Hansard Subject Index - 28th Legislature
- Qu'Appelle Valley Friendship Centre
- Queen's Bench Amendment Act, 2016 (No. 4)
- Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs and Justice Committee
- Committee discussion
- Committee, report without amendment, moved (Heppner),
N110
- Waive committee of the Whole on Bills
- Question period [Session 1]
- Adoption
- Children with complex needs, government support for adoptive families
- Agriculture, programs
- Growing Forward 2 agreement
- Expiry and renewal, support for farmers and ranchers
- Alcohol
- Retail
- Wholesale markups, increase
- Ambulance service
- First Nations seniors, senior citizen's ambulance assistance program, exclusion from
- Automobile insurance
- Injury coverage, management of
- Boundary dam carbon capture project
- Carbon sales, contract with Cenovus
- Financial management, lack of transparency
- Production capacity and amine costs
- Production capacity and maintenance
- Production capacity issues, transparency
- Bridges
- Prince Albert, second bridge
- Budget, 2017-18
- Balance, return to, 3-year plan
- Taxation and government priorities
- Budgets
- Balanced budget legislation
- And fiscal accountability framework
- Upcoming, and election promises
- Buffalo Narrows Community Correctional Centre, closure
- Meeting with community to explain rationale for decision
- Transfer of inmates
- And overcrowding in other facilities
- Carbon sequestration
- And climate change policy
- Test facility at Shand power station
- Carbon tax
- Carbon pricing, provincial initiatives
- Carbon pricing, provincial versus federal imposition
- Cattle industry
- Bovine tuberculosis in Alberta, measures to protect Saskatchewan ranchers
- Child care
- Licensed centres, property taxes
- Inconsistent application for non-profits
- Special needs, shift from block funding to individualized funding
- Child welfare
- Legislation, review and update
- Child welfare, children in care
- Child welfare, First Nations children in care
- Children
- Vulnerable, programming
- Early childhood intervention program
- Climate change
- Government targets and plans
- Community-based organizations
- Health Ministry, funding reduction
- Construction industry
- Services, provincial sales tax exemption, eliminated
- Job losses and industry slowdown
- Coroners
- Coroner's and toxicology reports, long delays
- Coroner's inquest into handling of Nadine Machiskinic's death, need for
- Correctional centres
- Food services, contract with Compass Foodservice
- Prince Albert Correctional Centre
- Courthouses
- Security, deputy sheriffs, layoffs
- Courts
- Aboriginal court worker program
- Court delays, Jordan decision
- Risk of cases being thrown out
- Weyburn, Queen's Bench services, transfer to Estevan
- Crime, prevention and intervention
- Building partnerships to reduce crime initiative
- Provincial Auditor's report (2016) and lack of funding
- Crown corporations
- Privatization, defining with legislation
- And protection for SaskTel pensions
- Crown land
- Provincial Lands Act
- Consultation regarding changes
- Deaf persons
- Children
- Provision of hearing services
- Hearing Aid Plan
- Audiologists, publicly-funded
- Elimination, and continued coverage of cochlear implants and bone-anchored devices
- Reduced funding and audiology services
- Reduced funding and private provider availability
- Diagnostic imaging
- Two-for-one private-pay model
- Canada Health Transfer, implications for
- Expansion to computerized tomography scans
- Legislation, potential loophole to allow more private-pay services
- Domestic violence
- Reduction, government plans
- Drainage
- Agricultural water management strategy
- Education
- Staff, educational assistants
- Education, funding
- And funding for student support staff
- And public libraries, funding
- And regional libraries, funding
- And restricting class sizes
- And school board autonomy
- First Nations and Métis
- Federal funding, update regarding joint letter sent to federal government
- Operational, funding for growth and need for efficiencies
- Staff reductions, impact on student outcomes
- Staff reductions and school board autonomy
- Student support staff, impact on outcomes
- Workers' compensation rebates and education property tax
- Education Ministry
- Regional intersectoral committees
- Education property tax
- Increase and redirection into General Revenue Fund
- Electricity
- Coal-fired power generation, equivalency agreement
- Employment
- First Nations and Métis
- Employment opportunities and mental health services, lack of
- Initiatives and education, funding gap
- Environmental protection
- Government strategy and actions
- First Nations
- And Métis
- Government support and Aboriginal input in Northern schools
- Floods
- Anti-flood strategy for Quill Lakes area
- Forests and forestry
- Reforestation
- Contracts, out-of-province
- Gambling
- Responsible gaming
- GameSense, elimination of positions
- Global Transportation Hub
- Land transfer to Canadian Pacific Railway
- Freedom of information request
- Land value and sale price
- Global Transportation Hub, land acquisition deal
- Harrison,
739–40,
770–71,
797–98,
969,
1122–23,
1149,
1236–37,
1358–60,
1693,
1881,
2038–39
- Wotherspoon,
738–40,
770–72,
797–98,
969,
1121–23,
1148–49,
1235–36,
1271–72,
1358–59,
1693,
1881,
2038
- Appraisals
- Use in negotiations, remarks by Premier
- Cabinet document, alleged leak
- Freedom of information requests
- Investigation and prosecution, use of out-of-province prosecutors
- Land speculator
- Concealed identity, government action
- Harrison,
943–44,
1026–28,
1093–94,
1124,
1394–97,
1460,
1567,
1618,
1644,
1667,
1724,
1810,
1835,
1857
- Wall,
942–43,
1025–26,
1092–93,
1393–94,
1431–32,
1459–60,
1566–67,
1617–18,
1748,
1834–35
- Wotherspoon,
942–44,
1025–27,
1092–94,
1124,
1393–94,
1431–32,
1459–60,
1566–67,
1617–18,
1644,
1667,
1724,
1748,
1810,
1834–35,
1857
- Unknown identity, contact with minister responsible
- Land speculators and Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, difference in sale values
- Global Transportation Hub, land acquisition processes audit
- Conclusions and recommendations, review
