POLL: Province says Broten is politicizing flood plain issue
In the face of mounting criticism of its failure to send MLAs to the flood plain meeting in Prince Albert last week, the Saskatchewan Government is accusing opposition NDP leader Cam Broten of “elevating it into a political issue.”
On March 26, the City of Prince Albert held a flood plain issues meeting, at which the executive director of the ministry of government relations’ community planning branch, Ralph Leibel, explained the province’s one-in-500 year flood policy to the hundreds of residents that filled East End Community Hall.
The meeting was an opportunity for residents to pose their questions about the policy and its effects on their property to the province. In 2012, the government adopted the one-in-500 year flood regulations into its Statements of Provincial Interest.