Newly appointed Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O’Regan will be stopping by La Ronge and Saskatoon today to make two announcements.
He will be joined by the Minister of Rural and Remote Health, Greg Ottenbreit.
The pair is due to land in La Ronge around 10 a.m. to view upgrades at Barber Field Airport from Transport Canada funding. Then they will head to The Jonas Roberts Memorial Community Centre to make an announcement regarding funding for a health and wellness recovery centre.
“What we have planned is that they will be coming into the JRMCC at about 10:45 in the morning,” says Lac La Ronge Indian Band Chief Tammy Cook-Searson. “Then we are going to start the event around 11 o’clock with and opening prayer and then we’ll have the announcement. We’ve invited many special guests from around northern Saskatchewan to join us.”
After lunch, they will fly to Saskatoon to announce funding for the Fond-du-Lac airport that Chief Louie Mercredi has been advocating.
O’Regan replaced Jane Philpott as the Indigenous Services minister in mid-January following a cabinet shuffle.
“It’s (communication with O’Regan) been good,” says Chief Cook-Searson. “It’s been good with the staff that we have been dealing with. So, we are looking forward to meeting him and hosting him here in our community.”
Chief Cook-Searson adds that Minister Ottenbreit has been to La Ronge for events in the past and they are looking forward to hosting him once again.
(PHOTO: Seamus O’Regan (left) at an event in mid-February. Photo courtesy of Seamus O’Regan, Facebook.)