The provincial NDP’s Economy Critic is calling on the Sask Party government to make a jobs plan that addresses Saskatchewan’s dismal one per cent growth in full-time jobs over the last decade. According to Statistics Canada, in the past decade, Saskatchewan has trailed every province other than Newfoundland and Labrador in terms of full-time job growth. Aleana Young notes that Statistics Canad’s numbers indicate from September of 2012 to this past September, nationally jobs grew by 12.61 per cent and in Saskatchewan by 1.02 per cent, which is a total of 4,700 new full time jobs in a decade.

Manitoba’s full time job growth was 7.4 per cent with 37,400 new jobs and Alberta’s was 5.42 per cent with 98,500 jobs. At the top of the list was British Columbia at almost 21 per cent. Young notes the Throne Speech contained no jobs plan and eliminated hundreds of full time jobs through privatizing provincial liquor stores.