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Originally Posted by zuluking
Ya, and I get that. I would say meddling in the business affairs of one of (if not the) largest corporation in the province is a fairly significant point though? I wouldn't consider that to be cherry picking at all. You are either for government involvement in business (Saskatchewan Party and NDP position) or you're against it (no party in Saskatchewan).
You might like to try to downplay this as "one issue" and thats fine, but its a huge issue. Its one of the defining characteristics of an ideology in fact.
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...sorry, that's your opinion, not fact. It's not downplaying as "one issue"; it is one issue, in fact. The stark differences in ideology between Sask party and NDP outweigh the similarities by a large margin, meaning there is a large gap between the SP and NDP - not small.
And, as you've stated, the largest corp in the province was about to be taken over by a foreign company. Ideologically, you may not want to meddle in business affairs, but ideology has to be weighed against the risk / harm to your constituents. In this case, the determined risk outweighed pure ideology and decisions were made to intervene. Does this mean that the Sask Party is now on the same end of the political spectrum as the NDP? Not even close. If this was a small drilling company in the SE corner of the province, would they make the same decision? Not a chance. Situational, not ideological.