What does the Sask. Opposition have in store for the fall sitting?

Well, it's that time of year. The weather is turning, and though it's getting colder outside, the debate is soon to heat up inside the Saskatchewan legislature. The new sitting starts next week. The question is, will we see anything new from the government and opposition, or is it more of the same? To answer that, we've assembled our assembly watchers, Murray Madrigus, a political columnist, CBC reporter Alexander Kwan, covers the legislature for us here at CBC Saskatchewan. And Alex, I know your suit is probably pressed and ready, or this is a warning to you to get that in order. Oh, it's already done. I have my haircut. I got my ties picked out. I'm ready to go. You're looking great. That's more than Murray and I can say back in our days, right? I washed my house coat. What are we expecting this fall? It's been a while. It's been 166 days since the politicians have sat in the legislature. So, uh, it'll, you know, I'm not necessarily expecting anything major to, to, to start, but there's also, I think a lot of questions about what this government's priorities are going to be during this fall sitting. Uh, we, unlike previous, uh, sittings, uh, we haven't actually gotten a real hint from the government. Sometimes the premier will come and do a press conference a couple of days before. Yeah. Or, or they'll tease out what they're planning to announce in the, in the, the weeks ahead of the, the sitting that hasn't happened. And all we've heard from Premier Scott Moe is that it's going to be something, and especially in the throne speech, they're going to focus on something that the provinces is strong and ready in comparison to other provinces in the world. So that is a message I've heard repeatedly from Moe and from other provincial ministers. But I do want to kind of frame it in during the time that we haven't had a legislature sitting, we have had a bunch of big announcements. We've had the AI data center being quadrupled in power demands. We've had the two nuclear power generation announcements that are planned for the province. So there's been a lot of announcements during this time that haven't been actually debated in the legislature. So I expect them to be big topics that will come up. And as for the NDP, I mean, as we know, they are bringing up the Kevin Weidmark plane issue repeatedly. I expect them to bring that up. And of course, they just unveiled their new health plan. And so health care, as always, is going to be a big topic when the legislature resumes. Nuri, does the throne speech still matter? And what would you hope to hear from the lieutenant governor? Well, I hope I hear nothing in the throne speech. And here's my thought process. Three of the last four, maybe four of the last five throne speeches, starts of the session, had revolved around some big dramatic thing, whether it's Bill 137, whether it was a couple of years ago, the whole post-election issue or mid-election issue about change rooms and kids and the transgender issue, all these distracting issues that really didn't get to the point of what we need to be accomplishing in Saskatchewan right now, which unfortunately is cost of living, which unfortunately is health care, which unfortunately is a few other things that the government doesn't seem to be addressing. Now, evidently, the NDP tried this week to address the health care thing, and it was a failure to launch. They had yet another policy on health care that wasn't exactly exciting. It sounds like there was actually some kind of good ideas with sort of the hub-and-spoke notion of having health care providers through communities and traveling less to get to basic services. They have some great issues to criticize. If six of the ten of us don't have family doctors, that's a great issue. But they're far better at criticizing than they are coming up with ideas that are better. And I think the government senses that. They saw that proposal that the NDP put forward. It was bad. It was sloppy. It wasn't AI, I don't think, but it was just sloppy to include the notes of how you're going to manipulate the media or sell it to the media within the document.