Sask. Liberals name Rudachyk interim leader

The Saskatchewan Liberal Party has a new leader.

A little more than two weeks after Naveed Anwar announced his resignation as leader, the party has appointed Robert Rudachyk as its interim leader.

“I am both humbled and inspired by this great responsibility,” Rudachyk said in a media release. “This is no easy role that I am stepping into, but it is one which I feel is important in order to help rebuild a centrist political voice in this province.”

Rudachyk was born in Saskatoon and raised in Weyburn. He has a science degree from the University of Saskatchewan.

He’s to run in the constituency of Saskatoon Westview in the upcoming provincial election. In the 2016 election, he ran in Saskatoon Riversdale.

He’s a father of two and is active in the community, serving terms on the Mayfair School Community Council and with his local community association.

“My first task is to continue building the Liberal team to give Saskatchewan voters a viable alternative at the ballot box, one that will hold Scott Moe and the Saskatchewan Party to account for all the divisions they have sown to divert from their fiscal mismanagement, short-sighted policies, and failure to adapt for the future,” Rudachyk said in the release.

He wants to diversify the province’s economy “to better withstand the boom and bust cycles of commodities, and work towards adapting our energy industry.”

He also wants to put limits on donations to political parties, ban donations from corporations or unions, and create a new taxation formula that will be more fair to the province’s residents.

The Liberals don’t hold any seats in the Saskatchewan legislature.