The Saskatchewan Government Is Removing Canadian Flags From Public Buildings

It doesn't matter who you believe should be Prime Minister - Canadians can all agree this isn't right. Right?

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It was the first thing I noticed about the video of Saskatchewan’s Minister of Education, Jeremiah Cockrill, when it was released by the Sask Party government last week.

No, it wasn’t the smarm that oozed from the ill-advised, highly-political and bad faith idea, released with the sole purpose of further undermining Saskatchewan teachers. Clearly it’s a war tactic, given teachers are now the only frontline soldiers standing between children and a government that has demonstrated it is willing to use them as pawns in its quest to control our province and the people in it with dangerous, divisive ideology.

(Oh and they’re in the middle of an escalating contract dispute with teachers, but trust me when I say that the Sask Party is not losing sleep over that pesky little problem. At best, they’re just leveraging it to pump out stone cold political, patronizing nonsense like Cockrill’s.)

It wasn’t the fact that until recently, Jeremiah Cockrill’s one claim to fame was selling window treatments to the government’s housing authority, in his own riding.

Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill's Business Dealings Since Being Elected...

Now we’re supposed to believe he’s so very troubled about the future of Saskatchewan kids, which Moe recently placed in Cockrill’s soft, unqualified hands.

What I did notice immediately is that Cockrill had two Saskatchewan flags hanging behind him, but not one Canadian.