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Saskatchewan’s justice minister is staying guarded about a private member’s bill to restrict anti-abortion demonstrations near clinics, and the NDP Opposition is chalking up government reluctance to social conservative views within the Saskatchewan Party.
But Justice Minister and Attorney General Gord Wyant said he’s simply taking his time on a complicated issue that requires careful study. He said the government supports the right of women to get abortion services “without fear of intimidation or harassment.”
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The Saskatchewan NDP is still working to introduce increased minimum fines for organizers of COVID-19 rallies which defy Saskatchewan’s public health order.
Minister of Justice and Attorney General Gord Wyant said on Monday there is no need to establish a mandatory minimum penalty with respect to these infractions. He believes it will not deter individuals from not following health measures, but that people will face consequences for their actions based on the current fining system.
“Public Prosecutions will aggressively prosecute those tickets and we’re confident we will be able to enforce those penalties,” discussed Wyant. “I don’t think putting in a mandatory minimum in place is going to at all deter these individuals from continuing to do what they have been doing.”
By Ryan Young
Apr 15, 2021 10:33 PM
Regina NDP MLA Meara Conway wants the Saskatchewan Party government to scrap a proposed change to The Residential Tenancies Act that she said would make it easier to evict tenants.
The opposition party’s critic for social services said this is the opposite of what the government should be looking to do during a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which she said should be to protect and keep people at home to limit transmission.
Conway mentioned how she learned through conversations with organizations and community members that eviction numbers are steady in the province during the pandemic. She said it’s news that concerns her.
SASKATOON Saskatoon Police Service Chief Troy Cooper says he’s happy to see the province move towards creating additional police oversight. “The Chiefs of Police in Saskatchewan have been lobbying for this to occur for a while now,” Cooper told CTV News in an interview. It its 2021 budget, the Government of Saskatchewan announced it would provide $287,000 to the Public Complaints Commission to develop the Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT). The group would be tasked with looking into situations that involve serious injuries or deaths involving police officers. Cooper says now it’s just a matter of looking at how it’s implemented.
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