It’s not very often you see the provincial leader of the opposition smear someone you know during question period, but I saw that on April 1, when NDP Leader Ryan Meili smeared Jason LeBlanc, an Estevan farmer and auctioneer.
Back in 2016, Jason hired me to do a photo and video project documenting a year on his family farm. Having grown up on a farm myself, I was amazed at the scale and complexity of his operation, 15,000 acres in size. But more significantly, I got to see a work ethic that is next to impossible to match. If he sleeps, I don’t know when. The video series just rolled over half a million views on YouTube for the primary video, and 800,000 views for another one. In it, you can see for yourself just how hard he and his family work. This is one serious farmer.
Since that time we’ve become friends. We agree on most things, but not everything, and I’m not afraid to tell him that, and he’s not afraid to tell me the same. This is what is called a relationship built on mutual respect.
So imagine my surprise when I watched NDP Leader Ryan Meili take a run at Jason for 13 minutes during question period on April 1, fittingly, April Fool’s Day. Conveniently he did this where he had parliamentary privilege, and can say whatever he wants without reprisal. I say that because his allusions bordered on slanderous.
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Jason delivered the longest speech on Parliament Hill when that convoy made it to Ottawa, saying, “In my hometown of Estevan, Saskatchewan, we are known as the Energy City. We are proud of that claim and proud of our city, but Prime Minister Trudeau’s policies have had profound impacts on our community. The state of uncertainty has clouded investments, killed jobs, eroded community support for programs, made it difficult for businesses to obtain and retain qualified employees, decreased property values and turned people’s dreams and hopes of an amazing life into a nightmare.”
Pretty radical stuff, huh? He spoke in particular about climate change, clean coal, and the carbon tax, and I watched all of it on live feeds on Facebook.
Read it all.
Behind in the polls by a margin of 55% – 31%, smear by association is about all Meili has to reach for these days.
Well, things got a little heated at the legislature yesterday.
But Moe accused Meili of a double standard on Tuesday, pointing to a demonstration the NDP leader attended on Monday.
“The NDP leader also attended a rally just as recent as yesterday, Mr. Speaker. That rally was about minimum wage, but the person who organized that rally is an outspoken anti-pipeline activist,” said Moe.
The premier’s staff pointed to specific tweets posted by Saima Desai, who helped organize the Fight for $15 rally and is also editor of Briarpatch magazine. Some date back months; others are more recent. Desai makes remarks like “abolish prisons” and points to a letter about “abolishing the police.”
“By his new-found standards, does that mean that the leader of the NDP shares both of those positions?” Moe asked. “By his new-found standards, was his attendance at yesterday’s event an endorsement of the organizer’s anti pipeline, anti-police and anti-prison agenda?”
You can catch the full exchange on video here. (forward to 2:01:40 mark)
Jason Leblanc had a few words for him, too.
To the respected leader of the Sk NDP. @ryanmeili pic.twitter.com/OCQPtbA48l
— Jason LeBlanc (@jasonauctioneer) April 1, 2019
A word of encouragement for Mr LeBlanc from a slandered deplorable emeritus – Cam Broten’s political career died in ignoble defeat three years ago and I’m still here. I wager we’ll be both be around to taste the sweet schadenfreudy goodness of Meili’s departure, too.
Footnote: As I was pulling this post together, I caught this in passing — CBC veteran reporter Stefani Langenegger, her finger still searching for the pulse of the province.
Sad.
Morning update: The cheap shot headlines are rolled out in a reminder of how much they hate us.
The left wing communists in the NDP are disgraceful ignorant people. They need to be educated about freedom and hard work and stop trying to take what people have worked hard to produce. What Canadians have worked for does not belong to any government. We let them take some of it, too much at present, to run the business of the country. They are not our superiors they are our inferiors and are supposed to work for us, we do not work for them. Wake up Canadians, you are being played as fools.
The Leader of the NDP Commie’s is what is known as a Shizen Weasel. All Politicians are greasy slimy pcs of shit. Wee Ryan is a good example of that. I hope the Farmer catches him someday outside the protection of the Sask Parliament and gets his justice.
Yellow vests are “tainted”? The French think otherwise.
