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A provincial budget that protects, builds and grows Saskatchewan and a Re-Opening Roadmap that charts a course through the end of the pandemic based on high vaccination rates were the highlights of the spring legislative sitting, which wrapped up today in Regina. Premier Scott Moe said the 2021-22 Budget provides historic investments in health, education, infrastructure and economic recovery, while at the same time continuing work toward the government s commitment to balance the budget by 2026-27. We have a framework in place to ensure Saskatchewan has a strong economic recovery coming out of the pandemic, Moe said. We now have a roadmap to lead those reopening efforts, bring back jobs, and get Saskatchewan back on the path of strong economic growth, where we were before the pandemic started.
The good COVID-19 news is vaccinations in Saskatchewan surpassed 400,000 shots last week. Premier Scott Moe is right: vaccines are our best chance to get out of this pandemic mess. The less-than-good-news, however, is Regina intensive care units remain full and the new variants are spreading to Saskatoon and elsewhere. To their credit, Moe and Health Minister Paul Merriman delivered a stronger message to anti-mask, anti-lockdown rallies in cities and smaller centres like Maple Creek, stating that any such gatherings break public health orders and slow down our ability to get through this pandemic. But how he can more quickly get through all of this as we administer the first shot to everyone during the coming months continues to be a huge source of debate and contention.
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When we think about turning points in Saskatchewan political history, we tend to think about the big days election days, budgets, bills or days with huge policy pronouncements.
We think about Oct. 13, 1961 when the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government introduced the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Bill ushering in nation-defining medicare.
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We think about Jan. 15, 1976 when the NDP government introduced An Act Respecting the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan that ushered in the potash “nationalization” debate that many view as the beginning of the end of the Allan Blakeney era. We think of April 20, 1989 when then Roy Romanow-led NDP opposition began ringing the bells over a bill to privatize SaskEnergy that’s seen as the end of Grant Devine’s Progressive Conservative ad
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