Thread by @sbotas99

Yesterday, our government rolled out the mid-year financial update. We spent more than an entire years’ education budget on crop insurance. Add the worst wildfire season in history, and a pandemic, and we are setting a new record for our largest deficit in history. A thread...

Our record deficit eclipses the record we set...last year. In 2007 when the Sask Party came into power, our net public debt was 5.8 billion dollars. Today it stands at 17.5 billion dollars and it’s climbing fast. It’s projected to rise to 23 billion by 2024.

For a party that bases its entire identity on economic credibility, they are selling our future to pay for our present. Source below. But the NDP closed hospital in the 90s, so they must be bad, right?

Source: rbc.com/economics/econ…

There’s ample evidence to suggest that the economic cycle in this province is that a conservative government enters power, spend like drunken sailors, run up the debt, and leave the NDP to clean up the mess.

The finance minister suggested that the devastating drought and wildfires are “cyclical”, but to claim that the worst drought and fire season in our history, right after the coldest winter in 100 years, is incredibly naïve. The problem is, this isn’t just ignorance.

Saskatchewan has used oil, gas, and agriculture as the backbone of our economy for years. The problem is, all of those industries are about to face major disruptions. Climate change is going to affect crop production, whether you believe in it or not.

Demand for oil and gas is going to fall worldwide. It’s unavoidable as part of a larger, global, green movement. But our government chooses to pretend this isn’t going to happen, and ties its fortunes to an industry facing its own decline.

But our government refuses to even admit that climate change is a problem, and fights measures to prevent it in court. Why is all of this nonsense happening? Because our government has become completely detached from reality.

Just listen to any government official answer a question. They refuse to even acknowledge the challenges we face. They have no interest in the people of Saskatchewan, they are only interested in ideology.

We have an alarmingly anti-government government. They slash public services, enhance corporate welfare, roll out the red carpet for private industry while letting tent cities emerge in major urban centres. They keep taxes low, run up the debt, and then blame the NDP in the 90s.

Our government has lost touch. They view the people of this province with so much contempt. They don't care about WHAT's right anymore, they're only concerned about BEING right, and will tell any story that makes that the case.