Changes
put CCF as original name of NDP
In 2006, provincial Gross Domestic Product was over $36 billion. Agriculture is still a large part of the economy and wheat has been its primary agricultural export, but many farmers are increasing production of canola. Manufacturing, mining, petroleum also make up over 20% of the economy. [[Mineral]] resources include world-class deposits of [[potash]] and [[uranium]] as evidenced by cities with names like ''Uranium City''.
Saskatchewan has been one of Canada's more left-leaning provinces, because of the largely rural population where many people work independently of large capital. In 1944 [[Tommy Douglas]] became the first overtly socialist premier of any regional (state or provincial) government in North America. The New Democratic Party, has originally named the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, was born out of Saskatchewan, and Douglas was it's first federal leader.
The 2006 population of Saskatchewan was 985,000 people. It's largest city is [[Saskatoon]] at 202,000, followed by [[Regina]], the provincial capital with 180,000 people. The cities then get much smaller with only two having more than 30,000 people; Prince Albert has 34,000 people while Moose Jaw has a population of 32,000.
