After years of failed investments across Canada and around the world, Saskatchewan's Crowns are finally pulling out. The province's new "Saskatchewan First" policy for the crowns means SaskTel, SaskPower, SaskEnergy, and SGI will focus on opportunities in their home province. But even though the era of boondoggles abroad has ended, the problems posed by existing Crowns remain, and, in some ways, may even get worse.