{"id":129366,"date":"2017-11-07T22:50:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T03:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=129366"},"modified":"2017-11-07T22:50:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T03:50:48","slug":"ndp-questions-saskatchewan-premier-brad-walls-continued-private-email-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/07\/ndp-questions-saskatchewan-premier-brad-walls-continued-private-email-use\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP questions Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall’s continued private email use"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The premier’s office says that’s because his government email was down intermittently for two weeks. (Photo<\/a>: Brad Wall\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

REGINA\u2014 The Opposition wants to know why Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is still using a private email server to do government business after saying he would stop.<\/p>\n

Wall sent emails to his staff from a private server in September.<\/p>\n

The premier’s office says that’s because his government email was down intermittently for two weeks.<\/p>\n

Interim NDP Leader Nicole Sarauer says the party filed a freedom-of- information request for technical difficulties related to the premier’s government email in September and was told no such records exist.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s no evidence at all of his email being down,\u201d Sarauer said at the legislature Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t know why he’s not being forthright, but it is a question of trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarauer said the emails were about the Global Transportation Hub, a controversial land deal in which Saskatchewan’s auditor said the province significantly overpaid for land to build a hub and bypass Regina.<\/p>\n

Sarauer said the NDP is concerned about whether the premier’s office is being honest about his government email being down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would assume that the most powerful person in our province should have an email address that’s actively working, where he can get emails and send emails,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if it’s down for one or two days, as his office had said it was, you would assume that would quickly spark a request to have that fixed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wall was criticized by the NDP in May for using a private email server to do government business.<\/p>\n

At the time, he initially stood by the decision to use personal email accounts while working at home or on weekends, but a spokeswoman from the premier’s office later said he would only use government email.<\/p>\n

The NDP is concerned that emails sent with a private server aren’t accessible to Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner. They would have to be voluntarily turned over by Wall.<\/p>\n

The premier’s office gave reporters copies of emails sent by Wall’s ministerial assistant to a government IT support person in August. The emails said the premier was having trouble with emails on his iPad.<\/p>\n

Wall was not available Tuesday for questions from the media.<\/p>\n

He did say during question period that he’s \u201cundertaken to use the government email … so long as that it’s working.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said emails sent on the private server have been made available through freedom-of-information requests.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoreover, we’re going to ensure they’re collected and handed over to the archives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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