NDP Leader Ryan Meili met with out of work trade workers Monday.
Meili is joining them in calling for the current provincial government to introduce a community benefits agreement.
The agreement would ensure trade workers in Saskatchewan would work on Saskatchewan infrastructure projects.
Meili during Question Period Monday afternoon called on the government for giving contracts for infrastructure projects to out-of-province companies.
Meili says the government’s procurement model is not only holding workers back but the entire province.
A journeyman pipefitter from Regina, Troy Knipple says it’s frustrating to see big projects move forward in the province while local workers can’t find work on them.
NDP Calling on the Government to Hire Saskatchewan Workers
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The Candian government wants the country’s banks to identify, in customers’ bank statements when they receive the carbon rebate, that it is labelled as such.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the lack of a clear identifier is contributing to confusion about carbon price rebates, so he is going to change the law if he has to in order to force the big banks to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits.
The first rebate deposits in 2022 were labelled very generically, which meant recipients had no idea why they were getting the money.
T-D and B-MO have adopted the government’s requested “CdaCarbonRebate” entry, R-B-C and Scotiabank say they couldn’t make the change in time for the rollout, and C-I-B-C is still calling it “Deposit Canada.”