New Century Party

A 25 Year Plan

The S21P
Timeline

2029 – 2053

Six terms. Twenty-five years. One province rebuilt.

To Start

Working Assumptions

Before reading the timeline, note these foundational assumptions. They are not predictions, they are the directional frame that holds the whole schedule together.

Political Baseline

This timeline assumes the next Government of Saskatchewan is formed in 2029 and that the NCP governs continuously across multiple terms.

What This Is

It is a political and implementation timeline, not a line-by-line cash-flow schedule.

Directional Dates

Dates are directional. Court rulings, labour capacity, federal approvals, negotiations with Indigenous governments, and borrowing conditions can move items forward or backward.

Default Timing

5-year items generally land during Term 2. 10-year items during Term 3. 15-year items during Term 4. 15–20 year items across Terms 4–5.

Election Map

Policy 21’s fiscal horizon is 25 years. The six election terms map as follows:

  • Term 1 = 2029–2032
  • Term 2 = 2033–2036
  • Term 3 = 2037–2040
  • Term 4 = 2041–2044
  • Term 5 = 2045–2048
  • Term 6 = 2049–2052
  • Year 25 checkpoint = 2053

At a Glance

Quick Scan

The shortest way to read the whole rollout before dropping into the detailed term and policy sections below.

Term Main Visible Wins Main Risks
Term 1 2029–2032
  • SSS front door and rent freeze
  • First health expansion and CCO launch
  • SHC repairs, early thermal and fibre pilots, and institutions stood up
  • Legislative overload
  • Court challenges and staffing shortages
  • Municipal friction and startup execution risk
Term 2 2033–2036
  • High-speed target for every household and farm
  • First STC corridors and first SaskGrocery network
  • Factory ramp-up, top-three school funding target, and wider health coverage
  • Buildout inflation and labour bottlenecks
  • Procurement delays
  • MMP readiness risk and slower-than-expected project delivery
Term 3 2037–2040
  • Final phases of Universal Health
  • Industrial-scale housing and manufacturing
  • Uranium processing / fuel fabrication target window and broader resilience network
  • Major capital execution risk
  • Licensing delays and grid / reactor timing risk
  • Public patience through the heavy-build years
Term 4 2041–2044
  • Old fossil system formally wound down
  • First mature nuclear and transmission outputs if on schedule
  • Deepened public ownership systems
  • Reliability risk during transition closeout
  • Remediation load and missed nuclear / grid milestones
  • Political pressure if replacement systems lag
Term 5 2045–2048
  • First true post-sunset Saskatchewan
  • Mature SaskGrocery, STC, thermal, and digital systems
  • Final major housing waves
  • Whether value capture is actually materializing
  • Debt-service pressure and maintenance burden
  • Weaker-than-expected public-enterprise recovery
Term 6 2049–2052
  • Near-complete housing and infrastructure systems
  • Mature ownership and utility revenues
  • Lower-leakage economy if the model works
  • Whether mature operating costs remain too high
  • Whether recovery channels are deep enough
  • Long-run political discipline
Year 25 Checkpoint 2053
  • Clear answer on whether the province is on the moderate-balance path
  • Or on the transformation path
  • Or still structurally short
  • If growth, savings, and value retention underperform, annual balance may still remain out of reach

Part I

Term by Term Overview

Each term has a defining mission. Here is what the platform looks like from the inside of each governing period — what has to be done, what should become visible, and where the greatest risks sit.

  • Term 1 2029 – 2032

    Foundation Government

    The main goal is to pass the core statutes, stand up the new institutions, deliver immediate household relief, and begin the first wave of visible buildout.

    • Pass the legal backbone: Human Dignity, SSS, Universal Health, Reconciliation, Housing, Fair Labour, Climate Crossroads, Financial Sovereignty, Democratic Renewal, and related enabling acts.
    • Launch immediate household relief: SSS front door, rent freeze, winter eviction protections, early health expansion, public-safety crisis teams, and first education funding resets.
    • Create the new institutions the platform depends on: SCC, EVA, SCDA, SEEA, SNRC, SSF, SFG, SDS, SAB, SaskGrocery, and SPSA resilience planning.
    • Start first-wave capital work: SHC repairs and rapid rebuilds, SaskHomes design book, factory siting, thermal loop pilots, fibre acceleration, STC planning, resilience hub identification, and early grid modernization.
    • Begin the climate and fossil-accountability sequence: end subsidies, raise the LMR to 2.0, require cleanup bonds, and start the managed fossil sunset clock.
    • Publish the first full Policy 21 fiscal update: establish the funding lanes in practice, and launch the first SaskBond and Crown borrowing programs.
  • Term 2 2033 – 2036

    Early Buildout and First Visible Shift

    This is the term where the new system stops looking theoretical. Services expand, infrastructure begins to appear at scale, and the public starts seeing what the first term was building toward.

