The fall sitting of the legislature saw the SaskParty and N-D-P go back and forth over the government’s record on health and education.
Opposition M-L-A’s including leader Ryan Meili grilled the government saying Saskatchewan schools are in terrible shape and doctors are severely overworked.
Premier Scott Moe and SaskParty M-L-A’s repeatedly stated there are more new schools, hospital and health care professionals under their administration than when the N-D-P was in power.
University of Saskatchewan Political Scientist Greg Poelzer says the SaskParty has spent more on health and education over the past decade than any other provincial government and that has happened over the past few years with low commodity revenue.
Poelzer says there was a time when the N-D-P governed very conservatively.
Roy Romanow took over as premier in 1991 when Saskatchewan was nearly bankrupt after commodity prices had bottomed out under Conservative Premier Grant Devine.
He says Romanow’s N-D-P government closed or restructured 52 hospitals and cuts were made in education as well to keep the province solvent.