It amazes me that so many posters on the left cite the 68 former Saskatchewan NDP MPs and MLAs support of Weir while criticizing Singh for not being left-wing enough when the Saskatchewan NDP was largely neoliberal in the Romanow and Calvert governments from the 1990s onwards, as the following article written in 2012 demonstrates.
Not everything is about ideology. It is basic group leadership and how people treat one another. I'll also note that these Saskatchewan politicians are also coming to a defense of an MP who was on the left flank of the party.
I suspect the former NDP Saskatchewan legislators oppose Singh on much more than the Weir issue and are particularly opposed to his opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline, just as they have opposed meaningful reductions in greenhouse gases in a province with the second largest fossil fuel industry and are using Weir to push back on Singh on his Trans Mountain pipeline decision. Meanwhile, the 2014 global average temperature broke the all-time historical record, which in turn was broken by the 2015 global average record, which in turn was broken by the 2016 global average temperature record.However, I guess we can all relax because 2017 was only the second worst global average temperature record and only seventeen of the top warmest eighteen years have occurred since 2000. No need to be concerned about 88,000 people had to flee Fort MacMurrray in 2016 because of wildfires even though environmental scientists and computer generated models predicted these kind of outcomes of continuing use of fossil fuels; no need for concern for about the thousands who had to leave their homes due to wildfires in Saskatchewan in 2018; no need for concern for the 65,000 who had to flee their homes in BC in 2017 record setting wildfires that burned an area more than twice the size of Prince Edward Island; and no need to be concerned about the 12,984 square kilometres and still growing in size, an area 2.3 times the size of Prince Edward Island, burnt by 2018 BC wildfires that broke the 2017 record.
I've read some of Erin Weir's work, and he seems like a smart person. If only he could be elected as an NDP MP, he could help shape public policy to reduce GHG emissions while providing vialbe economic alternatives for provinces like Saskatchewan and Alberta.