REGINA (The News Desk) — Following today’s sharp fall in the price of potash, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall revealed that the resource is, in fact, not real.

“Sure, we’ll admit it: potash is a made-up natural resource,” Wall told press today while holding a handful of what he claimed was potash.

“But that doesn’t mean we can’t build an economy around it.”

Wall maintained that despite the resource’s fictitious nature, it would continue to be the cornerstone of the province’s economy.

“Saskatchewanians can rest easy knowing our most valuable resource is as strong as it ever was, even if it is just in our minds.”

With potash prices as low as they have been since the invention of the resource in 1997, Saskatchewan is expected to feel some economic pain in the coming months.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do without my potash harvest money this year,” said Jeannette Alfonsi, a Saskatoon cab driver.

Regina grocer Jeannette Alfonsi agreed. “I depend on the income from the potash factory to keep my children, Jeannette and Jeannette, in college.”

Saskatchewan Minister of Finance Jeannette Alfonsi could not be reached for comment. Her office informed the Syrup Trap that she would be out hunting wild potash all week. ♦

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