Buffalo Party of Saskatchewan Leader Phillip Zajac. (Submitted photo)

By Angela Brown

Online meeting planned

Buffalo Party looking for more members in region

Jan 31, 2023 | 6:10 PM

The relatively new Buffalo Party of Saskatchewan plans to have a number of meetings coming up to start getting organized before the 2024 provincial election.

The party will have an online Zoom regional planning meeting for the northwest area, which includes the Battlefords constituency, at 7 p.m. on Feb. 10, 2023.

The region also includes Lloydminster, Athabasca, Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan Rivers, Cut Knife-Turtleford, Rosthern-Shellbrook, Biggar-Sask Valley, and Kindersley constituencies.

People can view the meeting by emailing the Buffalo Party, connect to its live video on its Facebook Page or via Twitter.

The organization said the purpose of this meeting is to determine the constituencies that have interested members, “to focus our attention first on, and where to schedule our first townhalls in the region.”

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Party Leader Phillip Zajac told battlefordsNOW while it is still early, the party wants to get started planning ahead for next year’s election as soon as possible.

“We’re starting to do these Zoom meetings to start to build up interest in the Buffalo Party in different parts of the province,” he said.

Zajac hopes to increase support for the party.

“I would say the Buffalo Party is the foundation of people in Saskatchewan,” he said. “None of us are politicians. We are just people who love our province, and want to make it a better place to live for everybody.”

Zajac said he believes the party has shown that it has the best interests of the people in the province at heart.

“We had a policy convention last year. All of the policies were submitted by members; they were not submitted by me or the board.”

The party received 173 policies, and ended up passing 137 of them that are all available on its website .

Zajac said the party hopes to be a stronger voice at the table for Saskatchewan.

“We continue to see that Ottawa does not care about Saskatchewan, and its people,” he said. “They keep thinking of more ways to especially hurt small-town Saskatchewan. The people here are realizing that somebody needs to be a strong voice for them, to actually do something. I think that we are already doing that.”

Zajac said each region in the province has unique issues that need to be addressed.

“In the northwest we have lots of farming and cattle,” he said. “I think we need to make it easier for people there to do business. It’s difficult to move cattle between Alberta and Saskatchewan – we need to make that easier. And, with the new nitrogen levels suggestions that the [federal] government’s coming out with, they make no sense for our farmers. We just need to say: If you want to do something as a federal government go ahead and do it, but we don’t have to do it here. If it doesn’t make sense for the people of Saskatchewan, then we are not going to do what they want us to do.”

Zajac said while it is fairly far away from the next provincial election cycle, it will come quickly.

“We need to start doing the ground work to get candidates in place,” he said. “We just want to be well prepared.”

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Angela.Brown@pattisonmedia.com

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