Saskatchewan has many things going for it, but this development speaks to the fact that under Premier Wall the insignificant is ascendant.
"Premier Brad Wall says the Town of Martensville, a bedroom community of Saskatoon, will officially get city status in November."
In Wall's World, apparently, the Sask Party thinks it can keep the Saskatchewan public distracted from real and pressing issues by engaging in empty and absurd exercises like granting a de-facto Saskatoon suburb 'city status'. At best a town, Martensville is nothing more than a faceless home developers dream of cookie cutting heaven. Really, it's nothing more than a burb where relatively affluent worker bees from Saskatoon go to sleep. Hardly a city!
However, that doesn't stop other boosters from overplaying the significance of the event:
"There's a great significance to yet another city in Saskatchewan because in the national consciousness, Saskatchewan is a place that time forgot - ... " says Bill Waiser, a professor in the history department at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.
In fairness, Prof, Waiser knows not of what he speaks. And it's not his fault, he's been brainwashed by living most (if not all?) of his life in a province where a community must only have a population of 5,000 ... to get city status.
No matter what the new official moniker implies, Martensville is, and will remain, nothing more than a burb.
A new City?
Absurd!