    • SSS becomes the standard provincial front door for income support, with automatic renewals and indexed benefit logic bedded in.
    • Universal Health moves through its middle phases: pharmacare, home and community care, hearing, basic vision, and urgent dental care.
    • The five-year rent freeze remains in force through the early part of this term while SaskHomes construction, SHC acquisitions, and modular production scale up.
    • SaskTel’s five-year affordable high-speed target for every household and farm comes due around this term.
    • The first major STC corridors and logistics routes should be operational across Saskatchewan.
    • Saskatchewan should move into the top three provinces for public school operating funding if Lifelong Learning targets stay on track.
    • Democratic Renewal moves from law into reality: campaign-finance and lobbying reforms are in force, CodeShare moves through its first phases, and MMP is targeted for the 2033 election if the Act received the required lead time.
    • First major SMC and food-system infrastructure moves from planning into operation, including SaskGrocery rollout and regional abattoirs.
  • Term 3 2037 – 2040

    Scale, Consolidation, and the End of the First Decade

    This is the end of the first ten years. The platform is no longer in startup mode. The question becomes whether Saskatchewan can consolidate the gains and scale the large systems without losing discipline.

    • Universal Health completes its final phases across Years 9–10: long-term care and personal care home transition, plus full integration of remaining covered services.
    • Education and cultural capacity should be operating at a much higher level than the pre-2029 baseline, across schools, libraries, arts, and post-secondary systems.
    • SaskHomes, SHC, and the housing factory should be operating at industrial scale with public housing construction no longer dependent on proving the concept.
    • The uranium refinery and fuel-fabrication track is targeted to be operational within ten years, and this term is the target window if delivery stays on schedule.
    • Major SaskPower and SNRC projects should be deep in construction or early operation, with grid modernization and the VPP moving into system-wide relevance.
    • Disaster resilience moves from site identification and pilot retrofits into a hardened provincial network.
    • The platform reaches the end of its first-decade fiscal expansion phase and enters a more mature but still heavy buildout period.
  • Term 4 2041 – 2044

    Transition Completion and Fifteen-Year Deadlines

    This is the hardest transition-closing term. Multiple 15-year deadlines arrive here, and the platform has to prove that the earlier buildup was enough to carry the province through them.

    • The 15-year managed sunset of oil and gas operations reaches its conclusion, along with the expiry of Energy Veterans pathways and the Energy Veterans surcharge.
    • Any remaining operator-of-last-resort fossil activity under the SNRC must wind down on the same timeline.
    • SaskEnergy’s transition away from direct fossil-gas heating should now cover a large share of public buildings, dense developments, and early retrofit districts.
    • Saskatchewan’s 15-year fibre and digital-sovereignty goals land in this term, including broad completion of the provincial data-residency target.
    • The SSF reaches the end of its first 15 years of accumulation and may become eligible for limited annual disbursements under the strict payout rule.
    • Reactor, transmission, and fuel-fabrication schedules should be moving from late construction into first operation or advanced commissioning.
    • This is the term where the platform stops being mostly about transition promises and starts being judged by whether the old system is actually gone.
  • Term 5 2045 – 2048

    Post-Sunset Saskatchewan

    This is the first term after the fossil sunset horizon. The task here is not just to keep building, but to prove that the replacement economy is real and durable.

    • Cleanup, remediation, and long-tail transition work continue even though the core extraction sunset is already complete.
    • The province now relies more on public ownership and lower-cost systems than on transition politics, with revenues coming from utilities, processing, manufacturing, and retained value.
    • SaskHomes enters its final major waves of buildout if the 15–20-year construction target remains on schedule.
    • SaskGrocery, STC, SMC, thermal systems, and digital systems should all be operating as mature public infrastructure rather than pilot institutions.
    • The SSF may begin limited transfers under the payout rule while remaining primarily an intergenerational wealth vehicle rather than an operating slush fund.
    • This is the first term where Saskatchewan can really test whether its value-capture strategy is producing deeper fiscal room.
  • Term 6 2049 – 2052

    Mature-State Saskatchewan

    The last full term inside the Policy 21 horizon. The province should now be living inside the systems the earlier terms built.

