Premier of Saskatchewan Scott Moe apologized Thursday for comments made last month that vaccine requirements “effectively produced two classes of citizens” in the state.
“”[It’s] I sincerely hope that the comment wouldn’t offend anyone. ”
“The comments were specifically directed to the health policy we implemented as a government.
“If people are definitely offended, listen, I’m sorry.”
February 8th, Saskatchewan. Prime Minister Scott Moe said vaccination requirements created two classes of citizens in the state. 0:40
Moe was asked to apologize for his comments twice this week in Congress. Once from NDPMLA Betty Nippi-Albright on Tuesday and from opposition leader Ryan Meili on Wednesday.
During the question period on Tuesday, when housing school survivor Albright first asked for an apology, Prime Minister Moe did not answer the question, and Health Minister Paul Merriman stood in his place.
“The problem was for the Prime Minister, not for the Minister of Health,” Albright said during the question.
“For many indigenous peoples in Saskatchewan, the trauma of housing schools and colonization is still going on. It was wrong for the Prime Minister to evoke words to justify his political choices. Do you apologize for the comments you made earlier? “
“There is a division in our state, and this government acknowledges it,” said Merriman, “Mr. Speaker, what we are doing is to allow us to reconcile with all indigenous partners. It ’s still working. That. ”
On Wednesday, Meili said Moh’s comments were inaccurate and insulted indigenous peoples and women who had been denied voting rights for years.
“In addition to being an inflammatory account of wise public health measures, the public health measures he introduced were clearly far behind what he should have, but this comment is deeply ignorant of history. Ignored past examples of actual discrimination, such as the right to long delays, for women and indigenous peoples to vote. “
Moe did not apologize during Wednesday’s session, but made her statement clear.
“The comments I made were very relevant to the health policies we have in this state and those in other states across the country,” he said in the legislature. rice field.
“Health care policies implemented through the Delta Wave to make every effort to make our communities and families safer.”
11:28Prime Minister Scott Moe talks about the decision behind ending COVID-19’s obligations
Vaccine passports are a thing of the past in the state and will soon be masked. Guest host Heather Morrison talks with Saskatchewan Prime Minister Scott Moe about the state’s situation as it enters the next phase of the pandemic. 11:28
