Sask Party Leadership Convention

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And the choice for a new Premier following the retirement of Brad Wall.


8,500 votes are needed to win, on to the next rounds. Looks like a horse race.


With that, the card-carrying federal Liberal is dropped from the ballot.
Round four and the lead changes.


The new Premier Designate of Saskatchewan is Scott Moe.


Open thread.

40 Replies to “Sask Party Leadership Convention”

  1. Only .28% off the ballot for the second round and then 1.32% for the third.
    Might I suggest that voting rules for these kind of candidate elections eliminate all candidates who get less than 10% of the vote? In this instance it would certainly speed things up…

  2. I am watching CTV for the results and CTV is/was openly rooting for the liberal Wyant.

  5. Correct me if I’m wrong here but wasn’t Scott Moe the candidate making the most noise about the importance of investing more in education. It looks like the teachers have been at it again and didn’t that work out super for Alberta and Ontario with the teacher’s pick running the province.
    These ranked ballot elections nay good.

  6. Bummer … he’s not a womyn of culler
    He’ll lose to the transgendered womyn of culler … in a landslide of virtue signaling voters

  7. Scott Moe had said on his personal website that Brad Wall had chosen him to be Minister of Environment with the focus on never allowing a carbon tax in Sask.
    So there’s that. I knew very little about him.
    https://twitter.com/ScottMoeSK

  9. Good luck with your new leader.
    Hope that Wall takes a few years off, recharges, and wants to take Canada back from Trudy’s despicable hands

  10. So exciting. I hope the new leader tries to out green signal the old one. By saying things like “9000% renewable by 2018”.
    The only way to win elections is out green the Greens, and out Marx the NDP, and out virtue signal the Liberals. And if CBC tells you that someone is unelectable, MAKE SURE YOU DO WHAT THE CBC SAYS cause then they will become your friends.

  11. I’m happy. I have worked with Scott Moe when I was in rural municipal government and was always impressed with his solid views and assistance. He is no slouch and does attend church.

  15. Wall might be the most overrated PRemier in Canadian history. Not a Conservative and clueless about the issues facing the confederation.

  17. Wall is a spent political force. He would be unelectable east of Manitoba. He can’t speak fwench… so it’s lights out.
    He had a good run.

  18. Confederation has been a lost cause for at least 60 years. Your use of the term is a necessary and sufficient condition to declare you clueless.
    If Saskatchewan had left Canada 60 years ago, we would have saved ourselves. But it has also been too late for use for a good long time now.

  19. You’re entitled to your opinion Gord but you’re wrong. Brad was a strong advocate for SK through some really trying times. Just for hellery this afternoon I plotted GDP for all the provinces for the last 5 available years (up to 2016). Alberta took a nosedive after 2014; SK remained pretty well flat. ON & QU showed a lot stronger than I expected but that’s irrelevant to the point I’m making. Brad Wall grew the SK economy and diversified our GDP. He’s always been clearly SK first. I don’t give a damn about whatever point you were trying to make about “the issues facing the confederation” – his prime responsibility is the issues facing Saskatchewan and there was never any doubt about where he stood on them.

  20. Thanks Ken I feel better knowing you’re ok with Moe. I always get nervous when a politician talks about ‘investing in education’ because usually it means ‘cave to teacher’s demands’ and who could forget Alberta’s Redford gaming the leadership vote with instant PC votes from the education bureaucracy.

  21. The country has a constitution whether you agree with it or not. And it has flaws that will doom this confederation if they aren’t dealt with. Wall (and you) are blind to that reality.

  23. Nice to see how happy you are with Trudy. Oh, Goldwater isn’t available either, he’s dead.

  24. Wall had an almost unprecedented opportunity to make huge cuts to the sask govt and he didn’t have the guts and philosophically was a lot more red than many on this site want to admit.

  25. Never heard of him but PLEASE GOD let his middle name be Henry or Herman so that his abbreviated name can be S.H.Moe.

