Families watch as suicide prevention committee voted down
Jude Ratt was disappointed and angry after watching the Saskatchewan government decline to strike a bipartisan special committee of the Legislature with the NDP on the mental health crisis and addictions crisis.
On Tuesday, NDP MLA Doyle Vermette tried to introduce a motion to create the committee but the Saskatchewan Party didn’t give him leave.
Ratt and his wife were watching from the gallery and afterward, he said his wife was so hurt and broken over it that she didn’t want to come out and speak to media about it.
Ratt said he was lost for words on how he felt about it. He said the government obviously didn’t understand anything his family is going through.