Mandryk: Post-debate drama may be more impactful than debate itself

What has followed is already more intriguing than the leaders' debate ... or at least it's already more dramatic and nasty.

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It’s a fool’s errand to assess the Saskatchewan provincial leaders’ debate from the best-worst seat in the House.

For example, live and in-person on Wednesday night, NDP Leader Carla Beck seemed rather tense and uncomfortable, in stark contrast to the more relaxed Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe. Perhaps it looked different through the TV lens of a provincewide broadcast. Perhaps it wasn’t even a bad look.

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Beck did land at least one zinger when she responded to Moe’s tough-on-crime comment by suggesting maybe he should have started with former Sask. Party caucus members Ryan Domotor and Greg Lawrence, who were respectively charged with sex solicitation and assault.

Alas, one good line does not a great debate make. And the less experienced and more ponderous NDP leader could surely have landed more decisive blows, given all of Speaker Randy Weekes’s allegations of Sask.........

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