As I look across the political landscape in Saskatchewan, I am deeply saddened.
Our government under the leadership of Premier Moe has not just lost the moral authority to govern – they have thrown it away.
This administration in general and Premier Moe in particular are in serious conflict with the citizens of Saskatchewan on a range of issues from Crown Grasslands to Health Care.
On this last point, Premier Moe has driven Saskatchewan health-care services into chaos.
The Premier has said that “vaccination is the way out of this pandemic” and yet he has put into place policies that have pushed our health services into a crisis and have failed to educate, encourage and empower our people to navigate the maze of misinformation and to find “the way out”.
Instead, Premier Moe has victimized the vaccinated by allowing Covid to hijack our health-care system so that the doors to many other services are closed.
To whom can citizens turn for help?
Unfortunately, the Official Opposition has been incapable of really holding the government accountable, partly because the Opposition accepts being mired in a legacy of distrust among the half of our population living outside of Regina and Saskatoon.
Or perhaps the Opposition Leader thinks that one can sit in the weeds, so to speak, and then slide into power after the Moe government disintegrates?
Who speaks for the overwhelming majority in Saskatchewan? Who speaks for those who are distressed, fearful and angry as an ineffective government provides no leadership or sense of security in these times?
Maybe it is time for people across Saskatchewan to think about building a new political party from the ground up – a party to make government that has the betterment of the province as its only objective; and to make a government that will balance interests and look for elegant solutions to difficult issues.
This would be a huge change from the government under Premier Moe, which panders to the few, prefers some interests to the exclusion of others and has put us all into danger on several levels.
Roderick E. MacDonald QC
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the position of this publication.