Wear your favourite hockey jersey/Canada hoodie next time to a rally.
Rancid journals can’t touch that.
No, the https://prairiefreedom.ca/about.html should have a clothing line.
I would buy a “The West is OUT; UDI TIME!” hoody and wear it everywhere that I might be seen in public.
Screw billboards. You get 300,000 people at the same rally, all wearing in essence a “don’t tread upon me” sign, …
Live free, or die a Canadian slave.
UDI is the only way to end Indian Treaty’s and make them tax paying citizen’s, end Official Bilingualism, restore Freedom of Speech, Restore the Right of Self Defense, End all UN Treaty’s and create a Country were the Greasy Slimy Politician’s have to do as the People say. Some kind of a Constitution were the People are 1st and the Politician’s are nobody’s.
Example Switzerland, can anyone name a President of Switzerland? You can’t because they are ego less servant’s of the People. Paid to manage and do as they are told with strong restraints on them. They are nobody’s like a Bank Manager. Seen and not heard.
The Provinces in the present arrangement with Canada are nothing more than Colonies and the people working on a Tax Farm like dogs paying for shit they never asked for and do not want.
yep…I feel your anger – share it big time Watcher.
Tax Farm indeed.
My Vision: Ab – Sask Separate – Mb, NWT & Yukon ask to join (We accept), create a country with a Swiss like constitution…. One being that Communism is Outlawed. Taxes of Any kind must have clear purpose & will be VOTED ON. Plus the 1st & 2nd US Amendments at a bare min.
That I would live to see that day…..
Voting Independance Party in the next 2 weeks.
Voting MAX in 5 months. Scheer is a Fkn JOKE.
Trudeau gets back in…??
Separation process begins in Earnest.
Disagree Steakman. Alberta and Alberta alone. Let Sask petition to join later. They have too many socialists in their midst and it would only pollute what would be a spectacular movement in Alberta.
They can join once they get rid of the crown corporations and their other predilections so prevalent in Sask. Same for northern BC. (The lower mainland can go straight to Hell.)
Manitoba? same as Saskatchewan!
There will be no time to waste on unions trying to build upon their kingdoms while key separation issues are negotiated or fought over. And there will be fights! You cannot dissect a live organism. Even if it is parasitic.
The French are anti-semitic and so are their Yellow Vests.
the left is anti-semitic everywhere.
There, FIFY. It’s a trademark of the left.
We need a protest formed of encircling the legislature with many woodsheds, all with their front facing out. That way, we could all go behind the woodshed and teach the NDP schmucks a thing or two. Bunch of pansies!
Working people need to revolt on these bastard’s. Canadians are paying tax on tax on top of tax. Show some guts. They are stealing from your families mouth’s an demanding more.
The only path to survive, is the west out of Canada. Sask party will fight it. NDP will fight it. CPoC will fight it. Liberal party will fight it. Strange how they will all be fast friends when an actual fight threatens to start…
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UDI is the only way. One look at BREXIT should tell any logical person that trying to negotiate Independence will never work. In the Quebec Referendum, what happened? The Liberals used it as an opportunity to steal 300M in the Adscam Larceny Free For All. They used Millions in tax dollars to buy off Quebec. And then began really pumping the Tax Dollars from the Oil and Gas to put Quebec to sleep. Only one solution for the West and the hardworking people of the West. Get The Hell Out of the Corrupt thieving arrangement were Alberta/Sask. are Colonies and Colonials on their knees. And our children and grandchildren are born with a yoke with their name on it. End that shit, go full UDI. That is how the 13 Colonies ended their servitude to England. Do the same with Ottawa.
“Does it help in a pro-energy rally to call climate change “made-up”?
Truth to power, babe…
Exactly. The leftist version of climate change is a made-up fraud to redistribute wealth and reduce the standard of living and freedoms in western countries as well as implement more control of people. It is an updated version of Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm.
Climate change has always existed, just not the ‘another tax will fix it’ and we will beggar you version.
That’s not truth. Man-made climate change is the reality. Deal with it.
Wrong, yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Man-made climate change is a micro-site effect. UHI are the most visible form. Pavement and cement absorb and store heat differently than fields or forests. Change reflection/storage/discharge of solar energy, you affect cloud and fog formation. The idea that humanity has found a control dial for all of the climates of the earth is laughable.
