Saskatchewan Party and NDP election promises

Saskatchewan’s provincial election is on Monday. Here’s a look at some of the campaign promises made by the two major parties:

Saskatchewan Party

• Continue withholding federal carbon levy payments to Ottawa on natural gas until the end of 2025.
• Reduce personal income tax rates over four years; a family of four would save $3,400.
• Double the Active Families Benefit to $300 per child per year and the benefit for children with disabilities to $400 a year.
• Direct all school divisions to ban “biological boys” from girls’ change rooms in schools.
• Increase the First-Time Homebuyers Tax Credit to $15,000 from $10,000.
• Reintroduce the Home Renovation Tax Credit, allowing homeowners to claim up to $4,000 in renovation costs on their income taxes; seniors could claim up to $5,000.
• Extend coverage for insulin pumps and diabetes supplies to seniors and young adults.
• Provide a 50 per cent refundable tax credit — up to $10,000 — to help cover the cost of a first fertility treatment.
• Hire 100 new municipal officers and 70 more officers with the Saskatchewan Marshals Service.
• Amend legislation to provide police with more authority to address intoxication, vandalism and disturbances on public property.
• Platform cost of $1.2 billion, with deficits in the first three years and a small surplus in 2027.

NDP

• Pause the 15-cent-a-litre gas tax for six months, saving an average family about $350.
• Remove the provincial sales tax from children’s clothes and ready-to-eat grocery items like rotisserie chickens and granola bars.
• Pass legislation to limit how often and how much landlords can raise rent.
• Repeal the law that requires parental consent when children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns at school.
• Launch a provincewide school nutrition program.
• Build more schools and reduce classroom sizes.
• Hire 800 front-line health-care workers in areas most in need.
• Launch an accountability commission to investigate cost overruns for government projects.
• Scrap the marshals service.
• Hire 100 Mounties and expand detox services.
• Platform cost of $3.5 billion, with small deficits in the first three years and a small surplus in the fourth year.