Racism and Lies in the Saskatchewan Legislature

From Hilbert's Hateful Slurs to Beaudry's Broncos Fabrication, the Sask Party and NDP Expose Their Moral Bankruptcy

I’m still unfocused, kind of unmotivated, so just have bite-sized columnettes for you today.

Dollarama-Donna Harpauer

Didn’t think I’d be longing for the good old days of Donna Harpauer and $8000 flights to North Battleford, but here we are.

I mean seriously, is there something in the water in Humboldt?

A few months ago I introduced you to the new Sask Party MLA for Humboldt, Racquel Hilbert, who lied, on the record, about her so-called background in oil drilling.

This morning I unlocked it so it’s free for all readers:

While Hilbert insists she founded a oil company, all evidence points to the fact she did not. You can read those details at the link above.

To the surprise of no one paying attention, Hilbert’s first major speech of 2025 was as much of a train wreck as she is. She has demonstrated unequivocally already that her judgment is irredeemable and in tandem with the total lack of leadership in the Sask Party caucus she will implode fully.

Just a matter of time.

In the meantime, on March 25, 2025, in a speech she was giving from the floor of the Saskatchewan Legislature, Hilbert broadsided federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh with the smear of “terrorist”.

The style guru flanking Hilbert on the right is Prince Albert Carlton MLA Kevin Kosun.

At first, he’s not sure what he heard:

Within seconds, catching the eye of one of his Sask Party colleagues, Kozun confirms he’s just witnessed an epic slur in real life bro and responds exactly how you knew he would, the second you saw his face.

“Racism is hilarious!” - the Sask Party.

Yes, Kev is a backbench nobody, but these clowns are still supposed to be the province’s leaders. Instead they find hilarity in a vile act of bigotry that should’ve prompted outrage and immediate rebuke.

These glimpses into this behaviour provides a damning indictment of these government MLAs lack of intellect, character and are a slap in the face to every Saskatchewan resident who deserves better from those handed the privilege of wielding power.

However, the Sask Party is not my concern on this one.

This bullshit went down in the Legislature on Tuesday March 25th, but we didn’t know about it for another fifteen days, when it appeared in a Leader Post story written by reporter Alec Soullom.

The video of the Saskatchewan Legislative session is streamed live and the archive is posted the same day. The verbatim written record is typically posted the next day.

So why did this story, which would have taken a half day (if that) for any junior journalist to put together, not come out for two weeks?

In my mind, it’s one of two reasons:

1. No Sask journalist has done it before, but someone sat down and read Hansard, or that verbatim record, and found it.

2. An outside source gave the reporter a tip about what happened.

There’s no disclosure in the story as to where it came from (normally Saskatchewan journalists will boast in the story if they received a juicy tip), mmy oney is on the latter. That’s a problem on a few fronts.

Yes, journalists would have long departed the Legislature by the time Racquel spewed her nonsense.

There were, however, at least a dozen other elected officials - including at least four NDP Opposition MLAs - in the room with Hilbert. She had been teeing up her simpering smear of the federal NDP for a good minute or more before she uttered “terrorist”.

I took this screenshot from the Leg archive of the stream, which switches between two or three cameras. This wide shot occurred about thirty seconds before the word was dropped.

So five Sask Party Cabinet Ministers heard the racist slur and either didn’t notice or didn’t give a single fuck. That is not new, that’s a day ending in Y in Sask Party offices.

That Cockrill, Reiter, Harrison et al were there when it happened and did nothing justs highlights the moral rot at the heart of their government under Scott Moe.

Mediocre Saskatchewan Men™ too weak to stand up for anything and too soft to care about the harm inflicted when they don’t.

But I’m supposed to believe NDP MLA Erika Ritchie missed that her political opponent publicly -labelled a turban-wearing Canadian federal leader a “terrorist”?

Nevermind the federal leader of her party?

I’m supposed to believe Bhahan Brar wasn’t upset by it at the time?

Sorry, no.

There is no chance the Saskatchewan NDP didn’t witness this live as it happened in the Saskatchewan Legislature.

Instead of publicly confronting this horrific act when it happened, they too ignored it and the question is why?

Did Carla Beck and party executive director Tim Williams, both wallowing in chronic terror themselves of being connected to Jagmeet Singh and the federal NDP, squash it?

The Saskatchewan NDP does not have the courage to address the ideological discrepancies between itself and its federal parent, so they pretend it doesn’t exist. Beck, Wotherspoon, Williams et al would rather gauge their eyeballs out with spoons than be connected to the disastrous state of today’s national NDP party or its unpopular leader.

Thus, rather than confront an egregious offense, one with implications impacting the entire province, they’d rather bury it, unless and until they’re forced to confront it.

Carla was all over it on April 9th, after the story came out.

If they knew but chose not to bring it forward themselves, the Saskatchewan NDP’s decision to distance themselves from federal leader Jagmeet Singh rather than confront festering racism within the Legislature is one of the most cowardly, spineless displays of political opportunism and hypocrisy I’ve ever seen.

They’d sooner throw their own under the bus than muster the guts to call out the bigotry staining their provincial house?

This is precisely the reason Sask Party MLAs have long dodged accountability for their crude behaviour in the Legislature and everywhere else, or for their constant discriminatory dog-whistles.

The Saskatchewan NDP are proving they’re more interested in perpetual Opposition and your low expectations, than standing up for the marginalized communities they claim to champion.

It’s a shameful prioritization of electoral optics over integrity.

If me pointing this out makes you uncomfortable or resent me, consider whether you’re part of the problem.

Because let me tell you something: racism in Saskatchewan is not going anywhere but up if it’s willfully tolerated and validated like this, right in our own freaking House.

Want more cringe?

Course you do.

Like I said, this woman’s going to be the gift that keeps on giving.

As vile and ignorant as Hilbert’s words were regarding Jagmeet Singh, they weren’t even close to the dumbest she came out with that day.

You can read the full transcript of an unthinkable seven minutes here, if you like pain.

Or, since I’m never going to get that time back anyway, you could save your own and watch this summation I made of what she said next, which is jaw-dropping: