Response from Jim Elliott, Green Party candidate - Regina Wascana Plains

I am responding to your questions in the best way I know how to at this time.

1. I would hope that we would not have any barriers to quality education but that cannot be kept without constant scrutiny and a full commitment to the principle of consistent access. Our party stands for affordable education and providing the needed provincial funding to school boards to address needs like this. We may need to have you and others provide us with guidance so as to set the supports in the best and most efficient manner.

2. When you set up general guidelines and principles, there will always be those that don't fit the form or the mold. These would need to be assessed individually to see if there would be modifications that would allow us to fit the intent with the action while staying fiscally responsible.

3. Poverty has always been a problem that we want society to respond to and it would be our intent to push strongly to get the level of poverty in this province down. Ideas that have been suggested would be increasing social assistance rates, disability benefits and something more comprehensive like a guaranteed annual income. We would achieve this through a better redistribution of wealth in this province.

As a last note, I have worked with a number of individuals with disabilities and count them as my friends and co-workers on a number of community initiatives.

Yours sincerely,
Jim Elliott,
Green Party of Saskatchewan
Regina Wascana Plains