Premier Wall 'cautiously optimistic' about Nutrien job commitments

Months after threatening to use legislation and the province’s potash royalty regime to keep head office jobs in Saskatchewan, Premier Brad Wall says he is “cautiously optimistic” about the merger between two of Western Canada’s largest fertilizer companies.Nutrien Ltd., which was formed on Jan. 1 when Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. and Agrium Inc. joined forces, pledged in recent meetings to bump the number of corporate jobs in the province 15 per cent, to around 300,