It may be that Saskatchewan now has the worst representation in Ottawa this province has ever seen.
hat said, one can take virtually any period of our political history and find Saskatchewan opposition voices like Tommy Douglas or M.J. Coldwell or John Diefenbaker who spoke for Saskatchewan interests with eloquence and passion
So what will be the legacy of the current 13 Saskatchewan Conservative MPs -- the highest percentage of representation in a federal government caucus this province has ever enjoyed? Will names like Tom Lukiwski or Andrew Scheer or Brad Trost or Gerry Ritz or Dave Batters or Maurice Vellacott or Carol Skelton or Lynn Yelich or David Anderson or Ed Komarnicki be remembered so fondly?
Or will they be remembered as the group that had the potential to do the most for Saskatchewan -- but did the least? Frankly, will they be remembered at all?
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I sometimes wonder if the rest of the country thinks Saskatchewan people are like their politicians. The current crop of MP's is less than impressive.
Part of the problem is that our electoral boundaries are completely gerrymandered towards rural ridings that makes urban dwellers outside of Regina-Wascana irrelevant, but I know this is not the entire story.
Factor in guys like Jim Pankiw and Larry Spencer, Saskatchewan supplies some terrible MP's to Ottawa. I have a feeling that Dave Batters will be supplying some strange drama in short order too...
Given that Brad Wall sold out Saskatchewan on equalization, Saskatchewan probably has less national importance than we have at anytime since we became a province which is strange considering we have some economic clout now.
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