Like all businesses, Crown corporations are a meeting point for investors, customers and employees, who have competing interests, all would take a better deal at the expense of the others if they could.
Deliberately or otherwise, successive governments and interest groups have managed to ignore this basic fact, extolling the benefits of Crowns from one point of view but ignoring others.
The Lowest Cost Bundle Policy (favours consumers) and the 100 per cent dividend policy (hyperactive investor returns) are recent examples of such selective acclamation.
For the good of the Crowns and the wider Saskatchewan economy, this inherent compromise between the roles of investor, customer and employee should be more automatically acknowledged in discussions of Crown Corporations.