- Review in Public Accounts Committee, key officials as witnesses
- Government
- Email
- Private account, use for official business
- Transparency and accountability
- Government buildings
- Custodial services, privatization
- Government financial management
- Doherty,
1124,
1360–62,
1394–95,
1422,
1461–62,
1476,
1542–43,
1619–20,
1645–46,
1668–69,
1724–25,
2358,
2371
- Sproule,
246–47,
1124,
1360–62,
1394–95,
1422,
1461–62,
1476,
1619–20,
1668,
1836,
2357
- Wall,
244–48,
1124,
1421–22,
1460–61,
1542,
1810–11,
1836,
1839,
2188,
2218,
2574
- Wotherspoon,
244–46,
1421,
1460–61,
1542,
1645,
1724,
1810–11,
1838–39,
2188,
2218,
2371,
2574
- Financial reports
- First quarter, absent, and mid-year, forthcoming
- Government financial management, debt
- Growth and Financial Security Fund
- Depletion
- And repealing of the legislation
- Health care
- Northern Saskatchewan
- Recruitment and retention
- Services, access to and funding for
- Reforms, Fyke Commission recommendations, implementation
- Health care, lean management program
- Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, loss of accreditation
- Health facilities
- Craik and District Health Centre, services, misleading highway information sign
- Laundry services
- Hazardous objects in linens
- Maintenance and infrastructure funding
- Preeceville and District Health Centre
- Emergency room and acute care services, suspended
- Health Ministry
- Collective bargaining, joint job evaluations
- HealthLine
- Staff, mental health workers, availability
- Highways and roads
- Wollaston Lake road
- Construction, government commitment
- HIV infections
- Medication, universal access, and reduction in rates
- Provincial rates
- Highest in Canada and government plan
- Homeless shelters
- Lighthouse Supported Living
- Hospitals
- Capacity challenges and patient flow initiatives
- Victoria Hospital, Prince Albert
- Funding and recognition as a tertiary centre
- Hospitals, emergency rooms
- Over-capacity and off-load delays for ambulances
- Wait times
- And cuts to front-line care
- Government targets and initiatives
- Infrastructure
- Canada Infrastructure Bank
- Interns
- Gradworks Intern Development Program
- Job creation
- Employment development, lack of
- Government record and support for women
- Justice Ministry
- Written questions, response time
- Languages
- Heritage language education
- Extracurricular, funding elimination
- Legislative Assembly members
- Code of conduct violation, impaired driving, member's return to caucus
- Remuneration reduction
- And decrease to caucus office budgets
- Implications for public service employees
- Libraries, public
- Funding reduction
- Impact on interlibrary borrowing
- Liquor stores
- Request for proposal process
- Long-term care facilities
- Chief executive officers tours, reports, release to public
- Medical personnel
- Shortages, guidelines and impact on patient care
- Residents
- Seniors, antipsychotic drugs
- And physical restraints, use of
- Meewasin Valley Authority
- Mental health services
- First Nations and Métis
- Lack of services and suicide prevention strategy
- Northern Saskatchewan
- Recruitment and retention
- Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region
- Front-line staff, reduction and effect on service delivery
- Métis
- Daniels decision, Supreme Court of Canada (April 14, 2016), government's response
- Municipalities
- Villages, regulation changes, amalgamation with local rural municipalities
- Municipalities, funding
- Grants-in-lieu, SaskPower and SaskEnergy, discontinuation
- And use of municipal reserve funds or tax increases
- Infrastructure and services
- Reduction and consultation
- Northern Saskatchewan
- Consultation and cultural sensitivity
- Engagement with First Nations and Métis
- Oil industry
- Orphaned wells
- Cleanup proposal, out-of-province contracts
- Relocation incentives, Premier's offer (March 2017), associated costs and planning
- Parks
- Urban
- Funding
- Elimination for 5 urban parks
- Pensions
- Canada Pension Plan
- Update agreement with federal government to increase contributions
- Physicians
- And specialists
- Recruitment issues and suspension of Specialist Resident Bursary Program
- Specialists
- Availability and impact on surgical wait times
- Pipelines
- Oil spill, North Saskatchewan River
- Husky incident report, extension granted
- Inspection reports, release of
- Political parties
- Donations
- Corporate, union, and out-of-province
- Corporations and lobbyists
- Post-secondary institutions
- Open educational resources, funding commitment under New West Partnership
- Potash industry
- BHP Billiton Jansen mine, new
- Status of project and addressing community concerns
- Yancoal mine, proposed
- Community consultations, Southey and surrounding area
- Environmental impact assessment
- Poverty
- Global, Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation
- Saskatchewan Matching Grants in Aid Program, funding reduction
- Reduction strategy
- And supports for the vulnerable
- Prisoners
- Deaths in custody
- And access to medical services
- Coroner's inquest, removal of requirement
- Coroner's inquest and jury recommendations
- First Nations and Métis
- Overrepresentation in correctional facilities
- Job skills programs, funding cuts
- Youth
- Increased incarceration and recidivism rates
- Provincial Capital Commission
- Provincial sales tax
- Changes
- And increased utility costs
- Impact on retailers and small businesses
- Exemptions eliminated
- And shift from productivity to consumption
- Children's clothes and diapers
- Public-private partnerships
- Public service
- Compensation reduction to reduce deficit
- And opening collective bargaining agreements
- Reduction
- To reduce deficit, custodial services and responsible gaming programming
- Transformational change
- Core services, employees and compensation
- Public welfare
- Income assistance programs
- Cuts to social programs and shift towards Transitional employment allowance program
- Income assistance programs, clients
- Funding for funeral services, elimination
- Railways
- Grain backlog
- Legislative improvements, federal
- Regina bypass
- Public-private partnership with Vinci (France)
