REGINA – The three leaders left out of Wednesday night’s televised debate all said voters likely came away uninformed.
“It became a two-person shout fest,” Saskatchewan Green Party Leader, Victor Lau, said.
Lau would’ve liked to share the Green Party’s plan for health care, anti-poverty and highways.
“I think people are looking for real change in Saskatchewan. Meaning, they want something to move and they want to know how the government is going to move it,” Lau said.
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“How do we move our education system and our planning for health care into the future? They don’t want to hear people yelling at each other about spending promises. I think they’re really looking for a plan.”
“We would’ve talked about infrastructure,” Saskatchewan Liberal Party Leader Darrin Lamoureux said.
“Infrastructure is going to be the key to the growth of Saskatchewan. We have to be able to get our pipelines in place. We have to be able to get our rail lines in place. Capital expenditures on infrastructure expenditures is key,” Lamoureux said.
“You need all three levels of government contributing to infrastructure. You need the First Nations government, you need the federal government, and you need the provincial government.”
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Lamoureaux took to Twitter to reiterate his own platform.
During the debate, Saskatchewan PC Leader Rick Swenson was tweeting about the future for Saskatchewan’s farmers.
“Did either one of them talk about agriculture? No,” Swenson said.
“The only industry that’s saving Saskatchewan’s bacon right now in an economic sense is agriculture, and neither one of them talked about it. Neither one of them talked about how we’re going to move our products to market.”
Swenson said he was happy to see the Regina bypass project brought up numerous times by NDP Leader Cam Broten, but that he never heard an answer on how it’s going to benefit residents.
“How are we going to get through the next 10 years without going so far in the hole with projects like the bypass that aren’t contributing to long-term economic activity,” Swenson asked.
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