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Outstanding job news last month couldn’t be coming at a much better time for Premier Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government.

Well, arguably it would be better for the Sask. Party to see 14,200 more jobs — what we just witnessed in April in Saskatchewan compared with April 2018 — a year from now as it starts to ramp up for an October 2020 provincial election.

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But one guesses that Moe and company will gladly take the good job news now for a couple of reasons:

First, Saskatchewan voters are fully aware of the correlation between job numbers and population. They know if jobs ain’t growin’ we ain’t growin’. Coming after a prolonged blip in the economy including stagnating job growth numbers that ended about a year ago, the nine consecutive months of growth we’ve just witnessed affords voters confidence that the province has weathered the downturn and is back on course.

Second, job success and/or failure is always all about momentum. It takes a considerable amount of time — multiple months — to turn around the economy when it’s headed in one direction or another. Because of this, it’s now most likely we will be seeing the economic ship continue to chug forward through this summer and well beyond.