- Contract details, access to
- Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region
- Violence in the workplace, increase
- Regional health authorities
- Administration, expenses, reduction
- Single provincial health authority, creation of
- Renewable energy
- Water power
- Tazi Twé hydroelectric project, Black Lake
- Saskatchewan assured income for disability program
- Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation
- And AgriStability
- Claims, upcoming (2017), availability of funds
- Saskatchewan Government Insurance
- Saskatchewan Grain Car Corporation
- Elimination of program and sale of assets
- Saskatchewan Housing Corporation
- Saskatchewan Power Corporation
- Rates
- Increased and infrastructure spending
- Saskatchewan Telecommunications
- Call centre in Moose Jaw, reduced call volume and staffing
- Privatization
- Potential offers, discussions, formal and informal
- Saskatchewan Transportation Company
- Elimination
- Cancer patients, transportation to specialized medical services
- Employee termination and Canada Labour Code provisions
- Impact on vulnerable people
- Sale of assets and impact assessment
- Sale of assets and loss of services
- Saskatchewan Workers' Compensation Board
- Committee of review (2015-16)
- Recommendations, commitment to enact
- SaskBuilds Corporation
- Honorariums paid to unsuccessful bidders
- School boards and divisions
- Governance, education sector review
- Reserve funds
- Use of and implications for summary financial accounting
- Savings targets
- Ministerial direction, retraction of letter
- Transformational change, communication, lack of
- Trustees
- Transformational change, implications for
- School shooting, La Loche, 2016
- Schools, new
- Land prior to build, responsibility
- Sixties Scoop, government apology
- Social Services Ministry
- Child and family services
- Linkin program, electronic case management system
- Incomplete information on care providers
- Social workers
- Northern Saskatchewan
- Recruitment and retention, impact of wage decrease
- Suicides
- Children, Northern Saskatchewan
- 811 [HealthLine], availability of mental health supports
- Government actions and support
- Taxation
- Changes, impact on job creation
- Teacher education
- Northern teacher education program
- Transfer to Northlands College
- Northern teacher education program and Northern Professional Access College
- Five-year agreement, governance adjustment and funding redirection
- Teachers
- British Columbia, Supreme Court of Canada case, Saskatchewan government involvement
- Collective bargaining agreement, salary increase not fully funded
- Local implementation and negotiation committee agreements
- Trade agreements (commerce)
- Softwood lumber, United States tariff
- Treaties
- First Nations and Métis rights, and new Provincial Lands Act
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, calls to action
- Government implementation
- Government implementation, Northern Saskatchewan
- Unemployment
- Rate
- First Nations, government strategy to address disparity gap
- Youth, and lack of diversification in economy
- University of Saskatchewan
- College of Medicine
- Funding redirected from base operating budget
- Wakamow Valley Park, Moose Jaw
- Funding elimination and job losses in Wakamow Valley Authority
- Water Security Agency
- Delays in handling drainage disputes
- Legislation, new, impact assessment and consultation
- Women
- Status of Women Office
- Staffing, and government support for women
- Workers' compensation
- Cancers, work-related, presumptive coverage for firefighters
- Question period [Session 2]
- Abortion
- Members' positions on, and access to
- Agriculture Ministry
- Satellite offices and extension services
- Airports
- And roads, Northern Saskatchewan, funding
- And runway safety, impact on public safety
- Autism
- Individualized funding
- Application process and list of eligible services
- Individualized funding, early childhood intervention, and learning supports
- Boundary dam carbon capture project
- Boundary dam 4 and 5, future conversion plans
- And renewable energy targets
- Maintenance costs and potential expansion to other facilities
- Bridges
- Prince Albert, second bridge
- Budget, 2017-18
- Balance, return to, 3-year plan
- Budget, 2018-19
- Finance minister, comments about females and math skills
- Upstream spending and increased debt
- Cabinet ministers
- Legislative secretaries, work product and compensation
- Canadian Armed Forces
- Pilot training, consolidation of programs and future of 15 Wing Moose Jaw
- Reservists, pension protection
- Cannabis
- Non-medical use, legalization
- And pardons for possession offences prior to legalization
- Distribution and permitting, timeline
- Distribution and regulation, government consultations
- Carbon sequestration
- And climate change policy
- Carbon Capture and Storage Knowledge Centre, Regina
- Memorandums of understanding with foreign governments, information sharing
- Efficiency and cost-effectiveness
- Knowledge sharing and return on investment
- Carbon tax
- Federal imposition, provincial challenge
- Federal requirements to access energy infrastructure funding
- Child welfare, First Nations children in care
- Reduction strategy and work with First Nations agencies
- Community-based organizations
- Funding stability and importance of upstream investment
- Conflict of Interest Commissioner
- Corporate income tax
- Small business
- Income threshold, increase
- Correctional centres
- Inmate segregation
- Administrative, best practices
- Crime, prevention and intervention
- Crown corporations
- Privatization, defining with legislation
- Repeal provisions of Interpretation Amendment Act, 2016
- Repeal provisions of Interpretation Amendment Act, 2016, wind-up provision
- Repeal provisions of Interpretation Amendment Act, 2016 and implications for Saskatchewan Transportation Company
- Curriculum
- Treaty education, minister's remarks
- Treaty education, minister's remarks and overseeing of curriculum review
- Demonstrations
- First Nations child welfare and justice reform, protest camp in Wascana Park
- Discrimination
