Saskatoon election: Mayor hopefuls square off in debate [Video]

Four Saskatoon mayoral candidates had their chance to challenge each other on various issues during a televised debate Wednesday night.

The debate was hosted by the Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce and featured former city councillor Cynthia Block, former MLA Gord Wyant, former mayor Don Atchison, and Cary Tarasoff.

As per an announcement at the outset of the debate, candidate Mike Harder wasn’t invited to participate, because the debate features the top four mayoral candidates who have “engaged the chamber throughout the election process.”

The quartet debated topics like city responsibilities, rising taxes, and business attraction before moving on to more specific topics like homelessness, the downtown event and entertainment district, and the housing accelerator fund.

“It would be really great if other orders of government were taking responsibility for their jurisdiction. Unfortunately, I just don’t think that the residents of our city want us to squabble about jurisdiction when we’re …