JOB-CREATING SASKPOLY PROGRAM MOVING OUT OF SASKATOON, SCOTT MOE SITS ON HANDS

Electronic Systems Engineering Students Forced to Relocate after Sask. Party Funding Cuts
SASKATOON – Scott Moe and the Sask. Party’s cuts are tearing students away from their homes and families as Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s electronic systems engineering technology (ESET) program is being forced to abruptly relocate from the Saskatoon campus to Regina.

“Dozens of students are being forced to up and move because of Scott Moe's failure to properly fund our post-secondary sector,” said Kim Breckner, Shadow Minister of Trade and Export Development.
“This means that students are now scrambling to sort out financial assistance and family arrangements without warning. This is not how a healthy postsecondary sector or a competent government should function.”

A joint letter to Premier Moe this week, signed by 21 ESET students, states that “many students are young and are only able to afford this education by living at home. Others have young families that cannot simply be abandoned for a year.

“We were also told that this decision was a direct result of a mandate from the provincial government ... this decision delivered to us on Jan. 29 was totally unexpected and came with zero consultation from students or faculty,” the letter went on to state.

“Campus to campus, my commute will now be three hours and three minutes,” said Timothy Carlow, a first-year ESET student. “Originally living in British Columbia, I moved to Saskatoon and bought a house here so that I could comfortably enroll in this program, but now I am being told by the school that I must again relocate.

“I personally find this outrageous and disrespectful to the students who are paying to complete a very intense program, a program that is regularly hired out of by Saskatchewan-based companies, such as Nutrien and Calian.”

“This is not normal, it is not right, and it sends the message that Scott Moe and his team lack competence, compassion, and just don’t care about the impact their policies are having on the people of this province,” added Breckner.

“This hurts students, it hurts teachers, it hurts SaskPoly, and it hurts our future competitiveness as a province. It’s time for change.”

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