REGINA - The Buffalo Party of Saskatchewan held their first media event since the launch of the provincial election campaign.
Leader Phillip Zajac met with reporters on the steps of the provincial legislature to lay out a few key planks of the party’s platform.
One of them is restoring the Saskatchewan Transportation Company or STC.
STC was shut down by the Sask Party government in 2017 as a cost-cutting measure. The government felt the costs of subsidizing the provincial bus system were too much.
Zajac believes the STC was extremely helpful in getting seniors to other communities for family visits or for medical appointments.
“Some seniors are paying two hundred or more dollars for a cab to get to a medical appointment, they simply cannot afford that,” Zajac says.
The Buffalo Party would restore the STC under a new government ministry, the Ministry of Seniors and Veterans Affairs. Zajac says seniors helped build this province into what it is today, and they deserve better access to safe, reliable transportation.
He says these would be smaller buses which would accommodate about 30-40 people, they are more fuel efficient than the full-sized buses used by the STC in the past, and they would offer another way for people to ship products and parcels within the province.
Zajac says the new STC would have a strong business model, and be run like a business instead of a government entity.
Zajac promises more of the Buffalo Party platform to be released in the coming days.
