REGINA — Flags at the Saskatchewan legislature are at half-mast after the July 30 death of former agriculture minister Lyle Stewart.
Stewart was 73 and died after a 10-year battle with prostate cancer.
Premier Scott Moe described Stewart as a good friend and colleague.
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“Lyle was a man of few words, which is unusual for a politician, but you always knew where he stood,” Moe said in a social media post announcing Stewart’s death.
“His quiet strength and dedication to the people he served were an example to all of us who served with him.”
Stewart was first elected in 1999 in Thunder Creek, which became Lumsden-Morse in 2016. He served in cabinet as enterprise and innovation minister for a time after the Saskatchewan Party was elected in 2007.
He was appointed agriculture minister in 2012, a job he held until he resigned from cabinet in 2018 for health reasons.
He resigned his seat in March 2023.
