Moe defends proposal to bar permanent residents from Sask. Party voting memberships

Alexander Quon · CBC News

· Posted: Nov 06, 2025 4:41 PM EST | Last Updated: November 6

Premier Scott Moe is defending a bid of projected amendments to the Saskatchewan Party's constitution that would marque imperishable residents nary longer eligible for a voting rank with the party.

Moe said the changes would bring the enactment successful enactment with Elections Saskatchewan rules connected who tin ballot successful an predetermination successful the province.

"We consciousness it's prudent to reflector the Elections Saskatchewan parameters," Moe told media aft Thursday's question play successful the provincial legislature.

The projected amendments would bash the following:

• Remove imperishable residents from the explanation of those who tin beryllium voting regular members of the party.
• Remove a clause that allowed younker enactment members to vote.
• And necessitate subordinate members — who cannot ballot — to beryllium "ordinarily a nonmigratory of Canada" (permanent residents would inactive beryllium allowed to beryllium subordinate members).

The changes are up for statement astatine the Saskatchewan Party convention, which is scheduled to beryllium held successful Saskatoon connected Friday and Saturday.

A transcript of the Saskatchewan Party's normal booklet provided by the Saskatchewan NDP indicates the changes are being projected by the provincial assembly of the Saskatchewan Party.

Moe said the argumentation has travel from the grassroots of the enactment but said helium had not yet made up his caput connected whether he'd enactment the changes.

NDP telephone projected alteration 'discriminatory'

Brittney Senger, the Saskatchewan NDP professional for ideology and ethics, said the projected changes are "discriminatory."

"It's profoundly troubling. It's disheartening to spot that they're discouraging imperishable residents and young radical from being engaged successful the antiauthoritarian process," Senger said.

"Frankly, my question is to Scott Moe. What is driving this question forward?"

In a statement, the Saskatchewan Party said the intent was to "align the quality for members to ballot wrong the Saskatchewan Party with the quality to ballot successful provincial elections, based connected property and Canadian citizenship."

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Senger's comments were echoed by Noor Burki, the NDP's professional for immigration, who said helium had heard from galore caller Canadians who telephone this state home.

According to the Saskatchewan Party, the benefits of having a rank include:

• Choosing the section Saskatchewan Party candidate.
• Having a dependable astatine the party's yearly meetings and convention.
• Helping to signifier and physique the province.

Moe insisted the argumentation does not restrict anyone's information successful the Saskatchewan Party.

"We privation radical involved. We privation younker involved. We privation radical that person moved here, imperishable residents, progressive successful the Saskatchewan Party," said Moe."

"Determining yet the aboriginal of not lone our party, but our state and our nation."