- Racism against First Nations, government comments
- Domestic violence
- And sexual assault
- Government strategies, development
- Death review panel
- Final report, release timing and recommendations
- Government efforts, rate reduction and survivor supports
- Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
- Donation teams
- Donation physicians
- Creation of one half-time job share
- Drainage
- Global Transportation Hub and City of Regina, unapproved ditch
- Lack of maintenance and impact on surrounding farmers
- Quill Lakes, common ground drainage diversion project
- And illegal drainage enforcement
- Drug and alcohol abuse
- Addictions services
- Buffalo Narrows project, support for
- Fentanyl and crystal meth, harm reduction efforts
- Opiates, crisis, government action
- Drugs and pharmaceuticals
- Pharmacare
- And prescription costs under Saskatchewan drug plan
- Economy
- Recovery measures and personal debt levels
- Education
- Sector relationships and school choice protection legislation
- Education, funding
- And funding for early years programming
- And funding for early years programming for special needs children
- And funding for student support staff
- Capital and educator costs
- Impact on student outcomes
- Predictability and transparency
- Restore funding, leadership campaign promise
- Education property tax
- Increase, and funding for education
- Increase and redirection into General Revenue Fund
- Electricity
- Northern Saskatchewan, affordability
- Employment
- Job posting website, saskjobs.ca, integration with National Job Bank
- And employment development funding
- Northern Saskatchewan, government support
- Employment insurance
- Parental leave, extension by federal government, need for updates to provincial legislation
- Environmental protection
- Legislation, charges brought against former member Bill Boyd
- Executive Council
- Chief of staff to the Premier, former, paid leave and severance package
- Federal government
- Equalization lawsuit and investment in Saskatchewan
- Film industry
- Sound stage, Regina
- Continued public ownership and industry supports
- First Nations
- And Métis
- Disparities, closing the gap with non-indigenous people, government efforts
- Floods
- Anti-flood strategy for Quill Lakes area
- Diversion to Last Mountain Lake, environmental assessment and impacts
- Freedom of information
- Legislation, strengthening
- Gaming framework agreement
- Crossover revenue and indigenous employment targets at casinos
- Global Transportation Hub
- Clients, Brightenview Development International Inc.
- Freedom of information request and commercially sensitive information
- Purchase and leasing plans
- Clients, map used to attract investment
- Finances, debt
- Debt level and divestment plans
- Land acquisition
- Cost, purchases and court settlements from expropriation
- Expropriated lands, resale values, and legal costs
- Sale and repurchase and settlement costs
- Land sales, unsold holdings
- Land sales to and agreements with other government entities
- Municipal designation, implications for hiring local and foreign employees
- Municipal services contract with Regina
- Global Transportation Hub, land acquisition deal
- Investigation, transparency and accountability
- Public inquiry and conflict of interest
- Resale of portions to Highways Ministry and borrow material agreement
- Transparency and accountability, and comments by leadership candidates
- Global Transportation Hub, land acquisition processes audit
- Information provided to the auditor and scope of audit
- Government
- Deputy ministers, access to
- Deputy ministers and officials, access to
- Email
- Premier's account, problems with and actions to correct
- Private account, use for official business
- Priorities, common ground with official opposition
- Resources, human and property, evaluation and divestment
- Transparency, accountability, and respect for privacy
- Government buildings
- Evaluation and potential sale
- Evaluation and potential sale, Central Services Minister's potential conflict of interest
- Government financial management
- Priority spending areas and pension liability reporting
- Social spending and government priorities
- Government Relations Ministry
- Duty to consult framework
- Health care
- Wait times
- Lab services and diagnoses
- Health facilities
- Ituna Pioneer Health Care Centre, lab services, reduction of hours
- Highways and roads
- Government job sites, prohibition on Alberta licence plates
- Saskatoon freeway, planning
- Impact on land speculation
- Local contractors, use of
- Highways and roads, safety
- Highway intersections
- Safety efforts and potential improvements
- HIV infections
- Medication and services, access and funding
- Provincial rates
- Highest in Canada and government plan
- Homeless shelters
- Youth shelter, Dories House, Swift Current, funding
- Hospitals
- Children's Hospital of Saskatchewan
- Mental health services, dedicated unit
- Recruitment
- Physicians and specialists
- New facilities, design considerations
- Victoria Hospital, Prince Albert, renewal
- And funding for other health facility projects
- Hospitals, emergency rooms
- Wait times
- Government targets and initiatives
- Housing, social
- Rental housing supplements, elimination
- And impact on people with disabilities
- And need for housing navigator
- Irrigation
- Permit approval process, application of former MLA Bill Boyd
- Job creation
- Government record and support for women
- Government strategy and record
- Justice administration
- First Nations and Métis programs, disparities
- Legislative Assembly members
- Boyd, Bill, professional conduct
- Federal nominations for sitting members
- Long-term care facilities
- Regina Pioneer Village, replacement plan
- Mental health
- Funding, federal and in-school supports
- Funding, federal and provincial
- Mental health services
- Children and youth
- Services and in-school supports
- Wait times and access to services
- Northern Saskatchewan
- Youth, access to services
- Minimum wage
- And average weekly earnings
- Motor vehicles
- Used, provincial sales tax exemption, changes
- Affordability and method of calculation
