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2026-27 Budget Makes Clear the Only Thing Saskatchewan Needs Protecting From Is Scott Moe
March 20, 2026 (Regina, SK) The Saskatchewan United Party (SUP) says the 2026‑27 provincial budget proves Premier Scott Moe is the biggest threat to Saskatchewan’s future prosperity, not some outside force.
“Scott Moe stood up in the legislature and claimed this budget is about ‘protecting Saskatchewan,’” said Dwight Bunyan, SUP President. “What it actually does is protect his government’s addiction to tax, borrow and spend while sending Saskatchewan families the bill in the form of record interest payments, skyrocketing PST revenues and structural deficits as far as the eye can see.”
The 2026-27 budget confirms Saskatchewan people will pay about a billion dollars this year in interest on the provincial debt – the first time in our history that annual interest charges alone have blown past the billion‑dollar mark. Total gross debt is projected to jump to roughly $43.5 billion, up more than $5 billion in just one year, locking taxpayers into higher payments for decades. Debt‑servicing costs are now growing faster than many front‑line programs, consuming about 5.5 per cent of every tax dollar the province spends.
“This is money that can’t hire a nurse, can’t keep a rural ER open, can’t fix a highway and can’t help with power or heating bills,” Bunyan said. “It goes straight to bondholders because Scott Moe has no plan beyond swiping the provincial credit card over and over while hoping global commodity prices bail him out again.”
Independent fiscal observers describe the plan as “taking the longer road to fiscal sustainability,” which is code for pushing the real pain – and higher taxes – onto the next generation. The government’s own news release brands this as the “2026‑27 Provincial Budget: Protecting Saskatchewan,” claiming it protects people through “lower taxes, improved access to health care, safer communities and infrastructure investments.”
In reality:
- There is no broad, permanent tax relief for working families facing rising costs; instead, they are left paying for a growing debt and the interest that comes with it.
- Health, education and community safety systems remain strained, while billions that could support them are siphoned off to service debt.
- There is no plan for another year of wildfires, which are inevitable, yet the Sask Party is “hopeful” they won’t exist – that’s a fairy tale.
- The Sask Party government continues to fund pet projects like expanding the Saskatchewan Marshals Service while insisting there is no room to do better on affordability.
“When a government is spending over a billion dollars a year just to service its debt, it loses the moral authority to claim it is ‘protecting’ anyone,” Bunyan said. “Saskatchewan people need protection from Scott Moe’s financial mismanagement – not another ad campaign telling them everything is fine.”
“Saskatchewan United believes in living within our means, protecting essential services by making government smaller and more efficient, not bigger and dumber, and leaving our kids a province with opportunity – not an interest bill,” Bunyan continued. “Scott Moe had a chance yesterday to change course. Instead, he doubled down on the very same bad choices that put Saskatchewan in this hole.”
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