REGINA — Opposition New Democrats are back to accusing the Sask Party government of cronyism with board appointments at the Saskatchewan Health Authority.
NDP Health Critic Meara Conway accused the government Wednesday of having stacked the board and senior leadership of the Saskatchewan Health Authority with their political loyalists and political operatives.
The party issued a news release listing about a half-dozen Sask Party supporters now in roles on the board or in the leadership of the SHA. They noted Arlene Wiks, chair of the SHA board, had worked on the campaign of former Health Minister Paul Merriman and regularly donated to the Sask. Party going back to 2013; that vice-chair Tyler Bragg had worked on the campaign of the former Health Minister Everett Hindley; and that former p