On Tuesday, the Sask NDP lost one of their MLAs. She’s sitting as an independent MLA, after leader Carla Beck cracked the whip. Jennifer Bowes spoke out on Facebook with a petition to remove Beck.

Eric Bell: “this is the reaction from a small group of people who are upset for reasons which are so completely disconnected from the reality that so many in Saskatchewan are facing today at the hands of a Saskatchewan Party government…”

I’d say about 9 in 10 people are completely disconnected from reality in Saskatchewan. Be it the pandemic, the climate crisis, or the NDP’s remote chances of convincing Sask Party indoctrinated voters to switch to Sask Party-lite, it remains remotely likely that they’ll wake up to reality.

The left-wingers in the world who’ve had success are able to talk about reality, and provide better options for people than Conservative-lite policies. Do people really want more obsolete pipelines for products that are going away by next decade? No. Do they want to wait 10 years for the most expensive electricity? No.

Canadians just voted for a supposed Conservative-lite in Mark Carney, and he’s discarding progressive policies he claimed to care about. People won’t trust Carla and the NDP in the same way. I’ve certainly seen no reason to trust Beck to implement progressive policy if she becomes Premier, because she spends her time trying to convince Sask Party Conservatives that she’s on their side, taking progressive votes for granted.