Time is money, the old saying goes, so it is perhaps not surprising the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce managed to cram a meal, its Annual General Meeting and a guest speaker all into the lunch hour period April 27.
At the AGM, held at the Ramada Hotel last week, in addition to the mundane business of passing the 2015 AGM minutes and accepting the 2015 auditor’s report, Chamber executive director Juanita Polegi reported Chamber membership now exceeds 460 members. Despite the soft Canadian economy, Yorkton remains a strong business environment, she noted.
Corey Werner, the Chamber’s 2016 president presented last year’s president Joel Martinuk, manager of Key Chevrolet, with a plaque of appreciation.
Canadian Western Bank manager Kelly Price was name 2015 director of the year.
Yorkton-Melville MP Cathay Wagantall spoke about challenges of her early days in Ottawa getting settled and her first private-member’s bill dubbed Cassie and Molly’s law. The legislation seeks to make it a separate crime to cause injury or death to a pre-born child when an act of violence is perpetrated against a pregnant woman.
Wagantall assured the audience the bill is not a back-door attempt to reopen the abortion debate, a criticism that has been levelled at her since she first started working on the bill.
She also criticized the federal government budget for its larger-than promised deficits, having no plan to return to balance within the current mandate and not doing enough to create jobs, stimulate economic growth and help small businesses.
Her anti-Liberal message was well-received by the Yorkton business crowd.
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