The Seismic Shift from Left to Right in Saskatchewan Politics

Witness to Yesterday (The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History)

In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Dale Eisler, the author of From Left to Right: Saskatchewan’s Political and Economic Transition. Published by the University of Regina Press in 2022, Eisler’s book explores the reasons why Saskatchewan evolved from being the cradle of social democracy to one of the country’s most conservative political cultures in the past half century. He traces the history of the left-oriented CCF-NDP as the long-time governing party of Saskatchewan to the dominance of the right-wing Saskatchewan Party since 2007. Dale Eisler is a former journalist, federal public servant (including time as an Assistant Deputy Minister in the Department of Finance), and Canada’s Consul General in Denver. Currently, he is Senior Policy Fellow at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina. He is also an author of four books, including two previous books focused on Saskatchewan history.

This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt.

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