NOTICE: Saskatchewan. United Party must fix FCC error to gain trust

The Saskatchewan United Party and its supporters are currently eating a giant plate of crow because of a false rumor the party spread last week regarding Farm Credit Canada.

“Several high-level sources have told Sask United that Farm Credit Canada is leaving Saskatchewan and relocating its operations to Quebec,” the political party said in a press release sent to the media and taken up in the Legislative Assembly by its leader, founder and only sitting MP. , Nadine Wilson.

It only took a few hours for Farm Credit Canada to issue a direct rebuttal.

“To be absolutely clear, FCC will not be moving its headquarters from Regina,” a spokesperson for the organization told 650 CKOM in an emailed statement.

It is no surprise that the Saskatchewan United Party is peddling false information. If it weren’t for fake news, the party might not exist in the first place.

Wilson, you will recall, sat in the governing Saskatchewan Party, having served as a backbencher since 2007. That changed in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Wilson was expelled from the party for ” having misrepresented his vaccination status.” » His false statement put Premier Scott Moe in a difficult situation after he publicly declared that his entire caucus was vaccinated or was in the process of being vaccinated.

Wilson was therefore removed from the government benches and, after a brief stint as an independent, she formed the Saskatchewan United Party to better represent her values.

One could conclude that a party that only exists because of distorted vaccination status could also distort other important things.

The remaining credibility of Wilson and his party now hangs by a thread.

Fortunately, this situation at the FCC gave Wilson the opportunity to either salvage some credibility or sever that last thread of public trust.

I’ll be watching very closely this week to see if Wilson names the “multiple high-level sources” who are apparently fueling his lies in an effort to embarrass his party.

If she does, we can blame this whole thing on a few bad actors who worked together to make a political party look stupid by peddling lies.

Such a thing could happen, and the party could be forgiven for allowing itself to be caught in the trap.

But if Wilson doesn’t reveal the sources of the misinformation his party was peddling, it could lead people to assume the Saskatchewan United Party made up the whole thing themselves.

Senior sources declined to speculate on the most likely option.