Everyone should take a look at today’s tragic report from Saskatchewan’s Children’s Advocate. It highlights 13 tragic cases where children under the age of five have died since 2019, with toxic illegal drugs in their systems.

The CBC coverage of the report is available here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/13-kids-died-toxic-illegal-drugs-since-2019-child-advocate-9.7181401

Here’s a link to Saskatchewan’s Children’s Advocate: https://www.saskadvocate.ca/

And here is the link to the news release from the NDP Caucus on this issue:

https://www.ndpcaucus.sk.ca/thirteen_saskatchewan_children_under_the_age_of_five_lost_their_lives_to_toxic_drugs_over_the_last_eight_years

Add to this today’s development in the Saskatchewan Legislature, regarding a young girl who can’t go to school every day because she has….wait for it: diabetes. It’s 2026. The fact that the Ministry of Education does not have contingencies in place to support in a travesty.

Sadly, this must all be combined with recent news of Saskatchewan’s appallingly high child child poverty rate:

The Premier and his Ministers are fond of saying Saskatchewan provides what the world needs.

Seemingly, we can’t even provide what our own children need.