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Mandryk: Government opts for revisionism over resolving problems
When a government tin can rewrite its own history rather than acquire from it, it's emboldened to make the aforementioned stupid mistakes all once again.
The second biggest trouble is this Saskatchewan Party government opts for revision rather than resolution.
The biggest problem — albeit, a problem more than for the balance of united states than it seems to exist for the Sask. Political party — is that it keeps getting away with this approach.
When a regime can rewrite (or at least, change) its own history rather than larn from it, it's emboldened to make the same stupid mistakes all over again.
Of form, the Sask. Party administration isn't exactly the first government that's heard the siren of historical revisionism.
Somewhat like today's NDP that glosses over its own government's bungled deals (run across: Spudco, Channel Lake natural gas, Guyana Electrical Company, NST Network, Navigata, Retx, the Chilean Gas Sur company, Broe Industries), bad policy choices and patronage of its own regime, what we run across from today's Sask. Party administration follows a design of behaviour for any aging regime.
(It would exist interesting to add up the Sask. Political party's own list that includes the Global Transportation Hub, the Regina bypass and the Lean consulting initiative for the health system. Y'all'd have the makings of a great political debate over which party achieved the least for the wads of taxation dollars splashed around.)
Even so, the biggest difference with this Sask. Party administration is that it's a party that knows niggling else.
It has practised the fine fine art of revisionism since its 1997 inception in which Liberals who had just shivved the leader that took them to official opposition status joined forces with Progressive Conservatives scrambling to escape the biggest political abuse scandal in Canadian history.
Of course, its version of history has go a more noble one — a seeming harmless political folk tale told around the party convention floor campfires of people following Saskatchewan'south desire for i united right-wing alternative to the NDP.
There's footling damage in that, but what is harmful is revisionism that supersedes delivery to solid, responsible public policy.
At least the by NDP assistants was somewhat admonished past having reports and even extensive public hearings into Spudco and Channel Lake.
The Sask. Party? Not so much. Instead, it has always gone directly to revisionism.
This has clearly been the problem in the past viii months of the COVID-xix pandemic in which Premier Scott Moe and Health Minister Paul Merriman have refused to acknowledge recent record hospitalizations and death tolls that potentially stem from authorities choices to exist first in the state to remove restrictions.
We had 625 Saskatchewan COVID-nineteen deaths by Sept. xiii, 2021. Since then, we've had 648 more COVID-19-related deaths — 1,273 in total, according to terminal week's update.
Nosotros need to examine why at that place's been more deaths in the by viii months of this pandemic when full vaccination was readily available to most everyone older than five years one-time than we saw in the first xvi months when vaccines weren't always available.
Saskatchewan's virtually non-existent provincial Liberal party on Tuesday launched a petition for a provincewide plebiscite on property an independent inquiry into the handling of COVID-nineteen.
While likely a bid for political attention, it's hard to dispute the value of the Liberals' push for this. Unsurprisingly, the government reaction to this was drowned out past the chirp of crickets.
In fact, the last thing nosotros've heard from Moe was a retweet of a favourable column suggesting federal health-intendance transfers accept decreased to 22 per cent from 50 per cent.
One could keep at bang-up length over what Academy of Regina professor Tom McIntosh calls the premiers' repeated and deliberate revisionism on how federal transfers work. Instead, allow u.s.a. note the revisionism of this Sask. Party authorities leaving $800 million a year on the table because information technology didn't want to embarrass old Bourgeois prime number minister Stephen Harper over his failure to keep his 2006 election hope to set up the formula.
Sadly, this battle against the Sask. Political party government'southward revisionism seems never ending.
Mandryk is the political columnist for the Regina Leader-Mail and the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
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