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The Saskatchewan Party Caucus...
Working for You to Secure Saskatchewan's Future
| SIX MONTH ANNIVERSARY FOR SASKPARTY GOVERNMENT May 20, 2008 Our government was sworn in six months ago. In that short time, we have accomplished more than the NDP did in 16 years. Click here for more. FOR THE RECORD May 18, 2008 Columnist Murray Mandryk says your Saskatchewan Party government is DOING THE RIGHT THING with our revitalization project in Saskatoon's inner city. To read Mandryk's column, click here. GROWTH, COMPASSION AND PROMISES May 15, 2008 Several SaskParty MLAs stood in the House today and delivered passionate member statements celebrating the accomplishments of the spring session. Moose Jaw North MLA Warren Michelson talked about Growth and Opportunity. Click here. Saskatoon Sutherland MLA Jocelyn Schriemer was up next on Security and Compassion. Click here. Regina Qu'Appelle Valley MLA Laura Ross led off on keeping Promises. Click here. Lloydminster MLA Tim McMillan was on clean-up, finishing off that list of Promises. Click here. THE COVERUP The NDP refuse to release the letter that would tell the people of Saskatchewan if former caucus chief of staff Jim Fodey was fired or not. At stake: Fodey's $131,000 severance package. Wood River MLA Yogi Huyghebaert is demanding answers: "Well, Mr. Speaker, the cover-up continues..." For more, click here. THEN AND NOW How times change... "...this isn't a clean source of power. It's probably the dirtiest..."
"I think that we indicated very clearly that we were looking at all options including a nuclear reactor." THE REAR-VIEW MIRROR NDP stuck in reverse on labour issues Wood River MLA Yogi Huyghebaert's member statement from Monday, May 5, 2008: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Well, Mr. Speaker, shortly after the last election the editor of the NDP's newsletter The Commonwealth wrote a scathing article outlining the NDP government's numerous failures that led to its defeat in the 2007 election." For more, click here.
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Spring Session
The spring sitting of the legislature is now underway. The assembly sits daily from Monday to Thursday. Question Period takes place at approximately 2 p.m. (M-W) and 10:30 a.m. (Th). Watch the proceedings live here. |
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DION ADMITS IT: LIBERAL'S "GREEN SHIFT" IS AN ATTACK ON SASKATCHEWAN AND ALBERTA June 27, 2008 In a story in today's Globe and Mail, Liberal Leader Stephane Dion admits his "Green Shift" carbon tax plan will hit Saskatchewan and Alberta hard. Dion said Saskatchewan and Alberta will have to change their habits, but it will be good for them, and the two provinces will be better off "10 years from now." Saskatchewan Energy and Resources Minister Bill Boyd calls Dion's attitude "appallingly arrogant." "I think Saskatchewan is doing pretty well right now, but Mr. Dion wants to put us back in our place and tell us he knows what's best for us," Boyd said. "Mr. Dion's "green shaft" plan is a flat-out attack on our new prosperity here in Saskatchewan, it's going to hit every Saskatchewan resident hard, and we shouldn't stand for it." "I don't put much faith in some vague Liberal promise that we'll be better off 10 years from now, just like their promise to eliminate the GST," Boyd said. Boyd said Dion's plan is old-style Liberal politics - trying to curry favour in the east at the expense of the west. "It's just like Trudeau's National Energy Program, and it took us years to recover from that," Boyd said. DOING WHAT THE NDP COULD NOT Working with the feds, not against June 20, 2008 Our government is rolling up its sleeves to work alongside the federal government to build a new bridge in Saskatoon. That follows years of a confrontational, hand-out mentality by the NDP that accomplished very little for the families of this province. Saskatchewan's share of the $243 million Circle Drive South River Crossing project is $86.5 million. The funding comes from the largest-ever infrastructure investment in Saskatchewan's history, the $1 billion Ready for Growth initiative contained in this year's budget. It will go towards fixing highways, hospitals and schools neglected by the NDP for 16 years. For a history on Circle Drive and the South River Crossing, click here. TACKLING THE CHALLENGE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING HEAD-ON Your Saskatchewan Party government accepts report from affordable housing task force June 5, 2008 We did what we said we would. Our government pledged to address the affordable housing crisis, to ensure all Saskatchewan people shared in the prosperity. Two months ago, we announced the formation of the Task Force on Housing Affordability. The task force has released its report, after exhaustive research and consultation. Task Force members Ted Merriman and Bob Pringle consulted with 85 individuals, groups and organizations, and accepted 53 written submissions. Your Saskatchewan Party government has accepted the report and is now studying it. For more, click here. Reaction to the Task Force on Housing Affordability report has been positive. For that story, click here. HIGH PRAISE FOR YOUR SASKPARTY GOVERNMENT Premier Brad Wall wows them in Calgary; new job recruitment campaign the right call May 24, 2008 Our government is firing on all cylinders. Premier Brad Wall got top marks for his speech at a recent Calgary fundraiser. Calgary Herald columnist Don Braid called Premier Wall "...one of the best speakers I've ever heard in Canadian politics," adding "It's hard to be inspired by potash and uranium, but he can actually do it." Click here to read "Calgary bows to the great Wall" We are also being praised for our latest initiative to address the skilled labour shortage: an on-line recruitment campaign focussing on Ontario. In the column "Recruitment is job No. 1" the writer says an out-of-province recruitment campaign is needed due to the strength of the Saskatchewan economy. "There is another message, too: that skilled workers are the backbone of any economy; training and retaining them is vital to growth." To read the entire column, click here. PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT
May 15, 2008
Those are just a few highlights of the first session of the legislature for your Saskatchewan Party government. "In less than six months in office, we have delivered on over 60 election promises and passed our Ready for Growth budget, which includes an unprecedented $1 billion investment in Saskatchewan hospitals, schools, and highways," said Premier Brad Wall. "This session was about delivering on our commitments to the people of Saskatchewan and our government has done just that." For a complete list of the Promises Kept, click here.
