The provincial election is just a couple of weeks away with candidates looking to make their case, including here in the southeast.
In the Cannington constituency, Dianne Twietmeyer is running for the Saskatchewan NDP.
She's hoping to break into an area that's not traditionally favoured by her party in order to help those southeast residents.
"It's no secret that Cannington is a traditionally very conservative riding, considered in fact to be a safe seat for the Saskatchewan Party, but I think the events of the last few years with cuts back to health and education, sky-high rents, and then the PST being put on children's clothing and groceries and insurance premiums, I think that there are going to be people who change their minds."
"I want those people as well as the main loyal NDP voters that have always held true to the values of the party, the values of caring and sharing, and not leaving anyone behind. I want all of these people to know that their voices will be heard and I want to be the person that they put their trust in."
Twietmeyer says that healthcare, the cost of fuel, and the carbon tax are big issues affecting people and their pocketbooks in the Cannington area.
For healthcare, she believes that the Saskatchewan NDP hold the solution.
"There were few cuts made to healthcare funding and this is why we have such long waits for people to get the treatment that they need. We have lost staff to other provinces or to other countries and by putting that money back into health care, we can keep the trained personnel that we need, and we can hire more and we can train more and we won't have to spend more to do it."
Twietmeyer says that the province would be in a better place financially under the Saskatchewan NDP.
"This province ought to be rolling in clover, but instead it's in debt because the billions that were made from the boom have been squandered through terrible mismanagement and corruption. Just by using good fiscal management and cutting areas of waste, the money is already there. No taxes would have to be raised to put that money back into healthcare and education."
"There's no reason for the province to be in debt, and so as soon as the NDP government takes over and starts making the necessary cuts, they can start addressing the debt."
In the Cannington area, Twietmeyer says that she's seeing residents worry about the Carbon Tax and highways, which she feels a Saskatchewan NDP government could help with.
In working with the other levels of government she points to a letter sent out by party leader Carla Beck focusing on what she'd work with the federal government on.
"Among these are increased federal health healthcare funding to reduce waits, removing natural resources from the equalization formula, continuing tariffs on Chinese steel products to protect jobs here, delivery on the promised federal-provincial childcare spaces, more RCMP offices throughout the Saskatchewan communities so that we can address crime, honoring obligations to First Nations and native people, and here's a good one for the rural communities, federal funding of broadband connectivity and improved cell phone coverage."
TwietMeyer believes that a Saskatchewan NDP government would be a great way to grow the province and she encourages people to vote for change.
"Voting for the status quo just doesn't have to be the thing this time. If you've always voted Conservative or Saskatchewan party, think about it and think about how things have not been faring well for you in the last few years and how a change of government, with an emphasis on you, the people could be just what you need."