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One minister, four files.

The salient fact about the Saskatchewan Marshals Service is not in its mandate. It is in who presides over it.

Tim McLeod, the MLA for Moose Jaw North, simultaneously holds four portfolios verified.5 He is the Minister of Justice. He is the Attorney General of the province. He is the Minister of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety. He is the Minister responsible for the Firearms Secretariat. He is also the Government House Leader.6 The Saskatchewan Marshals Service reports to him in his capacity as Minister of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety. The prosecutions arising from any arrest the Marshals make are conducted under his authority as Attorney General. The legislation under which those arrests are made is administered by his Ministry of Justice. The firearms files of any persons of interest are held by a secretariat for which he is the minister responsible.

MINISTER · JUSTICE & ATTORNEY GENERAL —— T. McLeod
MINISTER · CORRECTIONS, POLICING, PUBLIC SAFETY —— T. McLeod
MINISTER · FIREARMS SECRETARIAT —— T. McLeod
GOVERNMENT HOUSE LEADER —— T. McLeod
BUDGET · CORR. / POLICING / PUB. SAFETY 2025-26 —— $665M
BUDGET · JUSTICE & A.G.                         2025-26 —— $271M
BUDGET · SK PUBLIC SAFETY AGENCY           2025-26 —— $118.9M
BUDGET · SK FIREARMS OFFICE                 2025-26 —— $9.1M
SK MARSHALS SERVICE · ANNUAL BUDGET        —— ~$20M
SK MARSHALS · PLANNED COMPLEMENT            —— ~70 sworn

One MLA from Moose Jaw North sits on top of every node of the warrant-to-prosecution chain in this province.11

One MLA from Moose Jaw North sits on top of every node of the warrant-to-prosecution chain in this province.

This is the substrate on which the new force operates. It is also the substrate on which the new involuntary detention regime examined in Case 05 operates, because Tim McLeod is one of the two ministers who co-announced the Compassionate Intervention Act.4