The Sask. Party government’s 2025-26 provincial budget was passed in the Legislature today, but not before over an hour of debate regarding its effectiveness.

NDP Leader Carla Beck stated that the budget, announced last week, ignores the harsh realities of tariffs from both the Unites States and China, as it doesn’t include a contingency plan.

This is much unlike the governments of Alberta, B.C., and Nova Scotia, who have included multimillion dollar tariff contingency plans in their budgets with deficits to match.

The budget passed 32-22, but Beck had the opportunity to share her party’s thoughts on the document during Question Period.

“Saskatchewan people deserve a real budget that addresses the real challenges that we’re facing today, not a make-believe fairytale.”

Premier Scott Moe says his budget provides billions of dollars in affordability measures to Saskatchewan residents, record health, education, and agriculture spending, while also maintaining a surplus.

“The NDP across Canada have delivered budgets that are not balanced. In fact, there is not one other balances budget in the nation of Canada that has been introduced today. We go to NDP British Columbia; almost an $11 billion deficit, versus a surplus in the province of Saskatchewan.”

Beck says the $12 million means nothing when the province will lose $432 million in annual revenue from scrapping the carbon tax.