REGINA – With just two days left until voters go to the polls, Saskatchewan Party leader Brad Wall and NDP leader Cam Broten were out in full force Saturday, pushing hard in the final leg of their campaigns.
Speaking outside the F.H. Wigmore Hospital in Moose Jaw, Wall defended his party’s record, saying it’s not perfect, but it is a record of action, compared to the NDP’s inaction when they were in power.
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“Whenever you open a new facility, you’re going to have adjustments.”
“It’s easy to sit on the sidelines after someone has done the work to get it done, not just the government but the health region and local people to come up with their share. It’s easy to sit on the sideline and chirp and complain about it”, Wall explained.
Visiting 16 constituencies in Regina, NDP leader Cam Broten fired back, saying cuts are coming if the Sask Party is elected.
“Wall has wanted this campaign to be about anything other than the cuts that are planned, and the fact that he blew through the rainy day fund during our sunniest days.”
“He doesn’t want to talk about the fact that he’s keeping the budget under wraps”, Broten said.
The latest Mainstreet Poll suggests the Sask Party is on its way to winning a majority government, with 54 per cent of the vote compared to the NDP’s 28 per cent.
In what may be the only thing they agree on, both party leaders say they’re not speculating on the numbers, and are waiting until that last ballot is cast.
“It is not over until the buzzer. It’s not over until Monday 8 o’clock and we have to go right to the end. There’s no victory formation, no kneeling down and you got to keep running the ball”, Wall said.
“We’re focused on the job, that’s how I judge a good campaign. I know, I’ll leave the pundits and the journalists to make the predictions. What I’m focused on is working flat out between now and election day to get a result that is actually good for Saskatchewan”, Broten said.
Voters head to the polls Monday, April 4.
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