For immediate release: October 19, 2024
Scott Moe’s Candidate In Regina Northeast Thinks Saskatchewan People Should ‘Quit Yer B*tchin’ About Healthcare
REGINA - Scott Moe’s handpicked candidate in Regina Northeast doesn’t believe the people of Saskatchewan should voice their concerns about the massive failures of the Sask. Party that drove healthcare in the province into last place.
“So, count yourself lucky, Sask peeps, and quit yer b*tchin,” reads a screenshot posted by Singh in September 2023.
In the post’s caption, Singh went further, saying in reference to Saskatchewan’s healthcare system that, “The moral is that most things in life are not always perfect.”
In 2023, more than 4,000 frontline healthcare workers left the profession in Saskatchewan — more than in any other province. “
‘Not perfect?’ This is so out of touch with what I hear every day on the doorsteps. Healthcare has collapsed in Saskatchewan. It’s time for change,” said Jacqueline Roy, Saskatchewan NDP candidate for Regina Northeast.
“Carla Beck and the Saskatchewan NDP have a plan to fix healthcare and get it out of last place. We will invest in hospitals and clinics and make sure there are thousands more people working to provide quality patient care where and when people need it.”
Even as healthcare hit a breaking point in recent weeks with Saskatoon emergency rooms at three times capacity, people dying of cancer before ever seeing a doctor, and critical service blackouts plaguing hospitals across the province, Singh hasn’t changed his mind. In an interview on Tuesday this week with AccessNow TV, Singh said “I think the Saskatchewan Party has been doing a great job for the last 16 years.”
Roy said, like Moe, Singh refuses to even acknowledge there is a problem with Saskatchewan healthcare.
“Hallway healthcare, a lack of dignity and privacy for families, months of waiting on lists for biopsies and immense pressure on our incredible healthcare staff — I hear dozens of problems daily on the doorsteps. Having the audacity to tell people to be grateful and accept the situation is not only tone deaf – it’s just plain wrong,” she said.
“As MLA for Regina Northeast, I will stand for better healthcare. It’s time for change before things get worse.” Moe and the Sask. Party released a platform last weekend that will lead to deep cuts in healthcare.
Carla Beck has proposed a real healthcare strategy that would invest an additional $1.1 billion in the health system, to retain thousands of healthcare workers, hire 800 new professionals into critically needed healthcare jobs, cut emergency room wait times and more.
A full copy of Singh’s comments are attached to the release.
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