    • Housing buildout should be substantially complete or in its final tranche if the 100,000-unit target is delivered over the full 20-year outer horizon.
    • The large social, utility, manufacturing, and digital systems should all be operating in mature form.
    • Capital intensity should be lower than in the first fifteen years with more of the fiscal burden shifted toward operations, maintenance, and debt service rather than first-wave buildout.
    • Saskatchewan is now judged on whether the public systems it built are genuinely better to govern, easier to live in, and more capable of retaining value than the old model.
    • This is where Policy 21’s long-run claims about lower leakage, stronger ownership, and deeper recovery channels have to stand on their own.
  • Year 25 Checkpoint 2053

    The Long-Run Test

    The first checkpoint after six full terms and the formal end of the Policy 21 horizon.

    • On the hard base case, the platform is still not back to annual balance by this point.
    • Under the debt-service model, the moderate balance path returns to annual balance around 2053.
    • Under the transformation path, annual balance returns much earlier, around 2042.
    • The real question by this point is no longer whether the platform was expensive. It is whether Saskatchewan is stronger, more sovereign, easier to live in, and more capable of carrying itself than it was in 2029.

Part II

Policy by Policy

Each of the 21 policies has its own implementation arc. Expand any policy to read its term-by-term delivery schedule.

01 — Human Dignity
Term 1

Pass the Human Dignity Act, amend the Human Rights Code, and issue government-wide compliance, training, and implementation directions.

Term 2

Apply the dignity standard consistently across ministries, Crowns, municipalities, contractors, and complaints processes.

Terms 3–6

Human Dignity operates as the standing legal baseline for how every later policy is interpreted and defended.

02 — Saskatchewan Social Security
Term 1

Create the single front door, merge major provincial support streams, and launch the indexed SSS structure.

Term 2

Bed in automatic renewals, cleaner administration, and stable delivery of the stacked components across households.

Terms 3–6

Treat SSS as the permanent social-income floor, with annual METR publication and policy adjustments where needed.

03 — Universal Health
Term 1

Launch Phase 1 (Years 1–2): team-based primary care, serious mental-health and addictions care, and essential pharmacare. Start workforce recruitment and compensation reset immediately.

Term 2

Move through Phases 2 and early 3 (Years 3–8): broader pharmacare, home and community care, hearing care, basic vision, urgent dental, and then broader oral, vision, and allied-health coverage.

Term 3

Complete Phase 4 (Years 9–10): long-term care and personal care home transition, plus full integration of the remaining covered services.

Terms 4–6

Operate the mature universal system and focus on retention, wait times, and long-run preventive returns.

04 — Reconciliation
Term 1

Begin formal outreach to Treaty Nations, Indigenous communities, governments, and organizations; co-develop the Consent Protocol; adopt the Saskatchewan UNDRIP Implementation Act; establish the new Offices; submit the full review of Saskatchewan’s progress on the Calls to Action to the Legislature; and require ministry-level implementation plans.

Terms 2–6

Move from framework to practice: apply consent, co-governance, capacity funding, right of first refusal, and co-developed decision structures across the platform.

05 — Housing Crisis
Term 1

Enact the five-year rent freeze, winter eviction protections, rental rights, rapid rebuilds, unit repairs, and the SaskHomes design program.

Term 2

Continue the rent freeze through its sunset window while scaling SHC acquisitions, rapid construction, Priority Housing Zones, and factory-backed public housing.

Terms 3–5

Continue the 15–20-year buildout of 100,000 public homes, using proven occupancy and rent flows to support later bond series.

Term 6

Finish the long tail of the housing buildout if the program uses the full outer horizon.

06 — 21st Century Connected Communities
Term 1

Change SaskEnergy’s mandate, start thermal-utility pilots, begin fibre acceleration, revive STC planning, establish Priority Housing Zone rules, begin serious Regina–Saskatoon high-speed-rail planning and corridor protection, and negotiate human-centred municipal reforms.

Term 2

Hit the five-year affordable high-speed target for every household and farm; open first STC corridors and depots; expand Dig Once coordination; begin wider thermal district rollout; and start enforcing PHZ land-supply expectations.

Terms 3–4

Continue fibre and thermal buildout across the province, with the 15-year fibre-to-all target landing by the end of Term 4.

Terms 5–6

Operate the mature thermal, logistics, municipal, and telecom systems and deepen cost recovery.

07 — Public Safety
Term 1

Redirect the Saskatchewan Marshals budget, launch Community Crisis Officers, create 24/7 addictions and sobering centres, begin Police Act reform, and start the federal push for Saskatchewan-wide decriminalization of small personal possession.

