Scott Moe plans to introduce U.S. style, private for-profit, healthcare to Saskatchewan where the rich go to the front of the healthcare line, and the “not-rich” have a choice between bankruptcy and death. Or more likely bankruptcy and then death.
$35k donation to the Sask Party, $177 million private contract. Pretty good grift. Oh, and the guy who lobbied the Sask Party government for this used to be a chief of staff to a Sask Party minister. Just blatant cash for access. Sask needs to elect the @Sask_NDP and end this.
Tonight, Scott Moe’s MLAs rejected 17 amendments we put forward to improve their deeply flawed Bill 48, the so-called Compassionate Intervention Act.
They refused a basic change that would ensure no person seeking lifesaving treatment for drug addiction can lose their space to someone being put into treatment involuntarily.
Let’s be clear — Moe himself conceded last week that existing treatment spaces are “largely full.” We are aware of people trying to get help that are waiting six weeks or more to be admitted. People will die waiting to save themselves.
What good is involuntary treatment if there are no treatment spaces?
This is a pattern from a Sask. Party Government that has done nothing while poisonous drugs flood into our communities and nearly a person per day dies of overdose or drug-related poisoning.
Today, this government also refused to allow questioning of the for-profit, out-of-province company they’re leaning on to provide treatment, Edgewood Health Network (EHN). We know EHN’s CEO preaches a business model of speed and compares his business strategy to aerial combat in the Korean war. We have so many questions and deep concerns about the hidden contracts this government has signed with EHN.
The Sask. Party also rejected calls for the establishment of a Child Death Review Committee, despite 13 children under the age of five dying of exposure to toxic and illicit drugs — and despite such a committee being recommended for nearly a decade.
Finally, the Sask. Party denied calls for a Coroner’s inquest into these deaths so that recommendations can be made to prevent further tragic loss in the future.
For the small minority of individuals whose substance use poses an imminent and serious threat to themselves or public safety, forced treatment should be considered; only as a last resort, and always with safeguards to protect individual rights and dignity.
Put simply, this is a government that wants to give the illusion that they’re working to end the drug crisis, rather than actually doing anything to end the drug crisis.
Responsibility for the failed response — and the tragic outcomes — lies with Scott Moe.
These kids deserved better.
The people of Saskatchewan deserve better.
Earlier today, Scott Moe and the Sask. Party voted against our Grid and Growth Plan, which will keep power rates affordable, lower emissions, invest heavily in renewable energy — and do all of this while generating $33 billion in economic activity.
They've decided to keep struggling Saskatchewan families, farms and small businesses on the costliest power plan of them all — the Scott Moe plan.
We will keep opposing their terrible plan, that's our job.
But I'm going to let you in on a little secret — we don't intend to be the Official Opposition for much longer.
Read our full plan and have your say: https://t.co/QSiln6AB2U.
A new report from https://t.co/t7WFT9nA9a has found Saskatchewan has the largest rent increase over the past three years with a 26.2 per cent gain since March 2023.
Clearly, people can’t afford this.
Scott Moe continues to side with out-of-province corporate landlords, who buy up properties and jack up the rents with little or no warning.
This has to stop. Clearly it’s time for rent control.
We could pass The Rent Control Act introduced by April ChiefCalf - MLA for Saskatoon Westview the moment the legislature resumes on Monday.
https://t.co/8fdnYCC10o.
Some of my reaction to yesterday’s bad news budget from Scott Moe on CBC.
You will pay more.
Healthcare will get even worse — hard to imagine.
Moe is spending three times as much to service the interest on his debt as he is on police.
Clearly, it’s time for change.
While Scott Meme and Little Jeremy aggressively scale back trucking regulations truckers hauling oversized loads ramp up crashing into highway overpasses. | Sask. to scale back on licensing requirements for some oil rig drivers https://t.co/YXgrgKbGYl via @YouTube