Saskatchewan organizations outline wish list ahead of the provincial budget
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The Sask. Party government is set to announce the provincial budget Wednesday and many organizations weighed in on what they'd like to see.
Saskatchewan’s provincial budget is set to be announced Wednesday at the legislature and several organizations have outlined what they’d like to see.
The Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce is hoping for more focus on small and medium sized businesses, saying those businesses create a large portion of Saskatchewan’s GDP, payrolls and trade.
“According to the Canadian Chamber, 98 per cent of businesses in our country and province qualify as small businesses with micro firms by far the most common. This underscores the need to develop a business climate and regulatory environment that boosts the resilience of small businesses. Put simply, the survival of small business is a big issue for our city and province,” the chamber said in a February release.
The chamber listed several measures it would like to see implemented that it has pushed for in the past year:
“We believe these measures would contribute significantly to the economic prosperity of Saskatchewan and advance the government’s growth plan.”
CUPE also weighed in on what it would like to see come from the upcoming budget, with its focus on Saskatchewan workers.
“This budget needs a plan to create good jobs, bigger paycheques, to protect public services, fix the health care crisis and clean up the mess in education,” said Kent Peterson, president of CUPE Saskatchewan. “Failing to do so sends a clear message — Scott Moe doesn’t care about workers and needs to be fired.”
The union said there are 31,000 members of CUPE in the province working in public services like health care, education and municipal sectors and claimed that those workers were adversely affected by government underfunding and mismanagement.
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