Carnie's Comments

The headline in the Globe and Mail reads, "Pickup trucks are a plague on Canadian streets". It's an opinion piece that's getting a lot of reads across the country.  In fact, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe shared it on social media yesterday.

The story comes with a photo of three pickup trucks with the caption, "Once the vehicle of the cowboy, the contractor and the good old boy, pickups have become the continent's mainstream ride."

The writer calls pickups "polluting and dangerous" and "a blight on the roadscape and a finger in the eye of other drivers - a way of saying to everyone else:  I am bigger, badder and richer than you.  A vehicle that started as a practical tool for hard-working people has become, for many, an obnoxious assertion of dominance and division."

To which, Premier Moe replies, "Come to Saskatchewan where we use our pickup trucks to build and grow our province...and pull the odd car out of the snowbank."