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Saskatchewan’s NDP Opposition has firmly rejected Premier Scott Moe’s claim that the party used artificial intelligence to draft its newly released health-care plan. NDP leader Carla Beck called the accusation “obviously false” and defended the document as the product of genuine research and expert consultation.
Moe’s Social Media Accusation
The dispute began Wednesday when Moe shared a post on X, formerly Twitter. He claimed the NDP had forgotten to remove AI prompts from its 32-page health-care policy before publishing it online. “It’s no wonder no one takes the NDP seriously,” Moe wrote in the post.
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The premier pointed to two specific excerpts in the document’s key recommendations section. One passage read: “Cost every health platform commitment against this return-on-investment logic. So, the platform’s affordability story survives scrutiny from the press and the opposition alike.” Another excerpt stated: “Publish a plain-language explainer of this note’s numbers alongside the platform costing. The thirteen-to-one figure belongs in a stump speech.”
Moe argued that the language in those passages looked like instructions fed into an AI tool rather than finished policy writing. Shortly after his post circulated, the NDP removed the original 32-page document from public access.
NDP Responds and Replaces the Document
The party replaced the original file with a revised 28-page version. The new document no longer contained the two excerpts Moe had highlighted. However, NDP officials were quick to explain the change.
Meara Conway, the NDP’s shadow health minister, said she wrote the plan together with paid researchers and policy experts. She told reporters Thursday that the flagged text was an internal recommendation note, not an AI-generated prompt. “What you saw there was a recommendation from our researcher and myself to the team. That was not an AI prompt,” Conway said.
She added that an earlier version of the file had been uploaded by mistake, which caused the confusion. “You can kind of tell by how it was written this was not AI,” she said. “It’s wild to me to see that that was the premier’s response to this incredibly detailed and bold proposal for fixing health care.”
Beck Defends the Health-Care Plan
NDP leader Carla Beck stood alongside Conway during the Thursday media appearance. Beck emphasized that the health-care plan grew out of consultations with health-care workers and professional researchers, not AI tools.
She criticized Moe for focusing on what she called a distraction. “He’s going to focus on something that’s obviously false but also so completely misses the point,” Beck said. “I guess it isn’t any wonder how we ended up where we’ve ended up in health care in this province.”
Beck also challenged the premier to shift his attention to substantive policy issues. “Keep picking stupid battles, the premier can continue to do that if he likes. We’re going to continue to focus on the people of this province,” she said.
What the Health-Care Plan Proposes
The NDP’s health-care document outlines how a provincial NDP government would work to strengthen primary care across Saskatchewan. A central goal is helping residents connect with doctors or nurse practitioners in their own communities. Currently, many patients travel to major urban centres for treatment they cannot access locally.
Thomas Ockley, the Opposition caucus director of research and policy, provided additional context in a written statement to Global News on Wednesday. He said the NDP had consulted more than 1,000 Saskatchewan residents so far during the development of the plan. The party says that broad consultation process shaped the policy proposals in the document.
Meanwhile, the debate over the document’s origins has drawn attention away from the plan’s substance. Both sides appear set to continue trading criticism as the province’s next election approaches.
