Weyburn hosts the Saskatchewan Party Leadership Candidates at the Cugnet Centre on November 30th.

The candidates continue to tour around the province and talk about their policy platforms.

Tina Beaudry-Mellor, Candidate for Saskatchewan party leadership, was in Weyburn on Friday this week and spoke about her involvement in working on policies.

"I think its important that whoever does become Premier of the province is going to be able to fight those elections like we will in 2020 and to be able to bring people together."

Beaudry-Mellor has previously served as Minister for Social Services.

Beaudry- Mellor talked about the cost of human services to the province as she would like to look at smart social investments.

"All our of human services portfolios take up three-quarters of our budget."

"We need to be looking at our social investment side of things very strategically."

"We started on some income assistance redesign. when I was the minister and work needs to continue."

"I do think we need to include things like financial literacy and entrepreneurship in the curriculum. THose things pay dividends over the long term if you just look at our consumer-debt load here of Canadians."

Beaudry-Mellor would like to make this financial education mandatory.

Beaudry-Mellow talked about making Saskatchewan the economic powerhouse of the West.

"We've had the election of a Green-NDP government in BC and the Alberta-Notley Government andIi think we have the opportunity in Saskatchewan right now to be the powerhouse. The Premier has kind of laid out that foundation."

The Candidate also says she wants to look at some of the changes made in the last budget and also said that she was the first to make the promise to reinstate the exemption of PST on insurance "which affects small businesses and the farming community."

"I would like to see 100% 4G/LTE coverage across the province of Saskatchewan."

Beaudry-Mellor said innovations in mining and oil and gas needs to be looked at.

"I have put forward what I call a next-gen economy piece which is growing an entrepreneurial ecosystem which would provide a %25 tax credit."

She would like to see a two-year rolling budget cycle in order to reduce the government footprint including bringing Central services into another ministry area.

Beaudry-Mellor spoke about policies around marijuana legalization.

"My response to the cannabis file, is we need to move forward on this front. I am very worried that we are not getting in front of this issue."

She is concerned that the Federal government is going to push through legislation on Marijuana and Ontario companies could end up 'setting up shop' in Saskatchewan drawing revenue away from this province. There have been ideas put forward on who should look after the quality assurance of Cannabis. Some have suggested SLGA should do that but Beaudry-Mellor said she would rather see it in the private sector.

Beaudry-Mellor would like to see the Marijuana usage age set to the same as alcohol.

"I would like to see the conversation around impairment for operating a motor vehicle or heavy machinery as zero tolerance."

Beaudry Mellor goes on to say how the legislation is designed to take the criminal element out of marijuana consumption and putting the age too high will not help that.

Campaigning continues until the convention for the Saskatchewan Party in January.