N.L. Premier Tony Wakeham teases a heavy legislative agenda ahead of fall session

Back in the House again, which you're going to see measures introduced to talk about those three issues when it comes to health care, cost of living, and safer communities. That's just some of the legislation that Premier Tony Wakeham has teased his government will introduce in the upcoming fall sitting in the province's House of Assembly. And it's not the only legislation that's been teased. Bills on e-bikes, police oversight, and updating long-term care standards have all been discussed since the House closed in May. It's typical for fall sessions to focus on passing legislation, as spring sittings are dominated by budget debate. The House of Assembly is set to reconvene on October 26th for four weeks. This government has been in power for a little over a year, and these problems exist when they're in opposition. I want to see some action. The province's NDP leader, Jim Dinn, says the problems he's seeing with health care and affordability are the same as when he was first elected. He believes whatever the PCs have planned to introduce has to have an actual impact on residents' daily lives. His promises during the election were vague, his slogan is vague, and his commitment to do anything in this legislative session is vague as well. Liberal leader John Hogan also has concerns with how bad affordability has become for residents. He says he's traveled the province to hear what's important to people and it was the number one issue. People are really struggling about, you know, you talk about paycheck to paycheck and in a lot of cases it's even worse than that. So we really want to talk to the government, ask questions and put them, put their feet to the fire about how they're going to deliver to help people with the cost of living. In addition, Hogan says people are still facing struggles with health care access. He's looking for clear answers on what Wakeham is doing to make health care better, given that he campaigned on that promise. I mean, when you talk about health care, it doesn't need to be in the legislature to do things to help health care. It's policy driven, it's decisions that need to be made, and clearly, as I outlined, what we've been hearing is that the decisions that have been made, or lack of decisions, have made the health care system worse over the past year. Cameron Kilfoy, CBC News, St. John's.