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What it may say the most about is political desperation.

Trudeau’s last visit to Saskatchewan was to commemorate the third anniversary of the La Loche school shootings by announcing $2.2 million for cultural and language-based programs during the next five years.

It was a non-partisan event attended by politicians of all stripes. But at the risk of seeming a little cynical, it’s hard not to notice that this was happening in Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River, currently held by NDP MP Georgina Jolibois — a riding where Liberals expect to be running Lac La Ronge Band Council Chief Tammy Cook-Searson as one of their star candidates.

With fears of losing seats in Ontario and the Atlantic provinces, the Liberals are likely hoping to wrestle away seats in other places like Saskatchewan. Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River is obviously in play. Maybe the same can be said about New Democrat MP Sheri Benson’s Saskatoon West riding.

And then there is Regina Lewvan, where former city councillor Louis Browne’s 13,143 votes as the Liberal candidate in 2015 were only 3,568 back from second-place Conservative Trent Fraser and 3,700 back from eventual NDP winner Erin Weir.

However, if the Liberals are now scrambling to win Saskatchewan seats, so is the NDP — even seats they won like Regina Lewvan, where internal fighting is now putting at risk the hard-earned Saskatchewan foothold the NDP re-established in 2015.

The latest chapter in the Weir saga came Wednesday night when the NDP Regina Lewvan riding associationvoted in favour of allowing Weir,_now kicked out of the NDP caucus, to seek the party nomination.