Ambitious Legislative Agenda Outlined in Premier Wall's Last Throne Speech

Released on October 25, 2017

• Fulfill its commitment to provide individualized funding to children under six with Autism Spectrum Disorder;
• Improve the rate of organ donation in the province through a new program led by donor physicians;
• Continue reducing health care administration costs through the consolidation of the province’s 12 regional health authorities into a single Saskatchewan Health Authority;
• Introduce legislation that will protect the right to school choice by invoking the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms;
• Introduce legislation to facilitate the federal government’s legalization of the use of non-medical marijuana, even though the province continues to have concerns about the federal government’s rushed timetable;
• Work with municipalities to allow ride sharing-services like Uber and Lyft to operate in Saskatchewan;
• Amend The Privacy Act to allow greater protection against the unauthorized electronic distribution of intimate images;
• Create a process to improve the disclosure of decisions made by the Office of Residential Tenancies (Rentalsman’s Office) to better protect the rights of both tenants and landlords;
• Repeal the provisions of Bill 40 that allow for the sale of a partial equity position in a Crown Corporation;
• Continue to improve internet and cellular coverage throughout rural Saskatchewan;
• Consider a range of retaliatory trade measures that could be implemented in response to Alberta’s beer rebate program that discriminates against Saskatchewan brewers;
• Focus Saskatchewan’s business tax reductions on small businesses by returning the corporate tax rate to 12 per cent – the same as other western provinces – and raising the small business income threshold to $600,000, the highest in Canada;
• Introduce an Agriculture Value Added New Growth Incentive to attract more investment;
• Introduce further actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while continuing to oppose the imposition of a carbon tax in Saskatchewan, including through a legal challenge if necessary;
• Create a new provincial park in the Porcupine Hills, southeast of Hudson Bay; and
• Introduce a new Seniors Education Property Tax Deferral Program that will give seniors with household incomes under $70,000 the option to defer the education portion of property tax on their homes.