The Saskatchewan Party government is squandering the boom, the official opposition is saying.
Opposition leader Carla Beck and finance critic Trent Wotherspoon reacted to Tuesday’s announcement of the province’s financial picture at mid-year looking a little bit better than it did in the first quarter.
Beck said that families are struggling to put food on the table while doctors and nurses are leaving the province in droves.
“Other premiers are taking action to address challenges in healthcare and affordability while Scott Moe makes Saskatchewan people pay for his bad decisions and unbalanced budgets,” Beck said in a media release.
The mid-year financial update from the province said that the province has a billion dollars from resource revenue that is unbudgeted.
“Hardworking families are paying through the nose for the basics and rather than invest these historic windfall resource revenues wisely, the Sask. Party is raising taxes and hiking power and energy bills,” said Wotherspoon in the release.
The NDP have asked the provincial government to address the affordability crisis through investigating grocery and meat prices, expanding the $500 affordability cheques for parents with children, creating a consumer advocate for fair and reliable utilities, rolling back power and energy rate increases and PST expansion, and suspending the provincial gas tax.
