REGINA - Today, Official Opposition House Leader Nicole Sarauer and Advanced Education Critic Jennifer Bowes stood with the University of Regina Faculty Association to call on Scott Moe’s Sask. Party government to make good on record resource revenues and provide the funding needed to stop the damaging cuts forecasted by university leadership.
“Since Scott Moe took office, our province has been dead last in Canada in terms of jobs and economic growth,” said Sarauer. “We need thousands of skilled workers in our healthcare system, in our natural resources sector, and in new sectors like renewables and technology. Universities like the U of R play an important role in driving future job creation and this government needs to get serious about harnessing their full potential.”
In 2017, the Sask. Party government slashed University of Regina funding. Tuition has since climbed year-after-year to some of the highest levels in Canada. Enrolments have declined with many prospective students priced out of Saskatchewan universities.
“We have some of the highest tuition prices in Canada and the lowest minimum wage in the country. The Sask. Party government is essentially pricing students out of the classroom and driving them out of the province,” said Bowes. “Premier Moe needs to start treating education as an investment, not as a cost.”
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Poor working conditions, favouritism, $300K travel nurse pay at issue
REGINA - Today, the Official Opposition released a letter signed by 49 emergency room nurses in Saskatoon. The letter slams the Sask. Party government for failing to support Saskatchewan nurses and curb the province’s reliance on expensive out-of-province travel nurses.
REGINA - Today, Official Opposition Critic for First Nations and Métis Relations Betty Nippi-Albright hosted a Day of Action with Indigenous leaders from Nekaneet First Nation, Yellow Quill First Nation, Waterhen Lake First Nation, Onion Lake Cree Nation, Carry The Kettle First Nation, Key First Nation and the residential school support team from Yorkton Tribal Council. Together, they continue to draw attention to the Sask. Party government’s disregard for the Duty to Consult process.
MOOSE JAW - Today, the Official Opposition stood with Taylor Enns, president of the Moose Jaw Firefighters Association, and Brayden Dutchak, the son of a cancer survivor. Together, they called on the Sask. Party government to reopen Saskatchewan’s only hyperbaric chamber.
Records show former Sask. Party Finance Minister lobbied for Calgary surgery scheme on behalf of a major Sask. Party donor
REGINA - Today, the Official Opposition grilled the Premier and his Minister of Health after the Minister misled the public, claiming that he had not been lobbied by a former Sask. Party MLA when Saskatchewan's official lobbyist logs show the exact opposite.