SASKATOON, Sask. — Saskatchewan New Democratic Leader Carla Beck has put her entire platform to voters before the Oct. 28 election. Beck says her plan offers change that is needed to help Saskatchewan hospitals, schools and families.
SASKATOON, Sask. — Saskatchewan New Democratic Leader Carla Beck has put her entire platform to voters before the Oct. 28 election.
It also promises $1 billion over four years to fix health care and $2 billion to build more schools and reduce classrooms sizes. “In Saskatchewan, we take care of each other, and we aren’t afraid to do the hard work to get big things done,” Beck said in a statement Friday.“It’s time to get Saskatchewan out of last place. This election, we can do that. We can change the government.”She said she would expand rural cellphone and broadband internet services, create a grant program for rinks and halls and"crack down" on illegal foreign farmland ownership.
The commission would investigate cost overruns for projects initiated and completed by the old Saskatchewan Party government, including a faulty payment system for health-care workers, hotel spending for social services clients and shady dealings involving a Regina highway project.
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