Announcement at 10am: Speculation is that he’s announcing a departure from politics.
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Speculation is confirmed: Brad Wall retiring from politics and will continue in his role until a new SaskParty leader is in place. Open thread!
“He broke the back of the New Democratic Party in Saskatchewan, and that is no small thing“ – Colby Cosh
If that is the case then Goodbye to the last respectable Canadian. The tax payer has lost and there is no one in this country left worth voting for.
Compare and contrast Premier Wall to the enormous waste of oxygen currently acting as Prime Minister. Not unlike comparing the 2017 LA Dodgers to a T-ball team made up of 5 year olds and even that comparison is generous. We Saskatchewanians have been extremely fortunate for the past decade largely due to Mr. Wall’s common sense leadership. If indeed he is stepping down, we can only hope and pray that his replacement can carry on and keep the rabid socialists on the outside looking in or this province will reverse course and rapidly slide downhill at much the same rate as the clown show to the west of us. First order of business if the NDP are once again running the show … introduce a carbon tax and reinstate the state-owned bus company.
So its funny he is using social media as his primary platform to make the upcoming announcement. Remember when it was bloggers and social media he threw under the bus when he was first elected Premier?
If Andrew Scheer wipes out in the next federal election Brad Wall will quickly find himself being ‘drafted’ back into politics, this time at the federal level.
I take no pleasure from the fact that I called this months ago on SDA. Politicians have a shelf life and Wall had pretty much reached his. The economy probably shortened his term.
The Sask Party has had 2 leaders and they were both good. Hermanson didn’t win but he set the table.
No reason to think this is the end. There are good political thinkers in SK. They’re not all in the ndp (sarc).
There’s room at the top in Alberta & BC now Brad… come west, you’ll like it.
.. and seriously, thank you for what you’ve done for Saskatchewan.
Good. It’s wise to step down at your sell he probably should have done it sooner, but better late than Harper/Christie.
He also kind of sucked. He made some minor tweaks near the beginning of his regime that were probably less noteworthy than those made the NDP in its last term. Otherwise he loved spending lots of money and he pushed the feds to vandalize PotashCorp shares. He only got good after potash prices fell with the collapse of CANPOTEX (thanks Belarus!) and I will say his last budget was pretty glorious.
Yeah, remember way back when Brad ditched SDA because Kate correctly stated that a bad dose would clean up a lot of drug problems? Haha. He had to play politician and denounce her. And now it seems the elitist doesn’t have the balls to fight it out against the enemies trying to force Sask into the utopian fold of Trudeau and Wynne.
The next leader had better stay firmly in place against any outside interference into Saskatchewan. You know the only politicians that are any good are people who aren’t politicians (spit), that only get into politics to save themselves and their fellow countrymen (think 1776 USA). Then you might get a couple generations after of good governance until elitism and corruption take over and things turn to sh!t. Then I guess 1776 men are needed again to get back on course.
So, Kate! When are you going to run for leadership.
You have a strong sense of liberty, common sense and thick skin.
Time for some cream to come to the top?
Speaking for my fellow Ontarians, we’d gladly trade you our Premier Wynne for Brad, and we’ll throw in a couple of first-round draft picks and any six current cabinet ministers of your choice. Hell, let’s make it an even dozen. We’ll even pay you to take them.
Mr. Wall, Please do the west a big favour before you hang up the skates. Pull Sask. out of Canada, set up a republic so Alberta and Manitoba can find the balls to follow.
50% unreliable power by 2030 Brad Wall is stepping down. I wonder if 60% unreliable power, or 70% unreliables, or even 90% unreliables by date X will be the next Saskatchewan party leader? Oh wait, that is a surity.
Registration leads to confiscation; it is not just firearms. SGI takes your car for drunk driving; everyone agrees it is a great idea.
How long before you think SGI is confiscating diesels with to much NO, or to much particulate? How long after that before non-electric is a reason for confiscation?
How long before they start confiscation of refrigerators, because they are to inefficient for a power grid with unreliables hokked in?
What’s that? You thought crown corporations were good for you, and not just another tool of the deep state?
There goes my plan to move to Saskatchewan if the shit really hits the fan in Ontario 🙁
Does this mean another province that benefitted from free enterprise government will be handed over to the socialists, to undo hard earned prosperity?
Canadians consistently let the perfect become the enemy of the good and fall prey to the statist utopians who value inflation & war above liberty.
Shorter Shamrock: “Canada is majority stupid”.
Can the next leader please privatize liquor stores, not the half measures that are going on now. Do what Alberta did but take it a step further and privatize the warehousing as well.
I’ll second that, look at BC. There is nothing but despair and lost jobs that the socialists can bring. The Utopian welfare state, just awesome, MAN!
Brad Wall and the Sask party made Saskatchewan, like Alberta once was, into a place where people were willing to move to for a shot at a better life financially. The thousands of people who moved here over the last 10 years attest to that. We can thank him today for his part in that and leave the negative stuff aside for a few hours. IMO
Useless as premier. Did next to nothing to get rid of government monopolies.
Clueless about senate reform (and constitutional issues in general) which caused more harm than saying nothing at all.
Squandered one of the strongest mandates a conservative has ever had in Canadian history.
Hopefully his successor will be a real conservative who wants to get things done.
Pretty much this, except that his most recent budget did take some real steps. He only did that because the drop in potash prices forced him to. Truly there is no greater evil than commodity price inflation.
Hopefully you are a real conservative who will succeed him and get done all the things you think he should have.
I’m a little disheartened to hear on the news, that Premier Brad Wall has announced he will retire next year.
He has represented well, the image of a wise father. One who views governing as bearing a responsibility to all, to weigh decisions on merit, to speak honestly and reject the class warfare of identity politics.
My relative is a MLA in the Wall government. If his general discouragement in the political process is any indicator I suspect burnout is a huge problem. I think he is representative of the Wall MLA’s who came into power as Reform advocates. They honestly thought that sitting down and talking through a problem could lead to concensus. What he told me was how duplicitous people can be and how willing people can be to adhere to a political conviction or economic fallacy.
As always I questioned how any change can be made when progressives control education, media and government infrastructure. Won’t happen as it is not happening now.
When are we going to get someone who will get rid of all the crowns? Let’s start with SaskPower. SaskPower provides electricity what, about 75% of the time in my experience, judging by how often I have to go around setting clocks on the microwave and the stove. Any contract I signed for any other service, would be into contractual penalties long before that. That is the thing about a crown corporation; YOU PAY A BILL EVERY MONTH WHETHER THE POWER WAS ON OR NOT.
We also need to simply fire 99.9% of everyone who works for government in this province. What are we at now, are we past 50% of the adult population collecting a government paycheque yet?
We need to eliminate the concept of “public service” being a career, we need to take away the vote from people who work for government; think about the fundamental conflict of interest of the person who decides how much and how to spend, getting a say in who is elected.
We need to tear down the palaces that we built for our masters, and make them use generic office space and sit in cubicles just like the rest of us. Honestly, Saskatchewan’s provincial legislature, is that an actual BILLION DOLLAR PROPERTY? Why is a billion dollar property required to run a place with such a relatively small population?