Maintaining a strong, united opposition is essential to holding the provincial government accountable and offering a progressive alternative to the people of Saskatchewan.

Saskatchewan’s New Democrats are a movement built by and for working people, marginalized communities, and all those who believe that equity, compassion, and solidarity must be the foundation of our society. Our party’s legacy is rooted in fighting for human rights, uplifting Indigenous voices, championing global justice, and protecting the most vulnerable among us. Saskatchewan people support the NDP because they trust us to stand by these values. When our leadership strays from these core values, it is the democratic duty of the membership to speak out and reclaim the direction of our party.

Despite facing an increasingly unpopular government, the NDP’s electoral strategy under Carla Beck’s leadership has failed to effectively break the Sask. Party’s hold on power - nor has it allowed the NDP to reclaim its historic agrarian roots.

• Rather than offering a cooperative economic vision that speaks to the struggles of rural and working-class families, Beck’s leadership has resulted in a cautious, incrementalist platform that fails to meet the urgency of the housing, health care, and cost-of-living crises. This failure to meet our moment and inspire voters demonstrates that a strategy of playing it safe and mirroring conservative talking points is not a path to winning government, but only takes progressive voters for granted.

• Beck has allowed the party's messaging to deteriorate into unprofessional and divisive rhetoric, as evidenced by the recent fundraising email from Campaign Director Jeremy Nolais encouraging members to "hate" political opponents. This is a thoughtless tactic, one which undermines our moral ground, alienates voters, and distracts from the work needed to actually defeat the Sask. Party.

Much of the NDP’s strength lies in the voices of its elected representatives, yet Carla Beck has shown a profound failure to support her own caucus members when they take principled stands.

• Beck failed to defend MLA Jennifer Bowes against targeted backlash regarding her support for Palestinian human rights, undermining the NDP's historic commitment to international solidarity and justice.

• Beck has engaged in ill-advised and divisive attacks on progressive leaders within our broader movement, including federal NDP leader Avi Lewis, which serves only to fracture our coalition, rather than build the unity required to govern.

• Beck further failed to adequately support First Nations MLA Betty Nippi-Albright, her work, and her constituents, demonstrating a troubling lack of commitment to meaningful reconciliation by failing to protect and elevate Indigenous voices within the legislature.

The current leadership under Carla Beck has consistently demonstrated an inability to articulate a clear policy vision for the province, leaving voters without a forward-looking alternative.

• Beck has abandoned support for evidence-based, compassionate harm reduction services in our communities, choosing instead to pander to reactionary politics by expressing support for the cruel practice of forced treatment against the advice of her caucus colleagues and non-partisan researchers, and adopting a criminal enforcement approach that contradicts the health and social policies of the NDP.

• Beck has hesitated to champion necessary climate action, too often prioritizing the status quo by echoing talking points of the fossil fuel industry, (most recently demonstrated by Beck's public dismissal of a federally-supported clean energy strategy as "ideological,") rather than articulating a genuine industrial strategy that protects both our environment and energy workers.

• Beck has failed to meaningfully oppose the construction of the massive 300-megawatt Bell AI data centre in the RM of Sherwood, choosing to acquiesce to corporate tech interests rather than standing up for our environmental commitments, our public energy grid, and sustainable development.

We are living in a critical moment of intersecting crises: health care professionals stressed to their limits by staffing issues and overdose epidemics; climate-fueled wildfires threatening our communities; endless wars demanding our commitment to human rights; crushing grocery prices and fuel price shocks punishing working families.

This reality demands a leader who will offer popular, progressive solutions rather than cautious, status-quo politics.

We, members and supporters of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party, formally declare our loss of confidence in the leadership of Carla Beck and the direction it has taken our party.

We call upon Carla Beck to immediately resign from her position as Leader of the Saskatchewan NDP, and to allow the party to elect new leadership capable of articulating a clear vision, unifying the progressive movement, and treating all Saskatchewan people, NDP members, and elected officials with the dignity, solidarity, and fairness they deserve.