“I can say Saskatchewan without starting to stutter,” The Proclaimers sing in “Cap in Hand,” their lament for Britain’s ongoing rule over Scotland. But then along came Premier Scott Moe, laying out the case for his province to be a nation within Canada — just like Quebec. “I think that really sums up about how 90 per cent of the province of Saskatchewan feels here today,” he said. The Saskatchewan “nation” has also turned abroad for help amid the latest COVID-19 surge in that province. Roy Romanow, first as justice minister and then premier of Saskatchewan, was a major player in the constitutional sagas of the 1980s and 1990s.

Source: thestar November 14, 2021 10:02 UTC