Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck says she is troubled about Scott Moe’s choice for Minister of Health.

Moe simply switched the portfolios for Jeremy Cockrill and Everett Hindley. Hindley has been named Minister of Education while Cockrill becomes Minister of Health. Carla Beck says relations between teachers and the government hit an all-time low when Jeremy Cockrill was the Minister of Education. In the statement issued by the NDP Beck says, “Saskatchewan already has the worst rates of healthcare worker retention in Canada, and Cockrill’s confrontational style will make a bad situation worse.”

She also says the Sask. Party has no plan to provide cost-of-living relief until at least 2026, if ever and the Sask. Party’s election platform made no new investments in hospitals or healthcare workers, and she suggests their current budget would lead to cuts in healthcare.

Beck says her party will hold its first in-person caucus meeting tomorrow to develop a strategy as the largest opposition seen in Saskatchewan in two decades.