Scott Moe Breaks Promise To Hold ‘Free Vote’ On Carla Beck’s Legislation To Keep Saskatchewan In Canada
REGINA – As the Spring Sitting wraps, Carla Beck and the Saskatchewan NDP have pledged to continue to fight for Canada and focus on Saskatchewan’s economic future.
The Sask. Party Government is focused on appeasing separatists and continuing to pay off allies of Donald Trump even as the United States President has imposed devastating tariffs on steel and threatened to make Canada the 51st state.
“The Saskatchewan NDP is focused on the future and we know that even talk of separatism will have devastating consequences for our economy,” Beck said.
“There is a moment here to get big, generational projects built — more rail lines, more pipelines and more powerlines; however, that isn’t going to happen unless we unify our province and our country. Scott Moe isn’t focused on that though, he’s willing to sacrifice Saskatchewan jobs to save his own.”
Moe’s own MLAs have been closely tied to separatist group Unified Grassroots, who is actively petitioning for a referendum on Saskatchewan leaving Canada. The group has called Sask. Party Yorkton MLA David Chan “one of us.”
Beck introduced legislation last week to raise the threshold for a referendum on leaving Canada and to remove the power of the Sask. Party Government impose such a vote. When the bill was introduced, Moe promised a “free vote” on the critical legislation but the Sask. Party has blocked repeated attempts this week to hold that vote.
Now, the Spring Sitting has concluded and the Legislature is unlikely to sit until late fall.
“We needed this legislation to send a signal to investors that Saskatchewan will be remain part of Canada,” Beck said. “Scott Moe and the Sask. Party have jeopardized jobs, investment and head offices. I fear they will spend the summer buddying up to separatists and clearing the runway for a vote on leaving the country.
“We can’t let that happen, so we will continue to fight, for Saskatchewan, for Canada, for our future.”
It was also revealed this week that the Sask. Party has paid millions to United States lobbying firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough and that firm has, in turn, made constant political donations to Donald Trump campaign funds and key allies even as he imposed devastating tariffs on the Saskatchewan economy and threatened to make Canada the 51st state.
The Sask. Party also cut critically needed funding for healthcare and education in their provincial budget, introduced at the outset of the Spring Sitting. That budget, less than two months old, is already short hundreds of millions of dollars as a result of the Sask. Party cancelling its industrial emitters slush fund and wildly missing on its oil price projection. The budget shortfall has prompted fears that even more devastating cuts will be imposed in the months ahead.
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