Saskatchewan NDP’s Beck holds first caucus meeting after election, outlines plans

Saskatchewan Opposition NDP Leader Carla Beck says she wants to beryllium to residents her enactment is the authorities successful waiting arsenic she heads into the incoming legislative session.

Beck held her archetypal caucus gathering with 27 members, astir treble than what she had earlier the Oct. 28 predetermination but abbreviated of the 31 required to signifier a bulk successful the 61-seat legislature.

She says her priorities volition beryllium wellness attraction and cost-of-living issues.

Beck says radical request affordability assistance close present and volition property Premier Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party authorities to chopped the state taxation and the provincial income taxation connected children’s covering and immoderate market items.

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Beck’s NDP is Saskatchewan’s largest Opposition successful astir 2 decades aft sweeping Regina and winning each but 1 spot successful Saskatoon.

The Saskatchewan Party won 34 seats, retaining its clasp connected each of the agrarian ridings and smaller cities.