  26. I assume you meant conservative and Confederation (not really quibbling over upper / lower case – can be a case of auto-spell, but want to make sure we’re discussing the same terms).
    When is the last time Alberta had a conservative premier? Yet any premier in the intervening 40 years or more looks great compared to Notley.

  27. the marvelous Trudeau constitution, of lawyers, by lawyers, for lawyers. a document that should be burnt along with the communist manifesto.

  28. A Premier committed to education. Sounds good. I will truly be impressed when I see any politician demand/ensure that financial literacy becomes a core study in high schools. Such study would educate a population that would not be impressed with politicians who promise a lot of ‘stuff’ they cannot deliver. We have suffered through many years of federal and provincial governments who have debased the standard of living of Canadians. All political parties have done this.
    Accountability has to be brought to bear in Canadian politics. No better way to do that than an informed population that can make their own decisions about issues that cost them scarce after tax dollars.

  29. This. Wall mostly sucked. The NDP government preceding him did more to reform Saskatchewan. Wall only started to get good and make reforms when the money taps turned off because the CANPOTEX cartel collapsed and the price of potash fell. He also vandalized shares in PotashCorp. What a piece of trash. The people around here are low grade tribalists, all you have to do is oppose the carbon taxa and they’ll fall in line. They don’t care about anything else.

  32. “The NDP government preceding him did more to reform Saskatchewan.”
    The government of Lorne Calvert? Interesting observation. Please provide one example as I may have missed something.

  33. The shadow of Tommy Douglas is spread across SK. No politician of any stripe would think of cutting the size of government.
    Wall did what he could. Should he have more? Certainly but the backlash from even within the SK Party would have been significant. He took out the bus line. The next ndp government will replace it.
    The public service unions own Saskatchewan and a lot of the farm crowd are closet CCF’ers.

  35. If Brad Wall was in any way Sask First, then Sask would have abandoned Canada under his watch. Brad Wall was Canada first; and Canada means Ontario and Quebec only. Anyone who thinks “Canada” means anything other than “Ontario and Quebec” is ignorant. Either accidentally or willfully. Which one are you?

  36. OK. We’ll give credit where credit is due. Calvert did make some good moves regarding taxes and royalties although what he did was basically undoing what his NDP predecessors had put in place. As for Johnstone’s article …. anyone raising the spectre of Grant Devine and attempting to link Wall to Devine’s government is simply grasping at straws. The article by Mintz is over seven years old and his dire predictions turned out to be inaccurate.
    Abtrapper is correct about the shadow of Tommy Douglas. Even something as simple as turfing a government owned bus company that had lost money for well over 30 years took political courage when, in reality, it was a no-brainer to sensible people.

  37. FYI, I am not interested in any leader, or any party, that is not fully committed to burning Canada to the ground. The milch cow cartoon was the truth. The truth has been known for at least 100 years. Nothing has changed. Nothing ever will change. No group large enough to affect change has ever formed. The west’s face will always have the boots of Ontario and Quebec stamping on it. As long as the west remains part of Canada.
    Trudeau’s charter is perfect, always has been. It does exactly what it was designed to do; destroy freedom, crush the individual, grow the power of government. Trudeau’s charter was never anything but the thin edge of the wedge.
    The easiest way to get slaves, has alwaya been to get people to volunteer. Usually by trickery. You have public education to thank.

  38. Kevin – I’m not as pessimistic as you. My forefathers came from Russia. I’m eternally grateful I live where I do.
    Could the country do better? Rhetorical.
    Economies ebb/flow. Politics do as well.
    I’m not happy with the direction of the country at the moment but am not ready to throw it all away.

  39. “It’s going to be the same bad management and cruel and heartless cuts,” said Saskatchewan NDP’s interim leader Nicole Sarauer.”
    The NDP can’t even issue a simple congratulatory message without showing their complete lack of class. This reads like an SGEU ad. I think it’s time for outfits like SGEU and its mouthpieces like Sarauer to add some specifics to their accusations and quit throwing around crap and hoping it will stick. And no … axing STC does not qualify as a “cruel and heartless cut”.

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