Who Owns Saskatchewan Now?
I don't know and neither does anyone else, because one signature at a time, the Sask Party has dismantled a century of farm ownership.
If there’s one lesson buried somewhere in this saga, it’s that corruption in Saskatchewan doesn’t always wear a suit or exchange brown envelopes.
Sometimes it’s hidden in plain sight; in government regulations, or quietly stamped by an Order in Council. Proof of a government so entangled in its web of donors it no longer distinguishes public service from private gain.
The Sask Party has presided over the largest transfer of provincial wealth and ownership in modern history. There was no revolution, or innovation, just shuffling paper.
Farm land.
Our provincial government congratulates itself for “supporting farmers” while overseeing the quiet dispossession of rural communities and the rupture of Saskatchewan’s agricultural lineage.
Saskatchewan’s soul has been sold off, one signature at a time.
Young farm families aren’t competing with neighbours anymore; they’re up against numbered companies funded by billionaires from the Middle East.
The Sask Party government has engineered much of the foreign sell-off of Saskatchewan and willfully ignored the rest.
The Farm Land Security Board (FLSB) is a group of residents, hand-selected by Sask Party politicians, if not Scott Moe himself, who are bestowed with the privilege of protecting Saskatchewan soil.
It’s their job to enforce The Saskatchewan Farm Security Act.
In reality, Saskatchewan’s FLSB has acted as a clearing house for deregulation.
In late 2024 the Saskatchewan auditor released a devastating report that showed the Farm Land Security Board doesn’t even know who owns Saskatchewan farm land.
“No one in Saskatchewan, including the legally bound regulator, knows what percentage of farmland is owned or leased by foreign entities.” - Sask Auditor’s report 2024, Vol 2.
The auditor found the FLSB had skipped proper checks on half of the high-risk purchases it reviewed. Even better, the FLSP was not reviewing those purchases until up to five months after the deal closed.
If it did find issues, it did nothing.
Unfathomable.
Imagine being tasked with such an important role: preserving the land that good Saskatchewan people fought to live on after cultivating it by hand.
And doing nothing.
(At this juncture I had originally listed all the names of the dozen or so unelected residents who have sat on the FLSB and played an huge role in selling out Saskatchewan. You’d know plenty of them and yes, they are exactly who you think. Fools, every one.
I deleted that whole section, because they’re not the real problem: Scott Moe and the bag of dicks that is his caucus. That said, if you were on the FLSB between 2008 and 2025 - if you agreed to be a part of, if not perpetuate this scam - your name will go down in the history books as one of the worst things to ever happen to this province, period.
Congratulations! Watch for your certificate in the mail.)
Earlier this month the Government of Saskatchewan (GOS) breathlessly announced a FLSB “Advisory Committee”; because obviously the solution here is more “feedback” from more unelected individuals hand-selected by Scott Moe’s administration.
Last week, in a second GOS news release, Minister of Agriculture Darryl Harrison announced the “passing” of amendments to the Saskatchewan Farm Security Regulations. That language is misleading, implying some kind of Legislative scrutiny or cooperation with the NDP Opposition.
He’s really just referring to Scott Moe and his clown Cabinet doing more paperwork.
In this case, signing Order in Council 434/2025.
(This is a whole other Substack, but since 2020 the Sask Party has largely governed through regulations, which is problematic. Unlike creating or changing laws, which requires an orderly public process through the Legislature, a regulation can be created and amended by Scott Moe et al with just their own signatures; no consultation or oversight.)
Harrison’s spin, and that of Saskatchewan’s ever-compliant news outlets, is these changes represent some kind of crackdown on foreign land ownership.
In reality, it’s just Scott Moe scrambling to mask yet another steaming pile of the consequences of his own actions.
Farmland is not a commodity to be traded like real estate. It’s a specialized asset class that requires residents, producers, and multi-generational stewardship. In theory, that’s exactly who our laws are supposed to restrict ownership to: Canadians, permanent residents, and locally controlled corporations.
The Sask Party set the rules aside.
Saskatchewan once produced farmers; today, it breeds absentee landlords.
