LEAKED HEALTH AUTHORITY BUDGET DOCUMENT SHOWS CRITICAL PROGRAMS WEREN’T FUNDED IN SCOTT MOE’S BAD NEWS BUDGET

Scott Moe Flatlined Funding Despite Healthcare Being In Worse Shape Than Ever
REGINA – An internal provincial health authority briefing note lays out critical funding requests that were ignored in Scott Moe’s bad news budget, one which saw him flatline healthcare funding despite unprecedented challenges.

The memo, leaked to Carla Beck’s team on Monday, shows that funding was denied for acute care beds in Regina, for emergency room mental health and addictions supports, sexual assault nurse examiners and many other critical initiatives.

The document leak came the same day that documents surfaced showing hospital intensive-care units in Saskatoon, Prince Albert and North Battleford were put on bypass over the past two weeks — meaning new critical care patients had to be rerouted to other communities, including Regina which has faced unprecedented wait times up to 91 hours and “very high safety risk” due to overcapacity. The Saskatchewan Health Authority, which includes numerous Moe allies and Sask. Party donors in its senior ranks — including the Premier’s former press secretary Jim Billington who is in charge of all communications coming out of the SHA — attempted to downplay the crisis in these hospitals during a hastily called Monday afternoon news conference.

“Scott Moe flatlined healthcare funding as the system literally collapses all around us” said Meara Conway, Shadow Health Minister. “After years of waste, mismanagement, and rewarding donors and insiders, the Sask. Party has left the healthcare system unable to meet even its most urgent needs. This is a premier and a 20-year-old Sask. Party government that is completely ignoring the chaos and crisis on the frontlines in our hospitals, clinics, and on our city streets.

“They drove Saskatchewan healthcare into the ground, and this document makes it clear they have no intention of digging us out.”

Mental Health & Addictions Shadow Minister Betty Nippi-Albright said denying funding for mental health and addictions supports can be the difference between life and death. Saskatchewan has the longest wait times for mental health treatment in Canada and nearly a person per day died of a drug overdose or poisoning in 2025.

“We’re losing young people — our literal future,” Nippi-Albright said. “We know these vital supports have been ignored for so long by Scott Moe and the Sask. Party. Wait times are unprecedented and this government couldn’t even lift a finger to meet the needs of volume pressures.

“People are dying and they aren’t even trying to save them.”

Women’s Health Shadow Minister Jacqueline Roy said failing to fund sexual assault nurse examiners was an unconscionable decision.

“These nurses are there for women in the worst moment of their lives — it’s critical that we have these supports on the frontline in our hospitals and communities,” Roy said. “Women’s healthcare has been ripped apart by Sask. Party cuts, and those guys can’t be trusted to fix it.”

The 2026–27 budget delivers an abysmal 0.3% increase to healthcare. Other programs requested by the SHA that did not receive funding include psychiatry support, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), kidney health, and a transitional care bed strategy.

“We don’t have to settle for a government that rejects the need to fund public healthcare and offers up a move to two-tier, American-style healthcare where their friends get care and everyone is left to suffer,” Conway said. “We can demand so much better — Saskatchewan led the nation in healthcare, and we can do it again.

“It’s time for change.”

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