Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly
Hansard
November 30, 2009
The Speaker: — I recognize the member from The Battlefords.
New Saskatchewan Hospital Requested
Mr. Taylor: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Because of the Sask Party’s mismanagement of Saskatchewan’s finances, Saskatchewan people are seeing the financing of health projects being set aside. While this is happening, the Minister of Health needs to keep a few important things in mind.
A couple of weeks ago I reported to the Legislative Assembly that a rally was held in North Battleford, a rally that was called Shovels Here, New Beginnings, a rally that brought together community leaders, mental health advocates and families, and ordinary people who wanted to raise awareness about the need to get construction started on a new Saskatchewan hospital.
I’ve now received petitions and letters signed by hundreds of residents of the province of Saskatchewan that I would like to deliver to the Minister of Health and the Saskatchewan Party Government of Saskatchewan. The petitions are not in the proper legislative format but state that the petitioners believe that mental health matters, that a new mental health facility is a critical component in the continuum of provincial mental health services. And the petitioners believe that the government of Saskatchewan should proceed with building a new Saskatchewan hospital in North Battleford.
Mr. Speaker, today I will be turning these petitions and letters over to the Minister of Health so that he and his colleagues in government can see that people right across this great province want him to act — want him to act quickly — to get started on this promised and much-needed project. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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