Term 2

Expand the alternative-response model province-wide where feasible, embed the health-first possession approach in day-to-day practice, and tie encampment response more firmly to housing delivery.

Terms 3–6

Operate the system as a prevention-first public-safety model, with later fiscal gains expected from lower crisis churn rather than early overclaiming.

08 — Co-operative Development
Term 1

Establish the SCDA and pass the Right of Worker First Refusal legislation, including the 180-day worker exclusivity window and the Fair Work Authority trigger system.

Term 2

Begin real conversion work as closures, relocations, retirements, and sales trigger the new worker window, SCDA support system, and financing pathways.

Terms 3–6

Treat co-operative development as a standing anti-leakage and succession strategy rather than a one-time program.

09 — Fair Labour
Term 1

Begin the eight-year phase-down from the old work-week standard and the eight-year rise in the minimum wage; establish the Fair Work Authority; launch SME transition grants and apprenticeship support.

Term 2

Continue the annual work-week reduction and minimum-wage increases while enforcement and employer adjustment mechanisms mature.

Term 3

Complete the eight-year transition to the 30-hour standard and $25 minimum wage if the Act began in 2029.

Terms 4–6

Operate the mature labour floor and retire the temporary transition-grant logic.

10 — Energy Veterans
Term 1

Launch the program immediately for Saskatchewan workers first, then open it to eligible workers across Canada after the first year; begin retire/retrain/redeploy pathways.

Terms 2–3

Run the program at full scale while the oil-and-gas sunset and clean-buildout intensify.

Term 4

Complete the final years of the 15-year pathway window and align the program’s sunset with the oil-and-gas sunset.

Terms 5–6

No new transition entrants if the sunset holds; remaining obligations become tail-end administration rather than active expansion.

11 — The Saskatchewan Century Corps
Term 1

Create the Corps, negotiate master agreements, and start early hiring and paid training tied to immediate public works.

Term 2

Scale the Corps into a true province-building labour institution linked to housing, thermal loops, fibre, and resilience work.

Terms 3–6

Keep the Corps as a permanent workforce and emergency-response instrument, with long-run training and credential value outlasting the original transition period.

12 — Lifelong Learning
Term 1

Launch educator compensation measures, staffing stabilization, school meals, pre-K expansion, curriculum work, library and distance-learning expansion, and post-secondary funding agreements.

Term 2

Reach top-three provincial operating funding within five years, continue pre-K and meal rollout, phase out public funding for private and independent schools over the same five-year window, and advance capacity expansion across post-secondary institutions.

Term 3

Reach the end of the ten-year education transition window, targeting first place in comparable public-school funding by the end of the decade.

Terms 4–6

Operate the mature education system and focus on long-run workforce, research, literacy, and cultural returns.

13 — Climate Crossroads
Term 1

End fossil subsidies immediately, drop the federal carbon-tax lawsuit, raise the LMR to 2.0, require operators to post 25% of cleanup bonds within 90 days and the rest within 12 months, create the SEEA, begin the climate-lawsuit process, ban new exploration permits, and formally start the fossil sunset.

Term 2

Enforce the full bond regime, phase down extraction permits on the annual decline schedule, and operate the first full years of the managed sunset.

Term 3

Continue the phase-down and cleanup while the wider energy and worker-transition architecture scales.

Term 4

Reach the end of the 15-year sunset period if the policy begins in 2029.

Terms 5–6

Continue cleanup, remediation, litigation, and any long-tail accountability work after extraction sunset.

14 — Food Sovereignty
Term 1

Establish the SAB, SaskGrocery, the Farmland Trust, and the Farmer Right to Repair regime; begin the first retail and wholesale rollout in underserved areas; and start standing up the wholesale, logistics, and pooled-marketing machinery.

Term 2

Build out the first major grocery network, cold-chain links, hopper-car procurement, inland terminals, and the first regional abattoirs and processing facilities, with SaskGrocery targeting at least 50 retail locations and SAB/SMC targeting at least 6 regional abattoirs within the first five years.

Term 3

Continue expansion into a province-wide system with geographic price parity, stronger farm-side tools, and more local value-add retention.

Terms 4–6

Operate SaskGrocery, SAB programs, and the processing/logistics network as mature public food infrastructure.

15 — Resource and Energy Sovereignty
Term 1

Pass the sovereignty legislation, redesign royalties and levies, establish the SNRC and Treaty Nations Resource Trust framework, begin phased construction on the uranium refinery and fuel-fabrication track, order SaskPower to produce its nuclear expansion plan within 24 months, and produce the first detailed grid-modernization estimates within the first year.

