To no one’s surprise the opposition New Democrats have blasted Monday’s provincial budget, dismissing it as a “placeholder pre-election budget that presents no recovery plan” in a statement.
“This is not a plan,” said opposition leader Ryan Meili in a news release.
“This budget shows that Premier Moe has no idea how to bring about a recovery that works for people. There’s nothing here for seniors, nothing for childcare, no money for safely reopening and resourcing schools for a pandemic, falling per-student funding for students, and no commitment to hiring Saskatchewan workers and Saskatchewan companies to build our infrastructure.”
Finance Critic Trent Wotherspoon also criticized the budget, pointing to concerns about transparency. He accused the Sask. Party of “hiding much of the budget, once again” in a news release.
“It’s no coincidence that this is the shortest budget this government has presented. Not only is there no plan for a recovery, but no projections beyond the current year. We know what that means: if given the chance, next year it’ll be knives for public services, and our cherished Crowns on the auction block.”
During his remarks in the legislature in response to the budget, Wotherspoon repeated those sentiments, and then moved an amendment which basically amounted to no-confidence in the government. In the recorded division that followed, government members easily defeated that opposition motion.
