Saskatchewan NDP’s Beck holds first caucus meeting after election [Video]

Saskatchewan Opposition NDP Leader Carla Beck held her first post-election caucus meeting Friday, saying she wants to prove to residents her party is the government in waiting.

Beck’s team has 27 members, nearly double what she had before the Oct. 28 election but short of the 31 required to form a majority in the 61-seat legislature.

She told reporters her priorities will be health care and cost-of-living issues, including pressing Premier Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government to cut the gas tax and the provincial sales tax on children’s clothing and ready-to-eat grocery items.

“Anyone who seeks to be government in this province should be focused on addressing the issues that Saskatchewan people need addressed,” Beck said.

“[We’re] focused on not only showing where the problems are in health care, in cost-of-living, crime and education, but actually putting forward solutions.”

Beck was asked about Moe changing course on a promise to …