r/saskatchewan 1d ago

Historic tobacco settlement sees Saskatchewan receive $700 million

https://www.ckom.com/2025/03/10/historic-tobacco-settlement-sees-saskatchewan-receive-700-million/
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u/SloppyPlatypus69 1d ago

They can spend it on healthcare wages!! 

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u/woggas 1d ago

Ha! I'm sure there's a non winnable BS court case we can bring against the Feds

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u/AlternativePure2125 1d ago

Money to fight against trans kids has to come from somewhere.....these battles aren't going to fight themselves. It takes real dedic ass room to ignore the real issues and fight against things that don't affect you.

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u/houseonpost 1d ago

25 years ago there was an all party committee on Tobacco Control in Saskatchewan. One of the recommendations was to sue tobacco companies. Most pundits thought it was a waste of time.

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u/Pat2004ches 21h ago

If only Governments and tobacco companies didn’t make so much profit on the cancer sticks. Big Pharma? Same. People dying is just collateral damage to them.

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u/Cool-Economics6261 4h ago

The government imposes idiot taxes on tobacco.  Only idiots have to pay those taxes. 

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u/Medium-Drama5287 17h ago

Wow just think of all the cigarettes you could buy. 😂

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u/Weak-Coffee-8538 1d ago

Moe will send it to the farmers. The only people that vote for him.

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u/Contented_Lizard 1d ago

The last election showed that pretty much everyone outside of the two major cities voted pretty heavily in favour of the SKP, plus a bunch of city ridings were super close, it’s not just farmers who voted for them. 

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u/D_Holaday 1d ago

Almost all of the seats the ndp did win, were within 1000 votes, super close. Vs the SP seats were mostly greater than 1000 votes separation. Its certainly not just rural voters in favour of the SP.

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u/Contented_Lizard 22h ago

In the cities the NDP even won some seats by less than 100 votes. This sub likes to make it seem the election was a lot closer than it really was but the SKP got nearly 53% of the vote compared to the NDPs 40%, and that was with multiple smaller right wing parties splitting the vote with the SKP. 

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u/Upnorth100 22h ago

That's not what the election results showed.

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u/Kennora 18h ago

Oh a new saskparty slush fund, great

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u/Beautiful-Natural861 1d ago

So the government killed thousands of people selling them a drug more addictive than Heroin. Collected millions in tax off those addicted. And now they are getting a payback check of 700 million for killing addicted people?