- Retroactive, impact on people who bought before the budget
- Municipalities
- Infrastructure
- Costs, removal of provincial sales tax exemption, impact on construction services
- Municipalities, funding
- Government support, Moose Jaw
- Government support, Prince Albert
- Northern Saskatchewan
- Funding and government support
- People with disabilities
- Transportation service, intermunicipal
- Pipelines
- Oil spill, North Saskatchewan River
- Husky incident report, public release
- Political parties
- Donations
- Corporate, union, and out-of-province
- Post-secondary education
- Northern Saskatchewan, programs and student supports
- Post-secondary institutions
- And student supports, funding
- Funding
- Decrease, impact on extra-curricular activities and student supports
- Diversification of sources
- Prairie Resilience: A Made-in-Saskatchewan Climate Change Strategy
- And renewable energy targets
- Property tax
- And education property tax, revaluation and increase
- Permanent residences within provincial parks, taxation of and service provision to
- Provincial sales tax
- Changes
- Impact on restaurants and small businesses
- Exemptions eliminated
- And shift from productivity to consumption
- Public-private partnerships
- Funding model, factors considered when choosing
- Public service
- Compensation reduction to reduce deficit
- Employees running in elections
- Public welfare
- Income assistance programs
- Railways
- Grain loading facilities, closure of
- Refuse and refuse disposal
- Scrap tire disposal program, elimination
- Regina bypass
- Construction, disposal of old asphalt
- Land acquisition
- Legal actions against government
- Impact on total land acquisition costs
- Original owners and prices, access to information
- Public-private partnership with Vinci (France)
- Ability to address community needs
- Regional health authorities
- Single provincial health authority, creation of
- Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program
- Misrepresentation by foreign national and allegations of fraud
- Program integrity and preferential access
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic
- Funding and market responsiveness
- Saskatchewan Power Corporation
- Rates
- Increased and infrastructure spending
- Relicensing of northern dams in perpetuity and duty to consult
- Saskatchewan Telecommunications
- Privatization
- And citizen health information portal development
- Saskatchewan Transportation Company
- Elimination
- Impact on health services
- Impact on vulnerable people
- Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association
- Advocacy days, annual lobby, government cancellation of meetings
- SaskEnergy Inc.
- Distribution rights, move from legislation to regulations
- School boards and divisions
- Northern divisions
- Governance changes, consultation and review
- School shooting, La Loche, 2016
- Damage to building, funding for repairs
- Schools
- Capital projects
- Funding
- Repairs and replacements, funding predictability
- Schools, new
- Public-private partnership funding model
- Costs, maintenance and interest
- And funding for other school projects
- Sexual assault
- Government efforts and development of strategy
- Response to, discussion in legislative assembly
- Sixties Scoop, government apology
- And actions towards closing the disparity gap
- And designation of day of memorial
- Skills training
- Provincial training allowance
- Refugees, eligibility of language instruction programs
- Students
- First Nations and Métis
- Funding, supports, and graduation rate
- Graduation rates and funding gap
- Suicides
- Prevention, Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations' strategy, funding and support
- Tax credits and incentives
- Energy-efficiency incentives and support for families with emissions reductions costs
- Teacher education
- Northern teacher education program
- Transfer to Northlands College
- Teachers
- And support staff, number
- Compensation reduction targets
- Compensation reduction targets and number of teachers and support staff
- Salaries, funding commitment
- Trade
- United States
- Steel and aluminum tariffs
- Tariffs and impact on jobs
- Transportation
- And warehousing, job numbers
- Trapping industry
- Trappers
- Licence fees for seniors, incompatible with fishing licence exemption
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, calls to action
- Government implementation
- Government implementation and report on progress
- Unemployment
- And further reduction of public service employees
- University of Saskatchewan
- Wascana Park and Wascana Centre Authority
- Commercial developments in park
- Wildfire management
- Funding
- And training and resources for northern First Nations communities
- Wildfires
- Southwestern Saskatchewan (October 2017)
- Damage to land and livestock, support for producers
- Workers' compensation
- Cancers, work-related, presumptive coverage for firefighters
- Workplaces
- Safety violations, employer penalties and liability
- Question period [Session 3]
- Abortion
- Members' positions on, and access to
- Airports
- Fond-du-Lac runway, improvements
- Pelican Narrows airport
- Improvements and access to health care
- Ambulance service
- Fees for inter-hospital transfers
- Autism
- Individualized funding, early childhood intervention, and learning supports
- Autobody repair
- Rural shops, concerns about new equipment requirements
- Budget, 2019-20
- Accuracy and transparency
- Balanced, culmination of 3-year plan
- Debt and taxation, impact on families and the economy
- Bus services
- Passenger services, intermunicipal
- Federal support for programs
- Cabinet ministers
- Travel, personal, payment for lodgings and involvement of Conflict of Interest Commissioner
- Child care
- Affordability and subsidy review
- Child welfare
- Legislation, review and update
- Child welfare, children in care
- Child welfare, First Nations children in care
- Newborn apprehensions, increased
- Overrepresentation, government actions and involvement of indigenous leaders
- Reduction efforts, government actions
- Children
- Dietary needs, nutrition and access
- Climate change
