Cameco is one of the biggest uranium mining companies in the world. One of the new Wascana board members after the CanOxy takeover was Bernard Michel, president and CEO of Cameco. There is also a close parallel in how these sectors are financed. Typically, corporate supporters like Blakeney use public money to finance the development of these resource sectors. Roads are built, pipelines installed, technologies developed, workers trained, etc, at taxpayer expense.
Government then passes the profitable components over to private corporations for exploitation.
So while corporations make their profits, the public inherits the debt incurred to finance the infrastructure, as well as a polluted environment and a depleted resource base. This seemingly shameless spending of public money in the service of corporate interest could one of the reasons why Cabinet papers are kept confidential for 25 years. It could also be why the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act was passed in May of 1997, extending the cloak of secrecy over Blakeney's Cabinet's papers for an additional 25 years. It will be 50 before the public will have full access to these documents and can begin to fully critique Blakeney's administration.