UPDATE: Hundreds protest provincial cuts at MLA’s office
Hundreds of government employees and concerned citizens rallied outside MLA Joe Hargrave’s Prince Albert office early this afternoon to protest the many spending cuts included in the recent provincial budget.
Protesters carried signs and images of Premier Brad Wall, Hargrave and other Saskatchewan Party ministers. A mock jailhouse was towed to the protest site with caricatures of Wall and his cabinet members locked up inside, and three symbolic coffins erected in front of the office bore the phrases “collective bargaining in Sask.,” “workers rights & benefits” and “the truth about the GTH land deal.”
Barry Nowoselsky, public service vice-president with the Saskatchewan Government and General Employees’ Union (SGEU), spoke at the rally and said he hopes Hargrave takes note of the growing public displeasure towards cuts made by the Sask. Party.
“What he’s doing to libraries, what he’s doing to Crown corporations, what he’s doing to the healthcare system, what he’s doing to the education system is unacceptable to us and we’re here to let him know that,” Nowoselsky told paNOW.