- Student protest and carbon tax challenge
- Coal
- Phase-out, transition planning for miners
- Community-based organizations
- Health Ministry, mental health and addictions service providers, funding
- Conflict of Interest Commissioner
- Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists
- Registry, 100-hour threshold
- Construction industry
- Services, provincial sales tax exemption, eliminated
- Job losses and industry slowdown
- Crime
- Rural
- Trespassing, legislative changes
- Crops
- Seed industry, royalties on farm-saved seeds
- Crown land
- Resource land, leases, fee increase
- Curriculum
- Treaty education, online survey
- Deaf persons
- Hearing Aid Plan
- Children, coverage, new technologies
- Diabetes
- Program delivery and performance management, coordination and oversight
- Discrimination
- National day of action against hate and intolerance (January 29th), declaration
- Racism, denunciation of
- And position on climate change
- Drug and alcohol abuse
- Addictions services
- And in-patient treatment, access and wait times
- Crystal meth, increased usage
- Opiate-substitution program physicians, licences revoked
- Drugs and pharmaceuticals
- Medical abortions, universal coverage
- Pharmacare
- And prescription costs under Saskatchewan drug plan
- Federal government interim report
- Early childhood education
- And child care
- Availability and affordability
- Preschool programs for children with intensive needs
- Economy
- Government policies and economic mobility
- Government record and cost of living
- Education
- Consultation and planning for the future
- Education, funding
- And funding for early years programming
- And funding for early years programming for special needs children
- And funding for innovation
- And northern teacher recruitment
- And teacher compensation reduction targets
- Class size and complexity
- Classroom complexity and teacher retention
- Planning for carbon tax costs
- Reduction, impact on classroom violence
- Restore funding, leadership campaign promise
- Rural deficits and innovation in education delivery
- Staff reductions, impact on student outcomes
- eHealth Saskatchewan
- Board members
- Chief executive officer, employment record
- Contracts, conflict of interest and value-for-money review
- Mandate, new, and Dumelie report
- Procurement
- Vendor-sponsored travel, Auditor's upcoming report
- Elections
- Fixed election dates and conflicts with other levels of government
- Provincial, polling stations on reserves and First Nations voter turnout
- Electricity
- Northern Saskatchewan, affordability
- Environment Ministry
- Field offices, service changes
- Exports
- Agricultural and agri-food
- China, restriction on trade
- Federal government
- Equalization, call for renewed legal action
- Fishing
- Saskatchewan Co-operative Fisheries, funding, and support for northern fishers
- Francophones
- Francophone affairs, transfer from Executive Council to Parks, Culture and Sport Ministry
- Freedom of information
- Investigation, village of Pinehouse
- And investigation into Global Transportation Hub
- Gangs
- Gang violence reduction strategy
- Geriatrics
- And long-term care, Northern Saskatchewan
- Global Transportation Hub
- Clients, considerations, services and land acquisition
- Free-flow access, infrastructure commitment
- West bypass, cost to Highways Ministry
- Land sales and development
- Global Transportation Hub, land acquisition deal
- Development potential and underground pipelines
- Impact on business viability and need for judicial inquiry
- Investigation, transparency and accountability
- Government
- Contracts, commercially-sensitive information and public disclosure
- Procurement
- And opportunities for local tradespeople
- Transparency and accountability
- Government financial management
- Austerity approach, impact on growth and future costs
- Group homes
- Weyburn, council decision to reject new group home project
- HeadStart on a Home program
- Health care
- Northern Saskatchewan
- Obstetric services, access
- Health facilities
- Laundry services
- Hazardous objects in linens
- Wait times, emergency rooms and in-patient mental health treatment
- Highways and roads
- Wollaston Lake road
- Construction, government commitment
- Highways and roads, safety
- Highway intersections
- Safety efforts and potential improvements
- HIV infections
- Medication and services, access and funding
- Hospitality industry
- Provincial sales tax, impact on business
- Hospitals
- Victoria Hospital, Prince Albert
- Maternity and obstetric services, capacity
- Hospitals, emergency rooms
- Over-capacity and off-load delays for ambulances
- Wait times
- Government targets and initiatives
- Irrigation
- Asset transfer to irrigation districts
- Agreements, non-disclosure clauses
- Job creation
- Government record and impact of expanded PST
- Legislative Assembly members
- Boyd, Bill, professional conduct
- Federal nominations for sitting members
- Libraries, public
- Saskatchewan Information & Library Services Consortium
- Literacy
- Family literacy supports, funding elimination
- Long-term care facilities
- Critical incidents, process improvements
- Grenfell, replacement facility
- Medical personnel
- Front-line staff, reinvesting administrative savings
- Preventative maintenance, facility replacement, and commitment to public funding
- Wait times, condition of facilities, and staffing levels
- Mental health facilities
- Emergency units
- Royal University Hospital, mental health assessment unit
- Emergency units and acute care beds
- Mental health services
- Children and youth
- Access to services and suicide reduction efforts
- Wait times and access to services
- Minimum wage
- $15 per hour, increase, impact on economy
- Adequacy and indexation formula
- Northlands College
- Board appointee Vince Natomagan, history of violent behaviour
- Oil industry
- Price per barrel
- Heavy oil, price differential, mitigation efforts
- Patients
- Discharge from facilities, safety and timeliness
- People with disabilities
- Northern Saskatchewan, supports and services, access
- Physicians
- Meadow Lake, pending shortage, recruitment and retention
