could be accused of not concealing their activities or of failing to hire assistants who could ensure that rules were updated to encompass computers in the riding offices. Is any office today without a computer? Ridiculous is it not? The NDP misrepresentation and political vendetta drove the PS Party into hiatus. It also drove an excellent MLA to undeserved guilt and shame and suicide.

The Federal Progressive Conservatives    joined the Alliance[old Reform] Party   to create a new Conservative Party of Canada. The Progressive Conservative Party of Sask thus have a natural affinity with the national Party and are not a political pressure group nor a nationalistic group devoted to   a nation called Saskatchewan. PCs of Sask. were, are and will continue to be staunch defenders of Canada with Saskatchewan as an effective entity within the whole.