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Reality Check: Scott Moe’s arrogance is failing Saskatchewan

Reality Check: Scott Moe’s arrogance is failing Saskatchewan

Monday, the Premier insulted anyone in Saskatchewan who critiques his damaging lack of action to get the pandemic under control.

When given the opportunity to apologize for his dangerous and divisive rhetoric yesterday, the Premier chose instead to double down – a slap in the face to doctors, nurses, and front-line health care workers.

Sadly, this is no surprise. The Premier’s recent attitude needs an adjustment:

• Moe ended 2020 by saying there’s nothing he would change in his pandemic response.
• He rejected calls for Joe Hargrave to be removed from cabinet until the very last second.
• He dismissed calls for real action and accountability for the tragedy at Extendicare Parkside.

You might expect some humility from the premier of a province that has led the nation in COVID-19 case rates and death rates for most of 2021.

Instead, Moe’s continued insults and arrogance only divide Saskatchewan people at a time when we need to all pull together.

Reality Check: Reports on shelves don’t save lives

Anyone who has followed the Sask. Party’s long-term problem with long-term care might have found the Minister for Seniors’ letter requesting an Ombudsman’s investigation into the deadly outbreak at Extendicare Parkside quite familiar. 

Saskatchewan NDP raises alarm over risk to rivers from Alberta coal mining

Today Erika Ritchie, Official Opposition Critic for the Environment, wrote to Saskatchewan Environment Minister Warren Kaeding and Water Security Agency Minister Fred Bradshaw urging them to put pressure on the Government of Alberta to restore protections against coal mining that were recently scrapped by the Government of Alberta.

Statement by Official Opposition Critic for Mental Health and Addictions Doyle Vermette

With the shocking news that Saskatchewan saw more than one overdose death per day in the month of January, the NDP Critic for Mental Health and Addictions Doyle Vermette released the following statement:

Meili: Fix testing now to fight COVID-19 variants

SASKATOON - Official Opposition Leader Ryan Meili called on the government today to take serious action to detect and prevent the spread of the new variants of COVID-19, which are considerably more contagious and have rocked pandemic responses around the globe. On Tuesday, Saskatchewan recorded its first two confirmed cases of the UK variant in Regina.

REALITY CHECK: Scott Moe’s COVID-19 Fiction

Yesterday, Scott Moe made three assertions that have absolutely no basis in reality.