Saskatchewan NDP Leader Ryan Meili is challenging Premier Scott Moe to attend an upcoming climate change rally.

Students and young people from across the globe are staging regular strikes to call for action on climate change and raise awareness about the issue.

Moe’s office says he won’t attend a rally planned for Friday in front of the Saskatchewan legislature.

A spokesman says Moe will be out of Regina in his home constituency and that his office has to consider hundreds of event invitations when setting his schedule.

Meili says he attended a recent climate change rally in Saskatoon to speak to students and took to social media to challenge Moe to do the same.

Regina NDP MLA Trent Wotherspoon called it weak of Environment Minister Dustin Duncan to have been absent from last week’s event as well.

Duncan said he was in his home constituency of Weyburn.

“I will make a commitment that I will meet with these students,” Duncan said Monday, adding that he will take a look at his calendar.

(CP)