- Specialists
- Wait times and recruitment efforts
- Pipelines
- Replacement program and support for local tradespeople
- Political parties
- Donations
- Corporate, union, and out-of-province
- Post-secondary institutions
- Board appointments, vetting process
- Potash industry
- Nutrien, head office presence in Saskatoon, tax incentives and legislative requirements
- Royalty review, postponed
- Royalty structure changes
- Supports for industry and workers
- Prairie Resilience: A Made-in-Saskatchewan Climate Change Strategy
- Government commitments to global solutions
- Priority Saskatchewan
- Contractor selection criteria, support for local contractors
- Single-window procurement model
- Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan
- Office consolidation, impact on services
- Provincial sales tax
- Changes
- Impact on economic recovery
- Public service
- Collective bargaining, amended compensation reduction targets, communication to unions
- Vendor-sponsored travel and gifts
- Employee policies and government review
- Public welfare
- Income assistance programs
- Regina bypass
- Construction and design deficiencies
- Public-private partnership with Vinci (France)
- Ability to address community needs
- Ability to address community needs and response timeliness
- Saskatchewan Legal Aid Commission
- Funding and staffing levels, impact on wait times
- Saskatchewan Power Corporation
- Facilities consolidation, Global Transportation Hub
- Infrastructure
- Maintenance, Auditor's report
- Saskatchewan Transportation Company
- Elimination
- Costs and impacts, review
- Schools
- Ecole St. Pius X
- Infrastructure needs and student safety
- Sexual assault
- Sexual assault centres, funding, and development of strategy
- Sixties Scoop, government apology
- And government action on recommendations
- And records for federal class action settlement
- Suicides
- Prevention, government initiatives and need for strategy
- Prevention strategy, need for, and funding for mental health and addictions
- Surface rights
- Legislation, updated, status
- Teacher education
- Northern teacher education program
- Transfer to Northlands College
- And impact on northern teacher recruitment and retention
- Teachers
- Student/teacher ratio and classroom capacity
- Trucking industry
- Drivers, mandatory training
- Utilities
- Rate increases and clients in arrears
- Wascana Park and Wascana Centre Authority
- Commercial developments in park
- Commercial developments in park, Canadian National Institute for the Blind, partnership with Brandt Developments
- Auditor review, project on hold pending
- Governance structure and commercial developments
- Water
- Supply, impact of climate change
- Water Security Agency
- Delays in handling drainage disputes
- And enforcement of court decision
- Watersheds
- Watershed associations, accountability and freedom of information requests
- Workplaces
- Injuries and fatalities, reduction efforts
- Question period [Session 4]
- Agriculture, programs
- Business risk management programs
- AgriRecovery, access for farmers and declaration of disaster event
- Alcohol
- Warehousing and distribution of specialty products
- Bridges
- Prince Albert, second bridge
- Budget, 2020-21
- COVID-19 pandemic, budget measures
- COVID-19 pandemic, disease prevention and economic stimulus
- COVID-19 pandemic, impact on economic assumptions
- COVID-19 pandemic, impact on long-term forecasts
- COVID-19 pandemic, long-term forecasts and government supports
- COVID-19 pandemic, responsiveness
- Economic assumptions, impact of COVID-19 pandemic and oil price collapse
- Business
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Closure of non-essential services and support for small business
- Small businesses
- Saskatchewan small business emergency payment program
- Community-based organizations
- Funding stability and need for multi-year investment
- Construction industry
- Services, provincial sales tax exemption, eliminated
- Coroners
- Coroner's inquest, Samwel Uko
- And support for a suicide prevention strategy
- COVID-19 pandemic, government response
- Areas of focus
- Restrictions and resources
- Health and economic impacts, preparations
- Appointment of bipartisan committee
- Mortgage and rent deferrals, personal and commercial, government supports
- Crops
- Grain
- Drying
- Carbon tax costs and request for relief
- Crown corporations
- Privatization
- During economic uncertainty
- Diabetes
- Medical supplies, coverage of
- Diagnostic imaging
- Two-for-one private-pay model
- Canada Health Transfer, implications for
- Wait times, and surgical wait times
- Domestic violence
- Abusive behaviour, disclosure process
- Implementation and development of regulations
- Drug and alcohol abuse
- Addictions services
- Staff and treatment spaces
- Crystal meth, increased usage
- Impact on emergency rooms and increased crime
- Overdoses, increase, government action
- Safe consumption site, Saskatoon, and funding for addictions programs
- Treatment centres, in-patient
- Estevan, St. Joseph's Hospital
- Economy
- Challenges to export economy, and impact of government actions
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Government supports and stimulus funding
- Government record and cost of living
- Education
- COVID-19 pandemic, suspension of in-person classes
- And child care implications
- Staff, educational assistants
- Staff, status of salaries while facilities closed due to pandemic
- Staff, violence against, and increasing classroom complexity
- Education, funding
- And funding for student support staff
- Class size and complexity
- Class size and composition
- Impact on classroom safety
- Resumption of in-classroom learning and support for COVID-19 pandemic adjustments
- eHealth Saskatchewan
- Information technology, electronic health records systems
- Security of systems and devices
- Elections
- By-elections, Saskatoon Eastview and Regina Walsh Acres
- Provincial 2020, and government preparedness for COVID-19 pandemic
- Provincial 2020, timing of, conflict with fixed election dates
- Exports
- Market expansion
- Contract with Harper & Associates
- First Nations and Métis Fund Inc.
