SASKATCHEWAN SEES POPULATION GROWTH STALL, PEOPLE CONTINUE TO LEAVE FOR OTHER PROVINCES

Saskatchewan NDP Launches ‘Your Future, Your Say’ Consultations Focused On Keeping Young People In Province

REGINA – Saskatchewan’s future is literally leaving the province at an alarming rate after 18 years of the Sask. Party — and Scott Moe and his Ministers have no plan to keep young people here, draw former residents’ home, or to attract newcomers.

According to Statistics Canada, Saskatchewan’s population growth in the third quarter of 2025 was the lowest it’s been since the pandemic. A year-over-year comparison shows that Saskatchewan's population growth in the third quarter of 2025 was only 26% of what it was in the third quarter of 2024.

“We need real solutions to the major issues we face and a government that’s focused on the future,” said Noor Burki, Saskatchewan NDP Immigration and Career Training Shadow Minister. “We need an economic plan for the future, a plan for big bold change in healthcare so it’s there for people and a plan to ensure our children get a good education in a good school.

“These are the basics, and we see the Sask. Party failing over and over on these issues.”

Saskatchewan has had a net negative outflow of people to other provinces — over 52,000 residents — in nearly every quarter since 2018, the year Scott Moe became Premier.

In the coming weeks, Burki, along with his colleagues and the Shadow Minister for Advanced Education Tajinder Grewal, will be engaging in consultation with young professionals and students — our future leaders — as well as labour groups and key industry players in sectors facing skilled worker shortages on what the provincial government can do to keep people working in Saskatchewan.

A survey is already being distributed to key stakeholder groups and “Your Future, Your Say” town halls are being planned for the coming months.

“We know post-secondary education is critical to solving so many of our problems, but we need people who graduate with a degree/diploma here to stay and work in Saskatchewan,” said Tajinder Grewal, Saskatchewan NDP Advanced Education Shadow Minister.

“This is how we add more frontline healthcare workers, it’s how we build our economy with new innovation and technology development and so much more.”

Burki added: “Population growth is critical to our province’s economy, to driving investment and job creation.

“We look forward to collaborating with innovators and job creators to determine how the next Saskatchewan NDP Government can get us back to an era of growth, where the future is bright and people want to work and raise their families right here in Saskatchewan.”

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