Sask. Party pushes for 5-peat as NDP looks for breakthrough

The Saskatchewan Party has been a juggernaut for more than a decade, winning the past four elections and getting more than 60 per cent of the vote in the last three.

Now Scott Moe is looking to lead his party to a rare fifth straight election victory on Oct. 28.

The story heading into the 2024 provincial election is murkier than in recent campaigns.

Moe faces a new challenge from the NDP under Leader Carla Beck and an unknown threat from parties on its right, namely the Saskatchewan United Party.

Affordability and taxes

The consumer carbon tax has been a central point in Moe's critiques of the NDP, but Beck has said she and her party do not support it, despite Moe's persistence.

Moe has also tried to associate Beck and the provincial wing of the NDP with Jagmeet Singh, and the now-defunct supply and confidence agreement between the federal NDP and federal Liberals.

During the last legislative sitting, Beck criticized Moe almost every day about affordability, and the Saskatchewan Party government's increase and expansion of the PST.

Moe has countered by pointing to Saskatchewan's affordability relative to other provinces, its GDP per capita, and plans to grow the province's resource industry and by extension the economy.

The Saskatchewan Party leader has painted a picture of a steady future of growth under his party, and pushed back against promises of tax cuts from the NDP, Sask. United and others.

Beck promised to suspend the provincial gas tax and remove the PST on children's clothes and some grocery items.

Moe has yet to announce any tax cuts and has questioned how the NDP will pay for its promises. Beck has said a fully-costed platform will be released early in the campaign.

The Saskatchewan United party has pledged to cut the PST to three per cent from six per cent and eliminate the gas tax.

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