Meet Racquel Hilbert, Your Sask Party MLA for Humboldt
Since we're talking liars we touch on a couple other Sask Party MLAs as well, including my new personal favorite, Chris Beaudry.
Trying to finish writing about the Sask Party and India, but this came across my desk this morning and I had to share it with you.
Meet Sask Party MLA for Humboldt, Racquel Hilbert.
Rachel is a big deal. Just ask her.
Here’s her bio on the Sask Party website:
“a founder of Wolverine Drilling”.
Okie doke.
That assertion is repeated in her MLA bio, now on the Saskatchewan Legislature’s website.
Cool cool cool.
As her bio points out, Hilbert completed the “Civil Water Resources Technician Program” at Saskatchewan Polytechnic in 2023.
This after a 20-year career as a special ed teacher and, of course, founding Wolverine Drilling.
Quite the accomplished gal.
Except thing is, while at Sask Polytech, Hilbert gave rather different information on her background, inadvertently revealing two things about herself.
In March 2023, Polytech published an article on its website called Sask Polytech is empowering women to pursue careers in STEM, featuring Ms Hilbert.
“Hilbert has had a side-gig for many years working for Wolverine Drilling, a well drilling contractor in Humboldt. She answered phone calls and replied to emails in the evenings and on the weekends to make some extra money to supplement her teaching salary to support her family of six. Recently she decided to take the plunge and explore a water resources career. She completed her co-operative work terms with Wolverine Drilling and is looking forward to future opportunities with the company.” - Sask Polytech is empowering women to pursue careers in STEM, March 2023
Wait, what?
A “side-gig… working for Wolverine Drilling” is categorically not the same as “a founder of Wolverine Drilling”.
Honourable mention to the fact that after referencing in the Polytech article how she supports “her family of six”, she said,
“It’s been a challenge, but I’m not giving up. My kids see how hard I’m working. They are proud of me and what I’m doing for our family.” - Sask Party MLA Humboldt, Racquel Hilbert, March 2023
I don’t know about you, but to me, between the fact she claimed to be supporting a family of six, referencing her kids etc - it was giving single-mom vibes.
Yet in her bio on the Sask Party and Legislature’s website she references her husband and four kids… but I guess that’s a “family of six”? Pretty sure she was deliberately vague.
Her Wolverine Drilling assertion is not vague.
She’s either lying to voters or she lied to Sask Polytech.
There’s no way to square “side-gig… answered phones and replied to emails” on “evenings and weekends” with ‘founder’.
None.
Wolverine Drilling, which was established on paper (and according to its website) in 2002-03, appears to have lied dormant for fifteen years before ever filing a business return.
I really don’t give a shit what it did or when - Wolverine Drilling is just another podunk small business connected to the Sask Party making money it probably doesn’t deserve. I refuse to look in the public accounts, it’ll just piss me off.
I do, however, give many, many shits about these stone cold loser Sask Party MLAs - pathological liars - not being able to just be real on a single thing, including their own personal histories.
Reminds me of the time Marv Friesen, a blue-collar auto mechanic infamous in Saskatoon’s Alphabettown (and not just for his business prowess) got elected for Sask Riversdale and suddenly became an energy consultant.
I can’t remember where I saw it first, I think he casually dropped that in the Legislature.
Regardless, it’s still on his LinkedIn bio today:
Now go into Friesen’s Saskatchewan Legislature’s disclosure reports and find a single reference to Hudson Energy, or any energy consultancy role.
I’ll wait.
But I’ll be waiting a while, cause there’s not a single fucking reference to anything like that, which I believe might be against the law.
God knows nobody cares.
Then there’s Chris Beaudry.
That motherfucker - now, unimaginably a Sask Party MLA - lying about being the assistant coach of the Humboldt Broncos’ at the time of the April 5, 2018 bus crash is just stunning to me.
You know why Chris Beaudry wasn’t on the bus that day?
Chris Beaudry wasn’t on the Humboldt Broncos bus that day because Chris Beaudry was not a coach of the Humboldt Broncos’.
I mean, has anyone ever asked Beaudry about all his other bus trips with the Humboldt Broncos in 2018?
Oh no wait - there weren’t any - because Chris Beaudry was never a coach of the Humboldt Broncos.
He was a hanger-onner. A pest, according to many, many people who suddenly now seem to be willing to accept his pile of horseshit as gospel.
It’s so goddamn disrespectful to the real, only assistant coach of the Humboldt Broncos in 2018, Mark Cross.
You know how else I know Beaudry wasn’t a coach?
Cause he had a goddamn meltdown when we hired Nathan Oystrick, phoning sports news desks all over Canada and the US claiming he’d been promised the job.
I had to deal with all those desks - TSN, ESPN, NBC, all the Corus networks yada yada. Roger Millions. Spoke about it with Darren Dutchyshen all the time; Dutchy was just too nice to tell him to fuck off.
TSN’s Ryan Rishaug and I had at least a six month running dialogue on it.
Rod Pederson and I spoke extensively about Beaudry’s lies - in fact Rod took to calling me after convos with Beaudry to ensure he understood the truth.
Rod Pedersen knows the assistant coach thing is a categorical lie and continues to promote Beaudry from his own show… as the former assistant coach.
At the time, we all agreed to ignore Beaudry because it was clear he was unwell.
But today? I don’t get it.
Why are all those families - nevermind the club itself - allowing this narrative?
The lengths we - I - went to, in order to protect the legacies and memories of the victims were unbelievable.
You remember all those girlfriends? Do you actually believe there was only girl per victim?
OMG LOL. It’s not funny, but don’t get me started.
Exhausting. The simple reason you don’t know about ugly, nastiness behind the scenes stuff like this is because I kept an impenetrable lid on the whole thing.
But now I don’t have to protect anyone.
So better watch yourself Beaudry, cause on behalf of Mark Cross - nevermind the hell you and your incessant lies put me and many others through - I’ll never stop watching you.
Phew, that got personal real quick.
It’s just all so gross. All of it. I’m so fed up.
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