Majority support a refinery or reactor May 15, 2008 Your Saskatchewan Party government is on the right track when it comes to nuclear development that will undo decades of damage under the NDP. A new poll shows people are no longer buying into the decades of NDP fear-mongering, and are in favour of having either a refinery or reactor built in Saskatchewan. For more, click here. NDP VOTE AGAINST PUBLIC SAFETY May 14, 2008 Putting public safety first, your Saskatchewan Party MLAs voted unanimously today in favour of essential services legislation that balances public safety with the right to strike. Opposition MLAs voted against the legislation. Are the NDP playing politics with people's lives? For more, click here. TAXPAYERS STUCK WITH $131,000 BILL FOR NDP FRAUD SCANDAL AND COVER-UP NDP Said Chief of Staff Resigned - So Why Does He Get Severance? May 12, 2008 Saskatchewan Party MLA Dan D'Autremont wants to know why the NDP has authorized a $131,000 taxpayer-funded severance payment to their former Chief of Staff Jim Fodey, after the NDP claimed he resigned. Last year, in the wake of the NDP Caucus fraud scandal, NDP MLA Kim Trew said: "Mr. Fodey resigned as a result of incomplete information given to the public and to NDP House Leader Glenn Hagel regarding an incident that occurred in 1992." The NDP have now changed their story, with NDP MLA and Caucus Chair Frank Quennell now calling it an "involuntary resignation." For more, click here. THE BIG PAYOFF
May 10, 2008 Your SaskParty MLAs are calling on the NDP to foot the entire bill for their former caucus chief of staff's rich severance package. For being the fall guy in the NDP Fraud Scandal, Jim Fodey will receive $113,511 in public money. The NDP have always maintained Fodey RESIGNED. Under legislative rules, only people TERMINATED WITHOUT CAUSE are eligible for a severance package. "There should be no severance package if he resigned. [...] Now it simply looks like it's a payoff for him being the fall guy," said Government Services Minister and Cannington MLA Dan D'Autremont. For more, click here. THE END OF THE ANTI-NUKE ERA SaskParty looking to the future, NDP stuck in the past May 8, 2008 Nuclear is back on the table. Ontario-based Bruce Power has approached your Saskatchewan Party government about building a nuclear power plant here. Talks are in the very early stages, but the safety of Saskatchewan citizens is our government's number one priority. Extensive public consultations would have to be held. Transparency is of the utmost importance. For decades, pro-NDP anti-nuke radicals have prevented Saskatcheawn from realizing the potential of the province's nuclear riches. For a great editoral on the end of the anti-nuke era, click here. This editorial says it's an idea whose time has come. Click here.
WIDESPREAD SUPPORT FOR NEW LABOUR LEGISLATION Who are the NDP speaking for? May 5, 2008 A Sigma-Analytics poll commmissioned by the Regina Leader-Post shows support for your Saskatchewan Party government's new labour legislation ranges from "moderate" to "exceptionally good." In a telephone survey of 510 people done in late April, 70 per cent supported the provision contained in Bill 5 - The Public Service Essential Services Act which states management and the union should be required to negotiate in advance which jobs are to be maintained in a strike. 75 per cent of survey respondents supported the idea of a secret ballot vote on whether or not to have a union, a key component of Bill 6 - The Trade Union Amendment Act, 2007. The survey also indicated that there is strong support for the proposed legislation within union households, which begs the question: who are the NDP speaking for? By fighting tooth and nail against these changes, the NDP have shown once again they are disconnected from the people of Saskatchewan and have no vision for the future. Essential services legislation balances public safety and the right to strike. The amendments to the Trade Union Act make the workplace more democratic. Both pieces of legislation are expected to pass before the end of the spring sitting of the Saskatchewan Legislature, May 15, 2008. For more, click here. NDP VIOLATE PRIVACY OF SASKATCHEWAN PEOPLE April 29, 2008 Some former NDP cabinet ministers are breaking the law and violating Saskatchewan people's privacy. All former Ministers are required by law to archive ministerial correspondence they have received in their capacity as Ministers, including private letters from Saskatchewan citizens. This is because all of the letters and correspondence received by Ministers is the property of the Crown, not of individual Ministers. Most former NDP Ministers have failed to do so. For more click here.
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SUPPORT HIGH FOR NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT
Fodey rewarded for being NDP fall guy
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