Flags at the Saskatchewan Legislature were lowered to half-mast after
the Nov. 30 death of Saskatchewan Party MLA Rudi Peters.
The longtime rural politician and farmer was 63, and had been fighting
cancer for 18 months.
Peters was elected the MLA for Battleford-Cut Knife in 1999 after
spending 14 years as a rural municipal councillor and eight years on
the board of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities.
He had announced earlier this year that he would not seek re-election.
Saskatchewan Party leader Elwin Hermanson noted Peters’ desire to serve
the people of the province.
“At a point in his life when many other people might have been thinking
about retirement, Rudi decided to take on a new challenge by entering
provincial politics.”
