Baby boomers have paid into Medicare their entire lives but they can't appeal to a credit balance to demand healthcare services. Provincial healthcare budgets are a moving target.
Saskatchewan has a population younger than the national average. This Sask Party government believes that popular support guarantees good policy so the bars and restaurants were reopened early in this ongoing pandemic.
They laid the costs of fighting COVID onto the elderly, and as a consequence, Saskatchewan has one of the highest death rates per capita in Canada, if not the highest...we can't be sure because the government stopped reporting case load data.
One day you'll be put on an ice floe instead of in an ambulance. #skpoli

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The conservative argument has always been that government does a poor job when it tries to pick winners in a market economy. In Saskatchewan we have a Crown corporation, SaskPower, that has a monopoly on the production and sale of electricity in the province.
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It's lazy thinking, and typical of this province to let the government go down a path of making huge malinvestments, because after all, it's easy spending someone else's money. There's a better way. #skpoli
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