The leader of Saskatchewan’s NDP wants a two-week delay in the presentation of the provincial budget, but Premier Scott Moe says Finance Minister Donna Harpauer will bring the document down as scheduled on March 18th.

Meili feels with the global impact of COVID-19 still strong that the consequences for Saskatchewan people haven’t really been felt yet but will be as oil prices plummet and the stock market goes down.

“If this premier can delay a budget to give him time to take off the training wheels, why can’t he delay the budget to take into account the effects of a global market crash?” Meili asked during a Tuesday afternoon news conference at the Saskatchewan Legislature.

Moe says the budget will not be delayed and even though there is some uncertainty, the government is not going to take a knee-jerk reaction and instantaneously re-crunch the numbers.

“It’ll be a budget that has taken into account to the best of our ability the market conditions that we foresee annualized out over the course of the next year.” Moe said.

He adds if an adjustment is needed it will be seen during the first quarter fiscal update.