Saskatchewan reduces its funding to new Ukrainian arrivals

Despite the war that still rages in Ukraine, the Saskatchewanese government reduces its financing of establishment services to Ukrainian refugees. This drop, which comes into force on Thursday, is justified by a decrease in demand for services, according to the province.

This decision by the Saskatchewanese party was announced in the provincial budget published last March. The province claims that this reduction in financial aid in the Saskatchewan section of the Ukrainian Congress (CUC), which supports requests for establishment services, will allow us to return to a normal funding rate.

The budget for establishment services to the Ukrainians had increased sharply due to the growing number of Ukrainians who had fled their country after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

This is a reduction that reflects the fact that fewer people use the servicesexplains the Minister of Immigration and Finance, Jim Reiter. Ukrainian refugees are also invited to use all the installation services to which other groups also use.

In all, the CUC In Saskatchewan will have $ 500,000 less to carry out its activities, but the minister assures that no service has been deleted. Five full -time positions and a part -time position were however abolished.

The president of CUC In Saskatchewan, Elena Krueger, admits that the number of Ukrainians arriving in the province was falling. She is still surprise by the government’s decision.

It is however disappointing to note that at a time when Russia continues to bomb Ukraine daily and when Ukrainian men, women and children are killed, funding for the school services necessary for those who fled the war is reducedshe asserts.

Decision criticized by the NPD

Saskatchewan’s new Democratic Party (NPD) has pointed out the decision of the provincial government which he deems morally and economically bad.

The war of [Vladimir] Putin rages and Scott Moe himself declared in March that his government was standing alongside Ukraine and that he would welcome more people displaced by this devastating invasion, but it is clear that her actions tell a completely different storylaunches the neo-democrat Keith Jorgenson.

The NPD Ensures that the needs are still present, even if fewer Ukrainians arrive in Saskatchewan.

My comparison is that when my wife and I stopped having children, we strangely continued to go shoppingsays Keith Jorgenson. It is not because people have ceased to arrive that the work of installation and support stoppedhe believes.

Wednesday, the NPD introduced a bill to permanently recognize the month of September as a month of the Ukrainian heritage. The Saskatchewanese party has not yet indicated publicly if he was going to support the bill.

With information from Darla Ponace