TRUE COLORS SHOWN, I'D LIKE AN ANSWER

https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1781033690165862521

Scott Moe’s answer here looks every bit like an answer you’d get from Justin Trudeau.  He never addressed the question and bragged about how wonderful his government is by increasing health capacity, which is to say he threw a cup of water on a forest fire.  

Contrast his answer with that of Danielle Smith, the Alberta Premier, who was posed a similar question.  Smith, upon being sworn in as Premier, called the unvaccinated the ‘most discriminated group’ and she’s been much more clear on articulating many of the wrongs that occurred between March 2020 and when the Freedom Convoy put an end to much of the ironfisted ruling in February 2022.  Smith also fired left wing ideologue (Chief Medical Health Officer) Deena Hinshaw, who was given control of the entire province by fake conservative Premier Jason Kenney because the one elected to run things was too weak to actually do what he was voted in to do - lead.    

Moe defends his policies by saying it was a time in which nobody had answers.  Well, there were many alternate answers and it was as obvious as the glasses on his face but he didn’t have the courage to move in that direction.  If you recall, he seemed quite sure of himself when he made fun of people who used Ivermectin.  It was popular to make jokes about horse paste so he never hesitated to score points by piling on.  He was quite sure of himself when he said he had run out of patience for those who ‘chose’ not to get vaccinated against Covid.  It’s not a choice when you lose patience and enact crippling rules that pins those folks into a corner.  He was quite sure of himself when he hired ‘police’ to investigate people who exceeded capacity limits in their own home or people who refused to wear a mask at work when nobody else was within earshot.  He was quite sure of himself in March 2020 when he announced a two week lockdown (which turned into many months of flicking an on-and-off switch and no further mention of building capacity) to allow the hospital system to brace for the influx of sickness.  If he wasn’t sure, he could have stood up there and said ‘Hey this is unprecedented and I don’t know if this will work but we are going to try this for a bit and see.’  Contrary to his belief, it’s not a weakness to admit you aren’t sure about something.  It’s not a weakness to say sorry after the fact.  It’s not a weakness to say now that you have more information you’d do things a lot different.  Moe isn’t saying any of those things, which tells me he’s still in 2024 every bit the weak leader that he showed himself to be in 2020.

My biggest take on his non-answer here is that he hopes it doesn’t happen again.  Which if you read between the lines, he’d do the exact same thing all over again if given the opportunity.  And yes I’ll call it an opportunity because I believe his decisions are based more on maintaining power than they are on anything else.  Also, for those unable to discern his ‘answer’ - NO he is not apologizing and don’t ask him again.

Sometimes, as a leader, you have to have the vision that you know is the proper decision but also is a decision that could cost you your job.  I will use the City of Yorkton as an example.  When I moved here in 2001, Phil DeVos was mayor.  He was a staunch supporter of renovating the AgriPlex and turning it into more of a modern multi-purpose facility but it was going to be costly to do so.  He was also a major advocate for spending quite a bit of money on water upgrades and argued it needed to be done so that Yorkton could attract a potential canola plant (Yorkton ended up attracting two of them, not just one).  In the subsequent election, DeVos lost.  Taxes had gone up considerably and the voters punished him for it.  20+ years later, nobody remembers that without the vision of DeVos (who doesn’t like me, by the way, so I’m not blowing smoke up his you-know-what because he’s my friend) we’d be a dead end town with zero canola plants and a hockey rink that needs to be demolished or would cost 10x more to bring it up to date now than what it did back then.  Another thing DeVos had hoped for but didn’t get was a sky walk to connect the old AgriPlex (now Gallagher Centre) to the new Painted Hand Casino and hotel that was constructed.  I recall him talking about such a dream and many just laughed it off but how handy would that be today?  He also mused about similar skywalks downtown that would have further decimated the taxpayer but I can’t help but wonder how prosperous downtown would be today had something like that materialized.

Anyways, back to the Covid era and Moe.  If you talked to people close to the situation in the political circle, which I did, I often was told that Moe and his Lieutenants didn’t believe in the policies they were handing down alongside Chief Medical Health Officer Saqib Shahab (who is still in his position despite wrong decision after wrong decision after wrong decision and a stubbornness to follow evidence that contrasted his talking points) but they also admitted to not being strong enough to withstand the pressure that would have been relentless from crazy left wing mainstream media outlets and political opponents.  

After seeing the answer posted in the link at the top of the page about apologizing, I think it’s time I heard from my local Yorkton candidate, David Chan.  The speech Chan gave at the nomination meeting did not at all resemble something that would fall in line with this word salad from Moe.  This isn’t a minor difference in opinion here.  Covid policies deeply divided people.  I think people in Yorkton (and other areas of the province for that matter) need to know if their local candidate is loyal to them or loyal to the Party?  Ideally, you hope for the answer to be ‘both’, but Yorkton’s nomination meeting result tells me that Moe’s answer in the link posted at the top of the page isn’t in-line at all with what the people here voted for in March.  Chan is off to a bad start by staying quiet.  He needs to speak up on behalf of those who voted for him or just admit he’s going to be just like the rest of the MLAs who fall in line with their Party and not with those who put them in a position to represent them.

One of the more common questions a SaskParty supporter or member will ask me when I talk about how unsatisfied I am is, ‘Who else are you going to vote for?’, which is to say I should excuse how terrible they are because the alternative is worse.  Well you know what?  I’m not afraid of worse.  I have worse already in Ottawa.  If you show me you don’t deserve to govern, I will vote for worse just to remove an arrogant attitude that basically admits ‘yeah we may be bad, but you don’t have any other options’.  

What I need to know now is who is out of line?  Is it the Premier? Or is it the local MLA candidate who delivered a convincing and passionate speech about freedom that allowed him to score an upset victory?