REGINA – It is a relatively quiet Thanksgiving weekend on the campaign trail in Saskatchewan.
Parties have been scaling down their media announcements as families focus on Thanksgiving and enjoying the long weekend.
The Sask Party had no further media events this weekend following the announcement of their platform in Saskatoon. The New Democrats, however, had a couple of events.
On Saturday as the Saskatchewan Party was releasing its platform, Trent Wotherspoon was at the home of a local family criticizing the Sask Party’s recent campaign promises of tax cuts and tax credits, claiming they are too small and will take too much time to take effect.
Wotherspoon later joined Ron Styles at another media event Saturday where they criticized the Sask Party platform as meaning cuts to health care and education, when accounting for inflation and population growth in future years.
On Sunday, the NDP held a media event outside Regina General Hospital in which Meara Conway was joined by health care and education workers.
There, the NDP continued to pound away on the theme that the Sask Party platform meant cuts to health and education. Conway accused Moe of releasing a “platform that makes no new investments in our overcrowded schools and our overcrowded emergency rooms.”
On Saturday, the Saskatchewan Party released a statement where they said the platform “includes the record increases to health and education in the 2024-25 budget – a $726 million or 10 per cent increase in health funding and a $247 million or eight per cent lift in education funding” — and that the Ministry of Finance’s four-year forecast includes funding increases to all areas of government, including health and education every year.
This coming week, the focus of the campaigns will turn to the provincial televised debate Wednesday night. The debate between Scott Moe and Carla Beck will take place at the rotunda of the Saskatchewan Legislature. Harvard Media has joined the consortium and you can catch the debate at 6:05 p.m. on our platforms including 620 CKRM, GX94, and SaskToday.ca.