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The first week of the 2011 Provincial Election Campaign is winding down, and already some major issues are emerging.

NDP Leader Dwain Lingenfelter announced help for First Nations in Saskatchewan, including a resource revenue sharing agreement. Warren McCall, who is running for the New Democrats in Regina Elphinstone-Centre, says one of the things that has been on the agenda for First Nations for quite some time now has been resource revenue sharing, adding they see a fair amount of wealth being extracted from traditional First Nations territories, and very little return to First Nations from that wealth.
 
But Saskatchewan Party Leader Brad Wall is critical of the idea. He says the party categorically rejects any special deals for the allocation of the province's natural resource revenues to First Nations, or any other group, because that resource revenue belongs to everybody, and everyone in Saskatchewan is already sharing the benefits of our resources. He adds it would be dangerous to take up to an estimated $400 million of resource revenue a year and allocate it to just one group.
 
Wall is also critical that Lingenfelter also didn't disclose how much this promise would cost Saskatchewan taxpayers, but McCall says there is a series of negotiations that have to be undertaken.
 
Colin Powers talked with NDP Candidate Warren McCall about the promise of a resource revenue sharing agreement with First Nations, and about the Saskatchewan Party's criticism.
 
 
Colin also talked with Saskatchewan Party Leader Brad Wall about what he thinks of the NDP's promise.