Y Knott – climate change is not “made up”. I have an honours degree in geology back in the day and I certainly learned that climate change is real. Happened back in the day, is happening now, and will happen in the future. The only issue these days is how much human activity is contributing to said change.
If we’re going to change hearts and minds, we have to go out there and proclaim loudly, “Climate change is real, it has been with us since the earth was born, and it will go on until the earth dies.”. Carbon dioxide is plant food, not pollution; should we succeed in removing as much of the same from the atmosphere as various “experts” say we should, food production would founder and there would be massive famines.
Our family has always practiced “go gently this good earth” as we have walked through life. So I resent greatly the push by government to punish what is already a frugal lifestyle while representatives of same continue to have annual carbon footprints which our family couldn’t think of getting near in a decade.
Isn’t it funny that they left off his key word, “catastrophic”. The idea that climate changes isn’t new, nor wrong. The idea that what happens every 120,000 years will cause more disruption and extinctions this time because people are involved is a real head shaker.
If the catastrophists were right then we wouldn’t be here now because the changes during the Younger Dryas around 17,000 years ago were ten times higher than the catastrophists’ worst case and our non-developed ancestors somehow managed to survive.
And be sure to remember, the guy in charge of the province, the one who has a front row seat watching Horgan break laws to stop pipelines and get away with it, lets a carbon tax be implemented in Saskatchewan.
The guy in charge of the fight, is the one in charge of letting it be implemented. Remember that, the next time he asks for a donation, to believe anything he says.
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Scot Moe, and the Ministry of cultivating the appearance of fighting a carbon tax, while in reality being fully on board with a carbon tax.
Perhaps he is waiting for the 567th legal opinion that he asked for…
Con/Lib/NDP just various shades of Communism. Democratic Communism dedicated to the UN Globalist Agenda. Garbage Rats and parasites feeding on the carcass of what used to be Canada. They all promise to do their supporters biding to get the riding and the MP’s job. Then when they are comfortably ensconced at their place at the trough the people can go to hell. They do their Party Leaders bidding and you can go to hell. The Provinces are the same as it is in Ottawa.
You mean “their PALACE at the trough the people can go to hell”. What else would you call the multi-million dollar (and even billion dollar) limestone and marble edifices they insist are so important for “democracy”?
Government should be ran out of cubicles, in quonsets, built on marginal land.
In the free republic of the west:
There shall be no oak desks for “civil servants”.
There shall be no pensions for public service; civil service SHALL NEVER BE A CAREER.
There shall be no salary for civil service; more like jury duty. You do your year (or whatever) and you go back to life. Civil servants can live in civil servant barracks, eat at civil service cafeteria, …
There shall be no palaces built for public service.
There shall be no union circle jerks of “vote for union party, union gets raise, union gives more to union party, repeat”.
Only people with skin in the game shall be able to vote. You pay no taxes? You have no ability to vote for more welfare (see union circle jerk above).
Since civil servants get no salary, THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF GROWING THE CIVIL SERVICE INTO A RELIABLE BIGGER GOVERNMENT VOTING BLOCK.
The courts belong to the people, and the people are free to hold judges in contempt.
There shall be no legal protection for civil servants, that is not enjoyed by all citizens; a wrongful conviction means that YES, THAT JUDGE, THAT JURY, THAT PROSECUTOR, THAT POLICE OFFICER, CAN BE PERSONALLY SUED. You want to be a judge? YOU ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF GETTING IT RIGHT.
You elect representatives, THEY ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITY TOO. If they promised no deficit, and they get into it by a billion on the first day, THEY CAN PERSONALLY BE SUED, THEY CAN BE JAILED.
You do not elect rulers, YOU ELECT COMPETENCE. And if they fail, you punish them.
Kevin you and I agree. Moe and Turdeau are two peas in the same pod. They both believe in man made global warming and both have wasted billions of dollars fighting a non existent problem. I keep trying to find ways to show Moe the error of his ways but he won’t listen. I keep coming back to the saying “you can’t fix stupid”.
