My beautiful province of Saskatchewan is going to the polls on November 7th so last night I began researching the parties and their platforms in the hopes of making an informed decision. As this excellent Wikipedia page shows (someone has put a lot of time into it!) my riding of Saskatoon Nutana has exactly three candidates. The incumbent Pat Atkinson, who hasn’t exactly set the world on fire in the three million years she and the NDP have been in office, the Saskatchewan Party’s Don Johannesson, and Green Party leader Sandra Finley.
The Saskatchewan Party (or Sask Party as they are known) are basically the remnants of the old PC Party, hardly my favorite political entity of all time, and looking at Sandra Finley’s website has me convinced to not vote for her. Shouldn’t the leader of a political party at least be able to pony up a half decent web portal?
The NDP have all these great initiatives they want to start, my question is why didn’t they do it while they have been in office for the aforementioned three million years? The Sask Party want us to have nice campsites and has a great idea about drug benefits for children, but what about low income adults who aren’t getting the meds they need?
This is going to be a difficult decision. I don’t want to vote for the NDP and I’m not crazy about voting for the Sask Party either. Both parties have been throwing around expensive promises over the last few days that have left me wondering how exactly they plan to pay for it all.
October 17, 2007 at 12:11 am
One thing that scares me about the Sask Party is they want to give businesses an 83% tax cut, but no tax cut for renters. The land lords have been jacking up the rents, especially in Saskatoon, do you really think these land lords are going to pass the savings onto the renters. I am happy the NDP is giving a tax deduction to renters.
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