NDP candidate Harmonie King was born and raised in Meadow Lake. (submitted photo/Harmonie King)

By Teena Monteleone

Meadow Lake NDP candidate promises a vision to ‘put people first’

Oct 7, 2020 | 2:00 PM

Unlike her incumbent competitor, provincial election candidate Harmonie King doesn’t have much in the way of political experience – but that fresh, new perspective is something she thinks will entice voters to make the switch in the Meadow Lake constituency from the Saskatchewan Party to the NDP.

“When people get comfortable in positions, they start to let things slide,” King told meadowlakeNOW. “So, if you’re stretching yourself between two different minister portfolios while supporting a constituency, that leaves a lot of areas that can be neglected, and we’ve seen that in this constituency. The NDP has a vision to start putting people first.”

Born and raised in Meadow Lake “just down Bear Creek Road,” King, who is a registered social worker, does a lot with children and youth. She is a mental health advocate and is trained in crisis response and suicide prevention strategy. She has a youth care worker diploma and a bachelor’s degree in social work.

“I’ve seen people in this constituency being let down by the current government and I decided to run because these people aren’t being heard. I’m running so that they have a voice too,” King said.

Among the list of issues she is hearing from constituents, King said she’d work to address a two-year waitlist for child psychiatry, an increase in crime in relation to drug and gangs in the constituency, long wait times to receive health services and a revolving door of physicians that come into the community and leave.

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“And there is also the Sask Party’s response of reopening of schools and therefore, lack of response. Teachers are carrying huge workloads and that’s going to impact how our children learn.”

Saskatchewan NDP leader Ryan Meili is promising huge spending and going heavily on the attack of Scott Moe and the Sask. Party’s fiscal management and what he claims is a lack of investment in recent years. When asked how the party would pay for the NDP’s promised mega spending, King pointed to the party’s recently announced plan to tax the rich in Saskatchewan.

“So with tax fairness and the wealth tax that they just put forward – taxing one per cent on those with a net worth of over $15 million will bring $120 million annually in general revenue fund to help pay for things like health care, safer schools and to fix the long term care and expanding on home care for seniors,” King said.

She added the NDP wouldn’t waste money on things like the GTH and will continue making sure Saskatchewan jobs stay in Saskatchewan and they aren’t outsourced ‘like the Sask. Party has been doing.’

King has spent the last few days canvassing at Witchekan Lake First Nation and Pelican Lake. There are plans for a ‘meet and greet’ in Meadow Lake this Friday. Details are yet to be determined.

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Teena.monteleone@jpbg.ca

On Twitter: @ meadowlakeNOW