Moe tours parts of Moosomin-Montmartre constituency on Thursday
September 29, 2025, 8:53 am
Nicole Taylor, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Premier Scott Moe toured the Moosomin-Montmartre constituency along with Moosomin-Montmarte MLA Kevin Weedmark on Thursday, with stops in Grenfell and Whitewood, wrapping up with the grand opening of the water treatment plant in Moosomin.
In Grenfell, Moe met with Mayor Mark Steininger and members of the Grenfell Health Care Foundation, and visited the construction site of the new 33-bed long-term care facility. He also met with Tyler Thomlinson and his family at the site of a new pharmacy Thomlinson is building.
In Whitewood he met with Dr. Cara Fallis, who is the first physician to complete her medical residency with the Southeast Family Medicine Residency Program. Moe and Fallis discussed issues in rural health care.
The tour wrapped up with Moe attending the grand opening of Moosomin’s new water treatment plant. Moe said a few words at the event and helped cut the ribbon.
The World-Spectator interviewed Moe after the tour. Following are his comments, along with some comments from MLA Weedmark as well.
What is your impression of the constituency since you were last here?
It’s growing again. Harvest is coming off and optimism is in the air for sure, which is exactly as it was the last time I was here.
What makes this province so great is what you see on full display here in Moosomin or any other community across the province—people coming together to build things. Building a better community, a safer community, a bigger community, and building for the future, for their children, their grandchildren so that they can have the same opportunities we’ve had. It’s great to be back.
Can you tell us about your stops in Grenfell and Whitewood?
Both were somewhat healthcare related stops. We were looking at the site where they are building the long-term care home (in Grenfell) that’s been a long time coming. Some might say too long, and I might be among them. It’s good to see that construction starting.
I had the opportunity to meet the foundation and just say thank you for the work that they do, again in building the community of Grenfell for the future.
(In Whitewood) I talked to a local physician, coming from Moosomin actually, to Whitewood as well about some of the opportunities we have to expand and enhance rural healthcare by working together through communities. This is still a work in progress I would say, because we used to play hockey against them. Now we’re coming together to build not only our community, but our region, and build all of the communities in the area. I see that happening across Saskatchewan as well. There still is the odd hockey conversation though!
What were some of the other things you saw today?
That’s the two stops we made on the way out, I’ll end up in Saskatoon tonight, there’s a 50th anniversary for VIDO in Saskatoon as well, so we’re making our way across the province in many ways. But it’s great to get out into the southeastern side of the province for the day today, and talk to some of the people who are doing some incredible work as a city, whether it’s building a water plant or a long-term care facility. It’s all such important infrastructure, and the provincial government is honoured to be a part of it, but it doesn’t happen without the initiative of locals, whether it’s a long-term care facility, or a water treatment facility here in Moosomin. It doesn’t happen without the initiative of locals, and it’s an honour for us to participate as well.
The water treatment plant expansion is one of several major infrastructure projects in the area recently that the provincial government has contributed to. We are also seeing a significant investment in the Grenfell long-term care home. Why is the government investing so much in this area?
It’s not just this area, we are prioritizing the province in many ways. Whether it be through shared infrastructure funding, like the ICIP program, whether it be in healthcare funding, or whether it be in some of our larger urban centres where we’re talking about the community safety, like the increase in police officers for example, or mental health and addiction supports.
So things are a little bit different in different communities across the province, but it’s important for us to rely on our representatives like (MLA) Kevin Weedmark, to continue to have a strong voice as they do at the caucus table to address all the challenges. Some are economic, like canola for example. Some are infrastructure-related, like funding for the water plant or long-term care facility. Others are service-related—we had a discussion on healthcare services in Whitewood as well. So there are a lot of things happening, all at the same time, but that’s what we’re here to do, is to support them all.
What have you learned as you travelled around the constituency today?
I don’t think I learned this but it was re-emphasized to me, the importance of healthcare in rural Saskatchewan. Whether it be the delivery of primary healthcare services or a long-term care facility, I have been through that conversation as a community member prior to ever being elected in 2011, being a volunteer on similar types of initiatives, so it was reminded to me again the priority, the focus and the need for access to healthcare services in rural area of the province.
The communities we are in, including Moosomin, aren’t small rural communities in my frame, they are rural communities that know and need to have access to a healthcare provider, whether it’s a physician, a nurse practitioner, or even a pharmacist. So I think that is the priority that I am leaving with.
I’ve know this, but sometimes you get busy doing work, and it has re-prioritized that it is about healthcare in rural Saskatchewan. Similar to this water plant, it’s not built for today, it’s built for the future of tomorrow, which is the not-so-sexy infrastructure, but so very necessary in every community. It’s not built for today, it’s built to secure that future for the generations that are after me.
MLA Weedmark, what are your thoughts on this?
I think the province is investing in every constituency around the province, but today highlighted a few of those investments that are important to rural communities.
It’s not the most exciting thing, but it is something that people rely on every day. To see the investment that we’ve had in the highways around here, the investment in the long-term care facility in Grenfell, to see the investment in the residency program that led to Dr. Cara Fallis serving this area. All of those are important investments and I think our provincial government is working right around the province to make those investments and build a future for all of these rural communities.
It’s wonderful to bring the premier out to actually see some of the things that are happening here, to actually see the work going on, like at the Grenfell long-term care home and to actually meet some of the folks that are doing that work. In Grenfell we actually met with a local business person who is investing in his community. He is building a new building for his pharmacy in Grenfell and part of the reason that pharmacy can expand is the new nursing home.
It’s wonderful to be able to share that and for the premier to come and see some of these progressive communities and see some of those investment that the province is making that’s going to help build a future of all of these communities.
Something like that investment in the new long-term care home, that’s not only an investment in healthcare for the region, it’s not only going to mean that people get their health care closer to home, it’s also a vote of confidence in the future for the community. Every one of these investments makes a huge difference.
