According to the
Fraser Institute, Moe is Saskatchewan’s highest spending premier since 1965, delivering deficit after deficit and doubling the province’s debt to a record $40 billion.
“Scott Moe has turned waste into an art form,” said Aleana Young, NDP Shadow Minister for Jobs & Economy. “Another $3.7 billion piled onto the debt, millions flushed away on failed projects, and not a single Saskatchewan family better off for it.”
Number 10
Moe pays a European company $300,000 to write his Facebook posts, apparently because no one in Saskatchewan is capable. While young, qualified people desperately look for work, this premier has no problem giving a lucrative contract to Emplifi in the Czech Republic.
Number 9
Moe allows two thousand
social housing units to sit empty, resulting in $10 million in lost revenue and costing $9 million in taxes, utilities and administration expenses.
Number 8
While those units sit empty, the Sask. Party spent
$1.5 million to house homeless people in hotels – $613,570 at the Country Inn and Suites Saskatoon and $960,662 at the Travelodge Suites Regina Eastgate.
Number 7
Moe’s incompetent Social Services Minister pays a deplorable bug-infested
Regina motel more than 60 percent above its advertised rate to house social services clients, despite warnings from his Ministry officials
not to use the hotel.
Number 6
Moe’s GTH Minister starts a
bidding war with the City of Regina for a new Costco, costing Regina taxpayers $6.8 million.
Number 5
Moe’s incompetent Health Minister defends sending hundreds of women to
Calgary for mammograms at ten times the cost of providing the service here in our public system.
Number 4
That same Minister oversees the doubling of costs for two major government computer systems - $325 million over budget. AIMS is $195 million overbudget and still not working, while EBMPS is $130 million over-budget.
Number 3
Moe allegedly spends
$100 million more than necessary on four fire-fighting planes.
Number 2
Moe’s incompetent Crowns Minister drives SaskPower into nearly $300 million in losses and over
$800 million in unbudgeted debt, making a SaskPower rate hike all but certain.
Number 1
Premier Scott Moe hands out
pay raises to 13 more undeserving Sask. Party MLAs while Saskatchewan people borrow money to buy food and pay rent this Christmas.
"At a time when people are skipping meals and cutting back on essentials, Scott Moe’s answer is pay raises for Sask. Party MLAs who created this mess. It’s insulting,” said Young.
“Giving yourself a raise while families can’t afford Christmas isn’t leadership — it’s arrogance.
“Saskatchewan people deserve a brighter future and a government that respects their money and puts it to work for them — not one that burns it and calls it leadership.”
“Since Moe became premier, he has more than doubled the debt to $39.3 billion. Taxpayers are now sending more than $1 billion every year to Toronto and Wall Street bankers just to service the interest on that debt, money that’s not going to healthcare, housing or affordability.
“Good job, Premier. Merry Christmas.”
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