Resource prices, health care among issues in Cut Knife-Turtleford
Tumbling oil prices have made their presence particularly felt in west-central Saskatchewan, an issue being raised with the candidates for Cut Knife-Turtleford during the provincial election campaign.
But the incumbent MLA, the Saskatchewan Party’s Larry Doke, said there’s positive news in the region as well.
“We’ve had some pretty good results in the Edam/Vawn area with Husky and Serafina oil carrying on with their capital projects, with the SAGD (steam-assisted gravity drainage) projects,” Doke said in an interview during the final week of campaigning, “so we’ve had good interest over there and have retained some jobs and some new jobs over here.”
Doke also touted strong cattle and grain prices. He said during his meetings with constituents, people are raising the issues of highways and health care, “not a lot, but more so very appreciative of the premier and the direction the party is going by just keeping things simple for this election, no grandiose ideas, enhancing programs that we’ve got underway and just steady as we go.”