A cabinet newcomer is Saskatchewan’s new highways and transportation minister.
Judy Bradley, MLA for Weyburn-Big Muddy, was sworn in after a cabinet shuffle announced by premier Roy Romanow last week.
The 44-year-old former teacher was raised on a farm near Gray, Sask. and lives in Milestone. First elected in 1991, she was most recently the NDP caucus chair, served on the priorities and planning committee for cabinet and the crown corporations committee, and now faces the challenge of implementing the province’s new transportation strategy.
The other newcomer is Meadow Lake MLA Maynard Sonntag, 41, who was raised on a farm near Goodsoil, Sask. and worked for the Meadow Lake Credit Union before his election in 1991. He is now responsible for Saskatchewan Property Management Corporation and the Liquor and Gaming Authority.
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Both newcomers take over from Clay Serby, who held the highways post temporarily after Andy Renaud’s resignation.
Serby is now minister of health. Eric Cline moved from health to finance and Janice MacKinnon moved from finance to economic and co-operative development. She also becomes house leader.
Dwain Lingenfelter leaves economic development to take over the Crown Investments Corporation from Berny Wiens, who is now minister of intergovernmental and aboriginal affairs.
Deputy house leader
Ned Shillington, who is recovering from surgery earlier this year, leaves intergovernmental affairs to be provincial secretary and deputy house leader.
Joanne Crofford, who was in charge of the Indian and Metis Affairs Secretariat, retains responsibility for Saskatchewan Gaming Corporation and takes over from Bob Mitchell as minister of post-secondary education and skills training. Mitchell retains the labor portfolio.
The rest of cabinet, including Eric Upshall as agriculture minister, remains the same.
Romanow said people shouldn’t assume this cabinet will stay in place until the next election, two or three years from now.
“The one certainty about this job is uncertainty,” he said.