Term 2

Start applying the new ownership model to new and expanded projects; begin large-scale grid work, VPP rollout, EV-charging expansion, and early uranium-processing buildout.

Term 3

Target the end of the first ten-year window for the uranium refinery and fuel-fabrication track to become operational if delivery remains on schedule.

Term 4

Continue reactor, transmission, and major energy buildout through staged gates, with first units targeted to move from construction into commissioning or operation if approvals, labour, and procurement hold.

Terms 5–6

Operate a much more mature ownership-and-energy regime with deeper public revenue channels and a larger domestic processing base.

16 — Digital Sovereignty
Term 1

Establish Saskatchewan Digital Services, pass the data-sovereignty laws, set secure desktop standards, and begin the first cloud and platform migrations.

Term 2

Move the first major public systems onto Saskatchewan-controlled infrastructure; launch core public apps, portals, and shared services.

Terms 3–4

Continue the long migration away from vendor lock-in and toward Saskatchewan-based storage and processing, with the 15-year target landing by the end of Term 4.

Terms 5–6

Operate the mature sovereign digital stack and harvest the long-run vendor savings and institutional control benefits.

17 — Financial Sovereignty
Term 1

Seed the SSF, establish the SSFA and SFG, begin the phased transfer of the provincial operating float out of commercial banks, and start building wholesale liquidity support for credit unions.

Terms 1–2

Complete the 36-month transition of provincial cash management into the SFG, department by department and Crown by Crown.

Terms 2–4

Let the SSF accumulate with no disbursements for its first 15 years, while the SFG deepens treasury control, liquidity support, and wholesale support for Saskatchewan’s financial system.

Term 4

Reach the first point where limited SSF disbursements may be legally possible under the payout rule.

Terms 5–6

Operate the mature treasury and endowment architecture as part of Saskatchewan’s normal fiscal system.

18 — Democratic Renewal
Term 1

Bring campaign-finance reforms and lobbying reforms into force immediately; lower the voting age and implement other immediate electoral rules; launch CodeShare Phase 1 as a read-only system for new legislation and regulations; and begin electoral-readiness work.

Term 2

Target the 2033 election for MMP implementation if the law passed early enough in Term 1; otherwise treat 2037 as the outside backstop. Launch CodeShare’s account, commenting, and proposal phases across Years 2–5.

Terms 3–6

Operate the mature MMP, transparency, lobbying, and CodeShare systems as the standing democratic architecture of the province.

19 — Manufacturing
Term 1

Establish the SMC, choose sites, start procurement, and break ground on the first major facilities tied directly to housing, energy, and food-system needs.

Term 2

Ramp the housing factory toward full production within 3 years of groundbreaking and continue the first five-year buildout for regional abattoirs, flour mills, canola crushing and bottling, and related facilities.

Term 3

Expand into mature production for housing modules, heat pumps, batteries, food processing, and uranium fuel fabrication.

Terms 4–6

Operate SMC as standing public industrial capacity anchored by Saskatchewan’s own demand and later third-party sales.

20 — Disaster Resilience
Term 1

Start Phase 1: identify sites, run hazard assessments, establish standards, stockpiles, communications systems, and retrofit the first Primary Regional Resilience Hubs.

Term 2

Drive toward the 2035 target for islandable backup power on designated critical human infrastructure while moving into broader hardening, air-quality upgrades, local resilience sites, and deeper backup-power rollout.

Term 3

Extend the resilience network beyond the first 2035 milestone, close regional gaps, and normalize all-hazards planning across institutions.

Terms 4–6

Operate the resilience network as a normal part of public life, not just an emergency add-on, while continuing maintenance and targeted upgrades.

21 — Funding
Term 1

Publish the first full Policy 21 implementation budget, funding lanes, and annual 25-year fiscal update; launch the first SaskBond and Crown-financing programs.

Terms 2–3

Move through the main peak buildout period, with annual reporting, staged approvals, METR publication, and five-year full-model refreshes.

Term 4

Use the end of the 15-year transition deadlines to test whether the platform’s mid-course corrections are working.

Terms 5–6

Govern the mature-state platform with lower capital intensity, deeper recoveries, and the long-run question of whether Saskatchewan is moving toward annual balance.

Year 25 / 2053

Use the formal checkpoint to measure whether Saskatchewan has reached the moderate balance path or remains dependent on further growth, savings, and ownership gains.

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