A Saskatchewan Liberal candidate who ran in last year’s provincial election is again aiming for the Saskatoon Fairview seat.
Shah Rukh will run for the party in the upcoming byelection.
“Local residents are still being hit hard by the damaging spring provincial budget, from the PST increase and added tax on insurance premiums to cuts to important government and social services, we’re all paying the price of the Sask. Party government’s financial mismanagement,” Rukh said in a news release Thursday announcing his selection as the Saskatchewan Liberal Party candidate.
Rukh, a longtime resident of the Saskatoon Fairview constituency, which lies on Saskatoon’s west end, ran for seat in 2016 but finished third behind Saskatchewan Party winner Jennifer Campeau and the NDP’s Vicki Mowat.
He is the managing director for SSG Security Services and lived in Toronto prior to moving to Saskatoon. He was the vice-president of the Centennial College Student Association while a student in Toronto.
The Saskatoon Fairview seat opened up in late June after Campeau stepped down from her MLA position. A byelection must be held within six months to fill the vacant seat.
Cameron Scott was officially nominated as the Saskatchewan Party’s byelection candidate Thursday. Mowat won the NDP’s nomination in late July and will run again for the party, and the Progressive Conservative Party’s David Prokopchuk, who lost in March’s Saskatoon Meewasin byelection, is seeking the PC nomination.
