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Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall

Premier Brad Wall found a few things he liked in the recent federal budget.

He says he was pleased with a few of the initiatives coming out of Thursday's budget presentation, and is happy to see things made a bit easier for businesses.

"We've been pressing hard for improvements in terms of environmental assessment," Wall said. "Not that we would have any less-rigourous environmental assessment on economic projects, but that we could streamline it to one instead of a provincial and a federal, and they've moved on that."

Wall was also happy with changes to employment insurance so there was less dis-incentive for people to move from struggling areas of the country to Saskatchewan; and with additional investment in education on reserves, but believes there is still more work to be done when it comes to aboriginal education.

"We have been, for example, investing in adult basic education on reserve, and we're going to continue to find ways to partner," Wall added. "Because we've got to close the gap between aboriginal employment and non-aboriginal employment, and the best way to do that is through education.

On the same day the federal budget was presented in the House of Commons, Wall's Saskatchewan Party government formally approved the provincial budget that was presented a week earlier in the Legislature.

Shawn Mullin talked with Premier Brad Wall about the federal budget: