MLA Weedmark gives update to Chamber members before heading into spring session
March 2, 2026, 11:53 am
Nicole Taylor, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
At the Moosomin Chamber of Commerce meeting on Tuesday, Moosomin-Montmartre MLA Kevin Weedmark gave an update to Chamber members on some of the things he has been doing before heading into spring session, which starts this week.
Budget and committee work
“I’m on quite a few committees, so there has been a lot of committee work lately,” he said. “I’m on something called the Board of Internal Economy that runs the budgets for all of the independent officers for Elections Saskatchewan, for instance, the ombudsman’s office, the Legislative Assembly service, and we’ve actually gone through our whole budget process, and you’ll be happy to know we kept all of our agencies to a six per cent reduction in costs this year compared to last year.
“So it was a tough budget this year, but we’ve been able to save quite a bit just with those agencies themselves. And I think we’ll see something similar across government. We’ll see a little bit of a reduction try to make things a little bit easier on taxpayers. That’s going to keep me very busy.”
Provincial economic development, resources and trade
“Sort of the theme of this Chamber meeting today, we’re going to be talking a little bit about economic development. (EDO) Jeff (Cole) is going to make a presentation here, and Mayor Murray Gray will speak a little bit about it. And you know, across the province, I’ve been very fortunate to be involved in a lot of discussions on some of the mines coming in. Let’s just put it this way—there’s a lot of exciting stuff coming for Saskatchewan,” he said.
“We’ve seen a lot of announcements in the last few weeks regarding the alumina find in northeastern Saskatchewan, we have one new uranium mine just approved, and there’s a couple others in the works. We have three companies with very sustainable uranium operations coming up.
“Myself and a couple of colleagues just spent a little bit of time over in the UK. We spent some time in London and Edinburgh, and one of the days of that trip was focused on the economic development side of things. Canola is one of our biggest exports to the UK, uranium has been growing, and after this trip our uranium exports to the UK are probably going to double in this next year.
There’s an awful lot of growth in the nuclear industry in Europe and in the UK specifically. And we had some discussions there, and there’s been a couple of contracts on these.
“We’ll see a lot more Saskatchewan exports to the UK. Our exports to the UK in the last two years have increased quite substantially, and we’re probably going to see quite a bit more of that.”
Lots of commitments
Weedmark says one of the toughest parts of his job as MLA is trying to be in a lot of places all the time.
“The toughest part of my job is always trying to figure out where I’m going to be when on a typical weekend you’ve got an event you’re being asked to be at one day in Saskatoon, one in Rocanville, one in Moosomin, one in Indian Head, one in Montmartre, but every day is fun and every day is interesting.”
Health care
He also talked a bit about health care.
“Right now, on the on the health care front, there’s a lot of investment going into trying to bulk up some of the major centres that have quite a bit of health care, trying to provide some extra support so that the areas that have a stable group of doctors have extra support.
“So tomorrow, myself and the premier and Jeremy Cockrill will be at the Nest Health Centre in Regina where our government is providing funding. You’ve got a group of doctors there. They’ve taken over YWCA in downtown Regina, and we’re providing about $400,000 a year so they can hire some extra staff, physiotherapists, a few people who are just sort of aligned professions.
“And there’s going to be an announcement coming soon for Moosomin—they’re going to be working with the Family Practice Centre here, and there will be little bit north of $700,000 a year here for them to hire some additional staff, some additional folks to round up their practice a little bit.”
Moosomin on the map
“Moosomin is very fortunate to have the services it does,” added Weedmark. “I’ve got a meeting with a health care professional next week in Regina who has expressed interest and approaching me about coming to work in this area.
And it’s great to see that where we’re going in the province, people have heard about Moosomin because of some of the big successful things we’ve done, they’ve heard about some of the economic development stuff. They heard about the fireworks.
“So Moosomin really punches above its weight, and that really helps with attracting health care professionals and businesses.”
