Election 2024: Campaign Roundup - Day 11

Welcome to Day 11 of our Saskatchewan 2024 Campaign Roundup!

With the 2024 SK election underway, we'll be bringing you daily updates on all the policy proclamations, platform promises, and political point-scoring from the campaign trail.

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Campaign Roundup - Day 11:

• A virtual election forum hosted by the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation focused on independent school funding. Saskatchewan Party candidate Jeremy Cockrill (The Battlefords) defended increased funding to independent schools, citing parental choice, while NDP candidate Matt Love (Saskatoon Eastview) opposed it.
  
  
• The Saskatchewan Party promised that it would keep the small business tax rate at 1%, as well as collaborate with the Saskatoon and Saskatchewan Chambers of Commerce to introduce a tax credit aimed at helping small and medium-sized businesses grow and create jobs.
  
  
• Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe touted the success of his government’s small business tax reduction, originally announced during the 2020 election. Moe said there were 17,200 new jobs created in Saskatchewan over the past year and the province’s unemployment rate is the second lowest in the country.
  
  
• Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck released her full platform. Her plan includes suspending the gas tax, removing PST from children's clothing, and allocating billions to healthcare and school infrastructure. Beck also aims to boost the economy with tax rebates, rural investments, and green energy projects.
  
  
• The Saskatchewan Party accused the Saskatchewan NDP of botching their first platform costing and releasing a second one, with even more significant errors.
  
  
• Residents at the Broadway Terrace seniors complex in Regina expressed concerns about their ability to vote due to the absence of a polling station on-site. Elections Saskatchewan acknowledged that Broadway Terrace was missed in their polling station planning but assured residents that help would be provided for mail-in voting and arrangements for those unable to travel to the polls.

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