The budget’s focus, she said in an embargoed news conference Tuesday morning, is on protecting the “health and public safety of Saskatchewan people and the province's economy in the fight against COVID-19,” while making “record investments in health care, education, social services, and the protection of people and property.”
This budget “will protect Saskatchewan people through the pandemic, as more vaccines are delivered and life begins to return to normal," Harpauer said in speaking to reporters in an embargoed news conference Tuesday. "This budget will build Saskatchewan by investing in new long-term care facilities, hospitals, schools, highways and vital municipal infrastructure. And as our province and our economy emerges from the pandemic, this budget will grow Saskatchewan through incentives and key investments, while keeping life affordable for families."