Letters: Moe should have stood up to conspiracists in Saskatchewan (2024)

I thought for some time that our premier was a Donald Trump wannabe (although the former president of the United States is now a convicted felon) and now an article detailing his accommodation of conspiracy theories confirms it for me.

Shame on you Scott Moe. You’re supposed to be the premier of the province — for all of us — even if we didn’t vote for you. You could have had the intestinal fortitude and stood up to these conspiracy theorists. But then you probably in good conscience couldn’t do that because you agree.

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What will we read next? That women of child-bearing age should stay out of the work force and have many children? Or that the LGBTQ+ community should not exist? Or that women like me who have an opinion should somehow be silenced?

Time to change the government in the next election. In my opinion, it’s no longer reasonable to have conspiracy theorists or extreme right-wing politicians govern us much longer.

Jan Niekamp, Saskatoon

Capital gains change threatens family farm

I saw how hard my parents worked over 70-plus years on the family farm. No one I have ever known worked harder or with more dedication. I saw how that example translated into the hard work my siblings undertook through their own farming careers.

I see how that example has been further shared with my nieces and nephews who have taken this brave career on as their own. No one ever felt especially wealthy, nor did they ever feel especially poor, distinctly middle class.

The work was part of a passion and a way of life that superseded the promise of great wealth, the embodiment of the family farm. It also brings with it a risk of failure those of us who toil in workday jobs do not ever typically face.

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To see all of this put at risk by an ill-conceived change to capital gains inclusion rates by those currently in power reminds me of the words of the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who was know as the Iron Lady.

She famously said of socialist governments: “They always run out of other people’s money.”

Mike Cey,Saskatoon

Moe sees revitalization as MLAs depart

With a tear in his eye, Scott Moe watches all his richly compensated MLAs head for the exits. Trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, Moe calls this revitalization. Better would be realization that the problem is him. A fish rots from the head down and the Saskatchewan Party government is one smelly poisson.

Health care in shambles. Education a smoking wreck. Ministers openly deceiving. “Classrooms, care and communities.” Wonder if Moe was aware of how laughable that government slogan was when he approved the billboards.

When running a province, you need a more fulsome playbook besides the two words Moe has in his — “Blame Trudeau” followed by “don’t make Jeremy Harrison mad.”

Tim Krause, Saskatoon

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