In Saskatchewan we are now paying two carbon taxes. Turdeaus and Moes. Moe’s is hidden in our Sask Power utility bill (CC&S) and Moe’s wind farms (bird killers) and solar panel rebate program. It’s all phony virtue signalling. No wonder they can’t balance the budget with all the waste.
When their only argument is “Well, at least XXX is not the NDP”, or “Well, at least XXX is not Trudeau”…
What are the actually trying prove? They did not try arguing on policy, on record, did not try out promising, …
“Does it help in a pro-energy rally to call climate change “made-up”?
Here’s a challenge for you Stefani Langenegger. Listen to what McKitrick says about the models and the warming.
The media torques the study for a certain slant. The start date affects the result. The small warming is more or less an artifact of the lack of temperature gathering sites in the north. Where there are no sites the temperatures are extrapolated from models. And what a surprise; the study comes out when we’re hit with a carbon tax.
– Yes, but McKitrick is wrong; she just KNOWS he is! “The media torques the study for a certain $lant” – there, fixed it for ya.
“It can be very hard to make somebody understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it…”
“The small warming is more or less an artifact of the lack of temperature gathering sites in the north. ”
This is simply no longer credible. While McKitrick has raised some good points in the past, it’s really time to move on and accept reality.
What reality? Where you live does the weather seem warmer today than ____(fill in the blank) years ago?
Canada’s share of the world’s CO2 production is so small the carbon dioxide tax amounts to a cruel joke that Canada’s government is playing on her citizens.
This latest study is nothing more than the same old hockey stick that M & M debunked years ago.
Yes, the reality that 100 year old temperature records that are rurally sited have recorded 5 times as many daily low records as daily high records over the last decade shows the growing divorce of the models from reality. Composite temperatures don’t reflect this truth. Why?
“the temperatures are extrapolated”
And averaged.
Multiplied, and divided, over and over.
And with each calculation, the error band widens.
Obviously Ryan Meili supports the UN (Soros’ Open Borders) Migration Compact. Yellow Vesters do not, although I believe they support legal migration.
The Yellow Vesters have been the victims of the classic Saul Alinsky Rules for Radical campaign. Isolate and demonize.
Other than that, good for Jason LeBlanc for standing up for himself against the communist.
Oh, btw, good for the French protestors.
Not one person in the NDP understands where wealth comes from.
Meili’s a POS.
A reminder to the here assembled SaskatchewanIANS *
TICK THAT BOX
// As Canadians in those four provinces fill in their tax forms or file online over the next few weeks, they may notice the Climate Action Incentive box. Checking that box — regardless of a taxpayer’s level of income or amount of tax owing — will mean that they will receive a bigger tax refund. The amount of the refund varies by province to ensure that all carbon taxes collected within each province stay in the province they came from.
[…] In the more emissions-intensive province of Saskatchewan, where coal-fired power still provides most electricity, the rebates are higher: $305 for an individual, $457 for a couple and $609 for a family of four. For about 80 per cent of households, the rebate amounts will be more than the cost of federal carbon tax for the entire year.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/mark-cameron/carbon-tax-rebate-taxes_a_23704144/
* Checked that ending here:
Shit Saskatchewanians Say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESIkrxNq1GE
“can I borrow your pitchfork/”
migawd people, where ELSE but a web blog can one so quickly FIND OUT about this stuff, all that ‘dot connecting’ in SECONDS.
the power system boys dont like it, we are in the Golden Age of blogging. all downhill from here.
many will see it happen, and be unable for numerous reasons to so much as think about it. even THAT will be dangerous, leading to ‘slip ups’ reminiscent of Germans listening to British radio broadcasts up to and during WW II.
sign of the times.
Which why Blogs like this will be censured for swaying elections, why do you think they charge people for publishing election results.
Yet Justa Turd had Soros meddling in the election, and Obama’s top hand campaign genius the whole year prior to the election not to mention the Foreign Foundations pouring in Millions to enviro groups and fat assed Indian Chief’s.
Hi How ARe Yah, Hi How ARe Yah were’s my money, send new money old money all gone now.
“all that ‘dot connecting’ in SECONDS.”
Like a lunatic in his basement.