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We all owe New Democrat Cumberland MLA Doyle Vermette a debt of gratitude for restoring some humanity to the Saskatchewan legislature and the province after a whole lot of humanity on a critical issue was somehow lost.
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That the Saskatchewan Party government would have embarrassed itself by rejecting an identical version of Vermette’s bill last June was — at best — a testimonial of how woefully uninformed our government was on this matter. At worst, it was a testimonial to how politics far too often takes precedence.