Carla Beck

And me, Nikki Hill.

We have Carla Beck with us today, who's in a debate with the Scott Moe government over electricity policy, power bills and plans for a huge data center in Regina.

It's a situation that's occurring across the country as AI creates demand for more data storage and one that's cutting across typical political geography.

So it should be interesting to hear from Carla again about what she's hearing, how she's addressing it, and what she's looking for as leader of the Saskatchewan NDP.

Something similar to what you have in BC with your Look West plan.

We don't have an economic plan.

Or Carla Beck, right, has her grid and growth plan to bolster economic growth.

So when reality bites, what we can expect from Ford is that they're going to look to cuts.

Will there be any? And as you know, we have had numerous conversations on this show with leaders like Jeremy Harrison, who is the Minister of Crown Investments Corporation, comes on to talk about this.

We had Carla Beck, leader of the official opposition, the NDP, on the show to talk about this.

If you think back to when this announcement was first made, the first iteration of this AI data center, uh, we welcomed to the program John Watson.

John is the president of Bell Business Market with Bell Canada.

The initial threat from Washington drew rare bipartisan alignment in Saskatchewan.

Provincial New Democrat leader Carla Beck praising Premier Moe for taking a firm stance against what he called blood potash.

John Cairns has the details on the political response.

Carla Beck is welcoming Premier Mo's post on social media opposing the United States doing a deal for potash from Belarus.

On Monday, Mo posted that the buying of, quote, blood potash from Belarus is supporting Russian aggression, unquote.

Beck says the pushback from the Premier on this issue is something the NDP has long called for.

And they're also being asked to absorb sky-high diesel in production costs.

Diesel is now $2.63 a litre.

So Premier Moe yesterday called it blood potash.

NDP leader Carla Beck called it infuriating.

We can get more into the context of those comments in a moment.

But first, as an economist and someone who has represented this province as a member of parliament, what was your reaction to Trump's essentially Trump's tweet yesterday?