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But Meili’s platform is also noteworthy — and praiseworthy — in what it leaves for further review.

For example, both Meili and Trent Wotherspoon highlight the need for a more progressive tax system in their respective platforms. And Wotherspoon’s platform includes a fairly typical combination of narrow but specific proposals (including a new high-end income tax bracket), and promises to undo some of the Saskatchewan Party’s actions in government.

Rather trying to rewrite the intricacies of tax policy from an opposition leadership campaign, Meili sets out the principle that Saskatchewan’s people should receive a fair share of the wealth generated in our province, but leaves the details to an expert review of our resource and tax revenue structure.

That may not offer Meili the benefit of immediate soundbites. But it represents an eminently responsible starting point in a policy area which includes both a wide range of options, and a high risk of unforeseen consequences. And Meili’s well-established bona fides in advocating for a more fair economic system eliminate any danger that a promise of further study could be sloughed off as a delay tactic.

Similarly, while Wotherspoon’s plans around Crown corporations involve restoring past mandates and locking down the structures which currently exist, Meili first calls for a study of the challenges and opportunities in the sector as a whole. And even one of his most appealing suggestions – being the development of a Crown to manufacture prescription drugs – is conditional on that study concluding the idea will work in practice as well as in theory.