REGINA — Saskatchewan Party MLA Roger Parent has died.
A government statement says the member for Saskatoon Meewasin died Tuesday night at the city's Royal University Hospital with family members by his side.
Word of his death comes about a day after Parent's wife, Sheila, revealed her husband had received an unexpected cancer diagnosis after feeling unwell, and that the disease was widespread.
Premier Brad Wall says in a statement that the death is a shock for everyone since the politician had only learned he had cancer in the past two weeks.
Parent was first elected as part of the governing Saskatchewan Party in 2011 and was re-elected in last spring's vote.
He was 63.
