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Premier Brad Wall wrote letter boosting film industry last year

May 16, 2012 | 2:17 PM

Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall cut questions with reporters short when asked about a letter he wrote to the Los Angeles film community just last year.

The letter has his picture and his signature, but the message sounds like nothing the premier has said in recent months.

In the letter he calls the Saskatchewan film industry a “vital component of our province's growing economy.”

Months later his government would have a severe turn around and erase the employment tax credit that many have called integral to the industry. The premier and his ministers have repeated again and again the decision had to be made in order to keep the country’s only balanced budget.