The following is a list of some of the
petitions that have been presented in the Legislative Assembly by NDP
MLAs:
Preventing Criminals from Profiting from their Crimes
Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your Honourable Legislative Assembly may be pleased to cause the government to enact legislation prohibiting any and all convicted criminals from receiving payment or remuneration for the recounting of their crime, or for any memorabilia connected with the crime. And that the government enact this legislation in time to prevent Colin Thatcher from profiting from his murder of JoAnn Wilson.
Expansion of the Graduate Retention Program
Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your Honourable Legislative Assembly may be pleased to cause the government to immediately expand the Graduate Retention Program to include Masters and Ph.D graduates.
Minimum
Wage
Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your
Honorable Legislative Assembly may be pleased to cause the government
to commit to indexing Saskatchewan minimum wage to ensure that the
standard of living of minimum wage earners is maintained in the face of
cost of living increases.
Child
Care Spaces
Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray
that your Honourable Legislative Assembly may be pleased to cause the
government to immediately add 1000 new child care spaces in Saskatchewan.
Property Tax Relief
Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your Honourable Legislative Assembly may be pleased to cause the government to stop withholding and to provide significant, sustainable, long-term property tax relief to property owners by 2009, through significantly increasing the provincial portion of education funding.
School
Closures
Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your
Honourable Legislative
Assembly may be pleased to cause the government to develop, announce
and implement a plan to address school closures.
Senior's
Drug Plan
Wherefore
your petitioners humbly pray that your Honourable
Legislative Assembly may be pleased to cause the
government to reverse its decision to means test seniors and ensure
that all seniors continue to have access to affordable prescription
drugs.
Student Housing
Wherefore
your petitioners humbly pray that your Honourable
Legislative Assembly may be pleased to cause the government to commit
to aggressively working with partners to expand on-campus and
off-campus housing options for
Saskatchewan’s students.
Tuition Costs
Wherefore
your
petitioners humbly pray that your Honourable
Legislative Assembly may be pleased to cause the
government to commit to addressing the burden placed by high
post-secondary tuition fees on Saskatchewan students.
Saskatoon Station 20 Funding
Wherefore
your petitioners humbly pray that your Honourable
Legislative Assembly may be pleased to cause the
government to immediately restore funding to the Station 20
project.
Early Childhood Development
Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your Honourable Legislative Assembly may be pleased to cause the government, through consultation with the childcare community, to immediately invest in growing the capacity of the early childcare community to enable new childcare spaces, this investment must include: infrastructure funding for new facilities and expansion; funding to significantly increase the number of early childhood diploma and certificate training seats; and, funding to ensure that the sector is able to increase its’ wages and benefits to attract and retain needed personnel.
Public Safety and Security
Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your Honourable Legislative Assembly may be pleased to cause the government, in the interest of the safety and security of Saskatchewan families, residents and communities, to immediately cause the Minister of Corrections, Public Safety and Policing to undertake a thorough consultation with a broad group of stakeholders, including, the policing community, the corrections community, and community agencies, organizations and educators that interface with gangs and understand the risks and challenges that gangs offer our communities.
Prince Albert Pulp Mill
Wherefore
your petitioners humbly pray that your Honourable
Legislative Assembly may be pleased to cause the government to commit
to reopening negotiations with Domtar based on the already negotiated
Memorandum of Understanding so as to see a viable pulp and paper mill
continue in Prince Albert.
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- Premier Brad Wall
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But one does begin to wonder whether Wall and his strategists see running government as much more than a series of well-spun press releases on our somewhat dwindling good economic news, feel-good announcements and glib publicity stunts like Gopher Day. (What’s next? Belly dancers performing behind Finance Minister Rod Gantefoer to emphasize the wild gyrations?) ...And as much fun as Gainer’s appearance truly was, it’s no small irony that it occurred on the day Wall rejected extending session debate to discuss spending cuts stemming from Gantefoer’s mid-year report. -Murray Mandryk, The Leader-Post