- Fund management, Westcap Management
- Foster home care
- Foster parents
- Background and safety check policies
- Global Transportation Hub
- Annual report (2018-19), committee review
- Land sales, contract with Colliers International
- Government
- Cabinet committee on Crown structure, transparency and access to information
- Infrastructure maintenance plan
- Procurement
- And opportunities for local tradespeople
- Opportunities for local tradespeople and inclusion of community benefits tendering criteria
- Government financial management
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Economic downturn, impact on future budgets
- Economic downturn and fiscal position
- Impact on growth and future costs
- Investment funds, management
- Access to contracted manager
- Unforeseen circumstances, government planning and resilience
- Health
- COVID-19 pandemic
- First Nations, Métis, and remote communities, increased risk and mitigation efforts
- Government pandemic plan, development, funding
- Government pandemic plan and communications
- Government planning and priorities
- Health care
- COVID-19 pandemic
- High-risk populations and facilities
- Impact on surgical and diagnostic wait times
- System capacity
- Ability to handle outbreaks
- Testing protocols and supplies
- Testing protocols for non-travellers
- Northern Saskatchewan
- Obstetric services, access
- Personal protective equipment
- COVID-19 pandemic, adequacy of supply
- Supply management and lean management initiative
- Procurement, infrastructure, equipment and services, support for local bidders
- Public system, government support
- Health care, funding
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Impact on health budget, contingency planning and fund
- Staffing, facility capacity, and emergency room waits
- Health facilities
- And long-term care homes, staffing and recruitment
- Infrastructure
- Maintenance needs and capital investment
- Highways and roads
- Wollaston Lake road
- Construction, government commitment
- Hospitals
- St. Paul's Hospital, Saskatoon
- Victoria Hospital, Prince Albert, renewal
- Funding model and use of local contractors
- Hospitals, emergency rooms
- Rural closures due to COVID-19 pandemic and pre-existing staffing pressures
- Wait times
- And patient flow initiatives
- Government targets and initiatives
- Public review
- And public review of critical incident
- Housing
- Co-operative housing
- Contract expiry and continuation of rental assistance
- Regina housing market, impact of federal and provincial government policies
- Rental units
- COVID-19 pandemic, rent deferrals and eviction moratorium
- Support for tenants and landlords
- Infrastructure
- COVID-19 pandemic, economic recovery stimulus funding
- Labour force
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Job protection for workers
- Long-term care facilities
- Care standards, independent investigation and government oversight
- Condition of, and protection for staff whistle-blowers
- Condition of, independent investigation and government oversight
- Grenfell, replacement facility
- La Ronge
- And investment in northern health services
- Regina, bed closures, impact on staff and residents
- Regina Pioneer Village, replacement plan
- Staffing, adequacy, and facility oversight
- Staffing, adequacy, and government investments
- Medical personnel
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Travel and self-monitoring
- Directive regarding communications
- Whistle-blower protections
- Mental health facilities
- In-patient treatment, wait times, impact on patient care
- Mental health services
- And addictions services
- Psychiatric services, wait times, and physician recruitment efforts
- And mental health emergency unit wait times
- Access to services and emergency care
- Children and youth
- Services and in-school supports
- System coordination, public inquiry
- Minimum wage
- $15 per hour, increase, impact on economy
- Adequacy and indexation formula
- Northern Saskatchewan
- Municipal advisor position and office, Buffalo Narrows
- Petroleum refineries
- Co-op Refinery Complex, Regina, labour disruption
- Government intervention, call for
- Physicians
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Compensation arrangements, expiration, and retention of rural physicians
- Emergency room doctors and medical specialists, Regina staffing, impact on emergency room waits
- Recruitment and retention
- Police services
- Civilian oversight, improvements
- Population
- Growth
- Infrastructure needs, planning for
- Power plants
- Natural gas-fired, new facility, Moose Jaw
- Project tender short list and support for local contractors
- Public-private partnerships
- Maintenance responsibilities and condition of facilities
- Public welfare
- Income assistance programs
- Saskatchewan income support program
- Rent guarantees and recipient autonomy
- Railways
- CN Rail strike, support for workers and urgent need for service restoration
- Regina bypass
- Construction and design deficiencies
- Environmental assessment and use of provincial materials in construction
- Public-private partnership with Vinci (France)
- Subcontractor payment and liens
- Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation
- AgriStability
- Government support and enhancement
- Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford
- Structural deficiencies, impact on wait times
- Structural deficiencies and project oversight
- Water quality and project oversight
- Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program
- Global Trade and Exhibition Centre, entrepreneur program changes
- Saskatchewan Power Corporation
- Net metering program
- Replacement program, and support for solar industry
- Replacement program, impact on solar industry and customer rates
- Saskatchewan Transportation Company
- Elimination
- And private sector operators
- School boards and divisions
- Autonomy and perceived pressure from Premier
- Schools
- Buses
- Overcrowding and student safety
- Capacity, impact on class size and overcrowding
- Capital projects
- Funding
- Repairs and replacements, funding predictability
- Condition of facilities, government investments
- Schools, new
- Capacity planning and utilization
- Sexual assault
- Victims, counselling services, wait times
- Suicides
- Prevention, government action plan
- Prevention, government action plan and support for private member's bill
- Prevention, government initiatives and need for strategy
- Surgery
- Funding increase, and system-wide needs
- Teachers
- Collective bargaining agreement
- Retention
- Increased classroom complexity, impact
- Telecommunications
- High-speed internet, rural areas
- Trade
- Development, government initiatives and impact of western separation movement
- Valley View Centre, Moose Jaw
- Wascana Park and Wascana Centre Authority
- Commercial developments in park, Canadian National Institute for the Blind, partnership with Brandt Developments
- Water
- Water quality
- And safety of municipal infrastructure
- Women's shelters
- Capacity issues and funding support for second-stage housing
- Quill Lakes region
- Diversion to Last Mountain Lake