Beatty Replaces Belanger At Northern Affairs
Friday, February 03, 2006 at 15:06
Saskatchewan has a new Northern Affairs minister, as part of a larger cabinet shuffle within the provincial NDP government.
Cumberland MLA Joan Beatty is taking over that role from former minister Buckley Belanger.
Belanger is now the new minister of Community Resources, formerly known as the department of Social Services. He’s also the minister responsible for Disability Issues.
Belanger has been serving with Northern Affairs for the last three years. He says it was easier to endorse his move out of that department knowing that another northerner was filling his old job.
Beatty is also the minister responsible for the Status of Women.
Her old portfolio of Culture, Youth and Recreation has been given to Glenn Hagel.