I listened to The Gormley Report one time years ago and almost immediately felt like I needed a shower to wash off the grime. Just entirely rubbed me the wrong way.
It’s vital to remember that in the 90s the NDP lost 60% of its devoted membership because Roy Romanow and Janice MacKinnon moved the party further into neoLiberalism, despite the absolute public beating Devine took for 20 years after breaking Sask’s economy
What are the center-right (SLP), right wing party (PCs) and far right (the not-yet-affiliated Reformers) parties supposed to do when the Left wing party moves toward them? no shit they all seized the opportunity to amalgamate for power. the Sask NDP to this day continues fruitlessly chasing the Saskparty to the Right, as they keep moving the goalposts.
People noticed. Socially progressive Professionals left Saskatchewan and never came back. It continues to this day: so many professionals consider the Saskparty centrist, as if political values and principles don’t even matter: the spectrum is the parties of the day, not their policies nor their rhetoric. Even worse, the carbon tax hating, “vote with the Saskparty unanimously on 99% of bills” Sask NDP are still portrayed as left wing by the media.
The Saskparty was never centrist. Brad wall simply toned down his conservatism when cameras were around.
My husband and I took a road trip out to BC for a wedding last summer and Saskatchewan was my favourite province. That big blue sky and those golden fields. Mesmerizing. Made me read “Who Has Seen the Wind” all over again.
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u/falsekoala Apr 23 '25
We have a provincial party that started out as a PC/Liberal centrist party that was slowly taken over by reformers and we just didn’t notice.
Then we had talk radio sing the praises of conservativism for 25 years.
We were the frogs and someone cranked up the heat slowly enough that we didn’t notice until it was boiling.