Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport's Legislation

• establishes the Active Families tax benefit program and lays out amounts and eligibility criteria for parents and legal guardians.

• lays out the legislative mandate, structure and functions of the Saskatchewan Archives Board, legal requirements for the management and preservation of records and the legal and administrative activities that must be undertaken for the Board to function.

• lays out the legislative mandate, powers, structure and functions of the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the legal and administrative activities that must be undertaken for the Board to function.

• defines a professional artist and recognizes the importance of fair compensation
• requires written contracts between professional artists and those who engage their services and provides a list of elements that must be included in contracts
• recognizes the important contributions artists make to Saskatchewan
• repeals The Status of the Artist Act

The Communications Network Corporations Act

• establishes the Saskatchewan Communications Network Corporation and describes its mandate, powers, duties and corporate structure.

• describes the legal responsibilities of the Minister responsible for culture and recreation in Saskatchewan.

• establishes a trust fund, from the liquidation of assets of the foreclosure of the C.C.U.B. Ltd., which may be used to further the culture and heritage of the Doukhobors of Canada.

• determines the administration and application of the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit which is designed to help increase and maintain employment in the Saskatchewan film industry.

• provides for the gathering, collating and recording of information respecting names of places and geographical features within the province.

• ratifies and validates the Grasslands National Park Agreement and authorizes the province to transfer land to the federal government for inclusion in Grasslands National Park.

• defines heritage property, outlines the government’s roles and responsibilities with respect to heritage, and outlines the process of heritage designation.

• recognizes Yom haShoah as Holocaust Memorial Day in Saskatchewan and determines the date of observance (celebrated on Tuesday, Apil 21, 2009 and then on Sunday, April 11, 2010).

• authorizes the Minister responsible for Lotteries to:
  • enter into agreements with other provinces to conduct and manage a lottery scheme in Saskatchewan;
  • issue a licence to a non-profit organization (currently Western Canada Lottery Corporation),authorizing it to conduct and manage a lottery scheme on behalf of the government; and 
  • designate a non-profit organization (currently Sask Sport Inc.) to act as the marketing organization for the lottery scheme. 

• recognizes the heroic efforts, humane compassion and personal financial sacrifice made by Jean-Louis Légaré with respect to Chief Sitting Bull and his people during their years of refuge in what is now the Province of Saskatchewan.

• provides for the management and retention for public use of the riverbank area of Saskatoon by an independent agency funded by the province, city and university.

• promotes and preserves multiculturalism in Saskatchewan by recognizing diversity with respect to race, cultural heritage, ethnicity, and place of origin, states broadly the provincial multiculturalism policy and provides the Minister the power to carry out the purposes of the Act.

• provides authority for the protection, disposition, administration and management of provincial parks, recreation sites, historic sites, protected areas and park land reserves.

• authorizes the Minister to assist local governments and agencies in establishing regional parks to increase availability of parks to the public.

• lays out the legislative mandate and functions of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, the role of the Museum director and the Museum’s responsibility toward Aboriginal and culturally-sensitive objects.

• lays out the legislative mandate, powers and functions, and structure of the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts (Conexus Arts Centre) and the legal and administrative activities that must be undertaken for Centre to function.

• establishes a board of trustees to manage and operate the Community Initiatives Fund and contains reporting requirements and authority for the provincial government to establish regulations to govern the use of moneys in the fund and requirements for applying to the fund.

• establishes the Saskatchewan Heritage Foundation and describers its mandate, powers, duties and corporate structure.

• declares April 6 each year as a Saskatchewan Day of Appreciation for Scottish Clans in Canada.

• lays out the legislative mandate, powers, structures and functions of the Tourism Saskatchewan board and the legal and administrative activities that must be undertaken.

• provides for the management and retention for public use of the riverbank area of Moose Jaw by an independent agency funded by the province and city.

• establishes Wanuskewin Heritage Park as a corporate entity and lays out the broad governance structure and the duties, powers and authority of the organization.

• provides for the management and retention for public use of the area around Wascana Lake and the provincial capital buildings by an independent agency funded by the province, city and university.

• establishes the Western Development Museum as a corporate entity and lays out the broad governance structure and the duties, powers and authority of the organization.