Former Premier and Swift Current MLA Brad Wall has been retired from public office since January, but he's still busy.

He'll be staying in Swift Current an advisor with the Osler, Hoskin, and Harcourt lawfirm's Calgary office. Wall, who has recently started a consulting business, plans on going up for a few days every couple of weeks while continuing to call Swift Current home.

"[The advisory role] is not really a job, it's an additional thing that I'll be doing as part of my new business, and that means it makes sense to keep things based at home. There's no need to relocate anywhere. Saskatchewan's a great place to start a business, so Tami (Wall's wife) and I decided that we were going to stay at home, and I'm glad it's worked out well with this particular engagement. They certainly support that as well."

Wall has been critical of the federal government's dealings with the Trans Mountain Pipeline, saying the Liberals should be doing more to get the British Columbia government on board.

"The federal government says they don't have a lot of options, or a lot of points of leverage," he said. "If that's their claim, they certainly haven't made use of the ones they do have. They can certainly be going back to the British Columbia government and saying, 'look, you're thwarting this pipeline, it's federally approved, if you're not going to get out of the way, you're going to be sacrificing infrastructure dollars or transfer payments.'"

Scott Moe, who took over as Saskatchewan Party leader and premier after Wall, pointed out that Saskatchewan was denied $62 million over five years for not signing on with a carbon tax.

Now Wall, whose advisory work with Osler, Hoskin, and Harcourt will be mostly around the energy and agriculture sectors, is speaking from coast to coast, as well as getting his feet wet in other things.

"I'm also doing some speaking across the country and I'll be in Vancouver next week for example, and Newfoundland in June, and there's a few other engagements we've booked through that. So you set up a business to do that, and maybe some consulting as well, and that's the nature of my new venture. It also may include a small foray into the cattle business here of late. It's really quite a broad mix of things that we're looking at and enjoying so far."

Wall also took to Twitter today with a survey on the pipeline, and he plans to use the feedback he gets from it during his talks.

"I know there's a lot of people that follow me on Facebook and Twitter who definitely don't necessarily agree with everything that I do. I hear from them on a regular basis. There's a good mix there. But also people will be able to share the survey beyond the group. We're not going to be saying this is a scientific poll with a margin of error; it's a survey."

Wall said it's the first of more opinion polls to come.