Brad Wall

Afternoon Keynote Speaker: Brad Wall served as the 14th Premier of Saskatchewan from 2007 to 2018 when he retired from public life.

During Wall’s time in office Saskatchewan added over 60,000 new jobs and broke population growth records welcoming over 160,000 new citizens through the decade. His government’s growth plan reformed labour legislation and regulatory environments to ensure fairness, sustainability and economic competitiveness.

 Record public investments were made in provincial infrastructure through direct provincial investment and record municipal funding roads, sewers, highways, schools and hospitals, long term care facilities and the new Mosaic Stadium. Wall’s government implemented record income tax reductions and reduced taxes on small businesses. During Wall’s time in office, Saskatchewan reduced its operating debt by almost $1 billion and earned its first ever AAA credit rating which it retains to this day. His last budget made the difficult choices to reduce Saskatchewan’s financial dependence on resource revenue and chart a course back to a balanced budget, recently tabled in the Legislature.

Wall currently operates his own business and is a special advisor to the national law firm Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt LLP. He is an itinerant columnist for the BOE Report and the National Post and was recently named to the Advisory Board of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

He and his wife Tami reside in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. They have three grown children and an aging Border Collie named Zeke. Wall may or may not own Waylon Jennings 1973 Cadillac Eldorado.

Wall was first elected to the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly in 1999 as the 
MLA for Swift Current. When he was elected he was working in local economic development and was operating his own seasonal tourism business.

Wall holds an Honours degree in Public Administration from the University of 
Saskatchewan.