Saskatchewan’s finance minister was ordered to apologize Monday after she sent the Speaker a text accusing him of letting the legislature devolve into an “Opposition puppet show.”
During proceedings, Weekes stood up and said he has received “literally hundreds and hundreds” of texts from government house leader Jeremy Harrison, deputy government house leader Lori Carr and occasionally some from Harpauer.“Randy, if you can blatantly lie, tarnish reputations of elected and unelected individuals with innuendoes, but no proof, we have no avenue to push back. Then, this assembly has become a joke and a stage for an Opposition puppet show. Disappointing.
“They’ll do anything they can to avoid accountability, and it’s a government that’s completely out of touch,” she said. The company, Clearpoint Health Netowrk, donated $14,000 to the Saskatchewan Party since 2016, and a former finance minister lobbied on its behalf.