INSTEAD OF FIXING HEALTHCARE, MOE’S SASK. PARTY SETTING UP SNITCH LINE TO MUZZLE HEALTHCARE WORKERS

Scott Moe Targets Workers As He Dismantles Public Healthcare
REGINA – At a time when healthcare workers face increasing violence, unsafe patient loads and profound moral distress, Scott Moe’s solution is to set up a snitch line to prevent employees from sharing anything that may make the Saskatchewan Health Authority look bad.

The SHA, which has numerous Sask. Party campaign workers and political insiders among its senior executives, is currently seeking proposals for an Anonymous Reporting Mechanism, described as “a service that can be used for anonymous reporting to the organization where employees and others are suspected of violating SHA policies, codes of conduct, or conflict of interest rules.”
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“Unbelievable — instead of listening and addressing the very real safety and workplace concerns our frontline workers are dealing with every single day, Scott Moe and their loyal SHA leadership are more worried about muzzling workers to save face,” said Meara Conway, Saskatchewan NDP Shadow Minister for Health. “This is a government focused on setting up snitch lines when they should be focused on fixing Saskatchewan healthcare, which is in worse shape than ever.”
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For months, healthcare workers have been bravely sharing stories of overcrowded emergency rooms, hallway medicine and risks to their personal safety. This tender for a snitch line was posted January 13th, just one day after 200 healthcare workers at St Paul’s broke rank and spoke out calling for an immediate response and safety plan at St. Paul’s Hospital. Last fall 450 workers at Royal University Hospital did the same.
“Healthcare workers are speaking out because they’re scared — for their patients, their coworkers, and for their own safety,” said Nathaniel Teed, Saskatchewan NDP Labour Shadow Minister. “The government’s response shouldn’t be to slap them with a gag order — it should be to fix the dangerous conditions they’re being forced to work in.”
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This proposal would also seem to fly in the face of legislation passed to give healthcare workers whistleblower protection, meaning they should be free speak out on conditions in their workplace, without fear of retribution.
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The Sask. Party has driven healthcare into last place in Canada. Instead of retaining workers, Saskatchewan continues to lose doctors and nurses to other provinces. Scott Moe has talked openly in recent weeks about moving to two-tier American-style private healthcare, where people who can afford to can pay to jump the queue for healthcare. His plan comes as everyday Saskatchewan people report higher financial anxiety than anywhere else in the country.
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Conway said supporting public healthcare is key — and working collaboratively with frontline workers is the only path forward.
“You don’t solve a staffing crisis by silencing the who are still showing up every day,” Conway said. “You solve it by making healthcare safer, properly staffed and worthy of the people who dedicate their lives to it."
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