Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

This originally appeared on SaskVotes.com

CalvertCares.com is a Sask Party attack ad that features some interesting facts about the province Lorne Calvert has run for 6 years.

From SaskVotes.com:

According to the NDP, a new Sask Party website is based on misinformation.

Frank Quennell [is] responding for the NDP. [...]

When asked what exactly is wrong, Quennell points to the Sask Party’s claim that the NDP have the worst job record in Canada. He says month after month, for the last two years, they’ve had more people working in the province, who were not working before.

…That’s a fancy little bit of misdirection by Quennell. He isn’t exactly lying, but he creates enough doubt about the Sask Party provided statistic, that some people might get confused about who is right. He’s spinning back some of the Sask Party’s evaluation of the facts.

Let me clear it up for those who think Quennell has controverted the Sask Party’s point :
The Sask Party provides documentation that the job creation record is the worst in the country since 2001. It’s indisputable. What Quennell is suggesting though is that the Sask Party is wrong (when they aren’t). The Minister is pointing to only the last two years, and not even in the same sense, because he’s not comparing the growth to that of other provinces. So the Minister’s spin fails on two points!

“Quennell also laughs at the notion they have lost 35 thousand people to out - migration. He says it seems everyone but Mr Wall seems to know our population is growing, with many people coming from Alberta.”

I’m not laughing. Our Justice Minister doesn’t know the difference between population growth rate, and net growth. The Sask Party is measuring the net loss, and Quennell is looking at growth intensity. It’s the same misdirection/half-truth that oil companies like Suncor are using when they suggest that they are reducing their pollution levels, because the rate at which they are polluting has decreased or reversed.

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It’s interesting to me that the site’s name was registered back in August by the Sask Party, well before the election call. Were they tipped off to the NDP’s campaign slogan, or was it widely known?