As The Tent Collapses: Another Pole Falls, Sask Party Hits Freefall

What began as a skirmish is fast becoming a war.

If you thought the ground had stopped shaking beneath the Saskatchewan Party…lol, no you didn't.

This was always going to happen this way.

In recent weeks, Patrick Bundrock, the behind-the-scenes boss and institutional memory of the Sask Party, jumped off the Titanic. Now we’ve learned Angela Currie, Bundrock’s counterpart in the Legislature (and life) has also exited the building.

You may remember Currie from her starring role in that time she had to shut the Black lady the hell up who had heard the whitest man in the world, David Buckingham, tossing out the N-word in the Legislature.

With Currie’s departure, another of the last living pillars holding up Brad Wall’s old, rundown circus tent is gone.

The collapse of the Sask Party’s status quo isn’t coming, it’s here.

Currie wasn’t just arm candy to power, or someone you could write off as a junior comms twentysomething. She’s a lifelong Sask Party operator, the sort who kept files and people in line (again, see the N-word), behind all the doors that matter.

With Currie out, the party loses not just history and competence, but the muscle memory holding together the frat house shitshow the Sask Party government has become under Scott Moe.

Basically you’re watching the Sask Party’s firefighters throw up their hands and leave the building mid-blaze. Godspeed, suckers.

Speaking of fires.

Just this past week, in the shadow of raging, uncontrolled wildfires across the province, the Sask Party staged a members-only soirée in Regina about…wildfires.

Members.

Only.

That’s right.

Are you a Saskatchewan resident wanting to hear direct from the publicly-remunerated Minister of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety about those infernos threatening your communities?

Gotta pay for a Sask Party membership first, duh.

If you’re just a boring Saskatchewan citizen choking on smoke or the remains of your burned down home, too bad. No frontline insights for you.

But that Sask Party meeting in Regina last week was chef’s kiss levels of awkward.

Minister Tim McLeod, noticeably wilting at the podium in front of a mostly empty room (because there aren’t any Regina Sask Party members, never mind the incompetence of talking northern wildfires in southern Regina), opened by introducing a handful of party reps in the room.

Including former executive director Patrick Bundrock, who’d walked in and sat down by himself, glowering.