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“I think its a positive message which says, look, we’re making important gains and strides in the battle, and he’s very hopeful, I would say, that they’ve turned the corner, and that I sure hope that it’s correct,” said Romanow immediately after watching the broadcast.
“I think from that point of view it was a good address.”
Romanow believed that Moe reflected the right amount of caution given uncertainty around how the course of the virus could change.
“I think that’s a proper message, as opposed to a message of total victory,” he said.
Jim Farney, head of the politics and international studies department at the University of Regina, said Moe channelled the “folksy” style that has worked well for him in the past. He did what he had to do, in Farney’s view.
“I expect a lot of people want to see it move faster, but I think folks need to accept that we’re in for a long, slow grind,” he said.
