Political Wood – Grant Devine, Saskatchewan 1991
CANADIAN POLITICAL WOOD / WOODEN NICKEL Grant Devine, Premier of Saskatchewan, 1982 to 1991 Patronage and Corruption, 1-1/2” Political wood. Possibly issued as a political protest around the time of the 1991 Sask. election. Devine’s PC government fell to the Saskatchewan NDP in 1991 after driving the province into a record $14-billion debt. Devine became synonymous with corruption after 14 of his MLAs, including eight Ministers, and two party workers were convicted for fraud. Six went to jail. Another, former Assiniboia-Gravelbourg PC MLA Jack Wolfe, tormented over having to testify against his friends and former colleagues, and by the fact he was…
