~BW Uzelman
The CCF Party, the forerunner of the NDP, gained power in Saskatchewan in 1944. In a dramatic effort to transform and expand the economy, the government quixotically set up crown-owned manufacturing ventures, even a shoe factory. It didn’t work. The factories soon failed and were abandoned.
However, the Saskatchewan CCF went on to expand resource development and industry to fund Medicare, universal pensions and many more social programs.
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