Saskatchewan Party

He says Premier Scott Moe has taken a hard tack against separatism, unlike Alberta's United Conservative Party.

There is nobody inside the Saskatchewan Party lobbying Saskatchewan separatism, and I suspect if they did, the premier would be showing them the door very, very quickly.

He says a majority of people across Canada want the federation to succeed, and he expects the results from today's vote will show that.

Canada! Canada!

I mean, governments aren't doing investment, but governments can create the conditions for investment to either happen or not happen.

And, you know, I think one of the defining successes of the Saskatchewan Party government in the last 20 years has been the cr- creating the conditions for there to be hundreds of billions of dollars of investment, which in turn has led to, you know, population gains of 30% and doubling of the nominal GDP of the province, and five times-ing the, uh, export, uh, values around the world.

I mean, th- these things are what actually allow you to build new urgent, urgent care centers, to fix, um, you know, highways, to, uh, build a new hospital.

I mean, that, that's actually how you pay for all of that stuff.

Sure.

Uh, my home province of Saskatchewan, the Sask Party has been in power since 2007.

Before that, we had 16 years of NDP rule.

In Ontario, the PCs have been in power for the past eight years and counting.

Now, the Canadian dollar is at around 70 cents US, so as those fuel prices, as, as the world's price for oil goes up, we're, we're getting hit hard at the pump because our dollar has been devalued after 11 years of Liberal government.

So when we talk about, like we often talk about the, uh, the savings at the pumps and, and it becomes a conversation even provincially here, where you will see the provincial opposition suggesting that the Sask Party government should remove the provincial tax on fuel.

And the pushback is, "Look, we use that money to reinvest in road infrastructure," for example.

W- we know that the, the federal tax obviously goes towards funding different projects.

Mm.

He was, uh, you know, a, a, a great man that did so much good for the province of Saskatchewan, and the hard work he did with the formation of Saskatchewan Party, and his roles in education and finance and deputy premier.

He, he left a really lasting mark on the province of Saskatchewan.

Yeah, he sure did, Travis.

Yeah, sorry about that.

Anyways, in order to deal with the protests across Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Party, which is a more right-aligned party, called a snap election in February in the hopes that a new mandate for them would kill this universal basic income talk by showing that the majority wasn't interested.

Guess how that went.

I'm gonna guess that they lost.

We want to have a voice in this too.

That's Don Morgan, a former Saskatchewan Party cabinet minister, and Lenore Swiston, a former city councillor.

They are local political pundits.

The topic? Whether Saskatoon should hold a referendum on a new downtown arena.