Megan Christianson is the candidate for the Buffalo Party of Saskatchewan in the Humboldt-Watrous constituency in the upcoming provincial election on October 28.
Originally from the Nipawin area, Christianson comes from a farming background. She’s now a social worker and currently owns a private counselling business in St. Brieux.
Christianson is familiar with the Humboldt area, calling it a second home. She met her husband at a Humboldt Broncos game. Christianson also attended St. Peter’s College for two years and remains connected to the region.
Affordability
Christianson says the Buffalo Party will be committed to creating jobs in the oil and gas industry. She noted their focus is on the oil and gas industry because that is the sector the Buffalo Party has heard from the most.
She added the Buffalo Party would be negotiating a better deal for the province’s resources along additional drilling for oil.
“This is going to eliminate the debt because we can actually have a way selling the oil that we’re going to drill, at the cost we want to sell it for, right now we’re not able to do that, they don’t have set up that way, it’s just drill and then sell.”
The Buffalo Party would store some oil and then sell it at a more opportune time.
Healthcare
Along with the need for additional healthcare workers, Christianson said a priority should be in place to upgrade the equipment for the facilities.
“We’ve gotten to the point in Humboldt, you can’t get an MRI you have to go down to Saskatoon. You can’t get a CT scan; you have to go to Melfort.”
Christianson said seniors have been neglected with lack of policies for them. One idea the Buffalo Party has is to create a new ministry specifically for seniors.
“We want to establish more options for seniors, they don’t have a lot of options to remain in their homes and then they are ending up in these homecare facilities. I think we need to think outside of the box on that and start creating some more jobs for people that can go home to home that can help support these seniors.”
Christianson added the Buffalo Party would bring back the Saskatchewan Transportation Company (STC).
With more buses in the province, she says this would help seniors attend medical appointments outside of their communities.
Education
When it comes to children’s education, Christianson says the Buffalo Party would like to see parents have an increased role.
She noted they would like to see the removal of the SOGI 123 curriculum in school and public libraries.
“We don’t feel that is conducive to their education and we like to further advocate that sex education would only begin in Grade 6 where children are mature enough to understand those concepts.”
Christianson says that if parents are uncomfortable with their children’s learning and if it’s counterintuitive to their values, they should be allowed to remove their children from that portion of that curriculum.
For more with Christianson and the Buffalo Party, you can listen to the full interview below.