Nadine Wilson, MLA for Sask. Rivers. (screen shot/Sask. Leg. Assembly)

By Susan McNeil

Provincial Politics

Sask Rivers MLA removed from Leg. for unparliamentary language

Mar 7, 2024 | 2:29 PM

Sask. Rivers MLA Nadine Wilson was removed from today’s Question Period in the legislature after asking if the government is “just plain ignorant or are they straight up gas lighting and lying to the public about their agenda?”

Wilson was asked to apologize for the language choice and refused and then left.

She had first asked about the current government’s plan for oil and gas and accused them of wanting to shut down coal as well as part of the plan to reach a net of zero green-house gas emissions by 2050.

As Minister of Crown Investments, Dustin Duncan said that the province needs to use different sources of energy ranging from fossil fuels to nuclear energy.

He pointed to the fact that Saskatchewan helped Alberta with 153 megawatts of power in January after their electrical grid failed to be able to accommodate the load during an extreme cold snap.

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“Mr. Speaker, we sit on the second largest reserve of uranium in the world. That’s why when we go to conferences like COP and we go to conferences like the Global Nuclear Expo…the eyes of the world are on Saskatchewan,” Duncan said.

Wilson responded by saying the government is engaging in misdirection and double speak before adding that the government is planning to kill coal and oil and gas and lying to the public about their plan.

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