NDP questions Sask. Party MLAs private trip to China
One day after he announced his retirement from politics, Bill Boyd’s name is being connected with what the NDP said is a questionable trip to China.
Boyd was there earlier in the year as a private businessman seeking investors for his agriculture firm.
“I am part of a company that was set up to try to attract investor interest in irrigation developments in Saskatchewan on farmland in close proximity to a viable water source,” Boyd explained in an emailed statement. “A seminar was arranged in Beijing to try to attract investors who might be interested in such an investment, which attracted a number of people.”
But at the panel seminars held during his private trip, Government of Saskatchewan logos were used and Boyd was advertised as the Minister of the Economy. At the time he was a backbench MLA.