REGINA – The budget appropriations bill has passed the Legislative Assembly on Monday, and opposition New Democrats have responded by dumping the budget document into a woodchipper.
Opposition MLAs Aleana Young, Sally Housser and Hugh Gordon staged the media event outside their party offices at Tommy Douglas House in Regina.
There, they dumped several 2026 Budget documents into the wood chipper, which tore up and spat out the mounds of paper onto the parking lot.
The scene was reminiscent of Finance critic Trent Wotherspoon's media event in 2025 when he put that year's budget document into a shredder.
The MLAs on Wednesday said a shredder wasn't enough for this year's documents, which the NDP have repeated referred to this session as a "bad news budget" with a deficit of $819 million.
In recent days the NDP have stepped up their attacks, characterizing the government's plan to extend coal generation as costing $26 billion.
The government has accused the NDP of mischaracterizing the cost of their plan, pointing to the true capital cost being $2.6 billion.
In speaking to reporters Young noted the legislative session is ending this Thursday, May 14. She said the Sask Party was "desperate to get out of the Legislature, desperate to get away from scrutiny of the drip, drip, drip of billions of dollars of scandals."
Young adds "we're going to take this show on the road." She said they plan meetings with municipalities, Indigenous communities, industry and workers, "talking about the impact Scott Moe and the Sask Party's choices are having on affordability, are having on health care, and when it comes to the $26 billion coal catastrophe are having on the future of investment, on economic security and on cost of living here in Saskatchewan. The work is only going to pick up."
