Saskatchewan's Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety got a new name in conjunction with Thursday's cabinet shuffle.

It is now called the Ministry of Community Safety, and has a new minister at its head: Michael Weger.

He takes over that ministry, as well as responsibility for the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency, from Tim McLeod, who will stay in cabinet as justice minister.

The public safety agency has been the subject of criticism this year over its handling of the wildfire season, including by one of its own fire supervisors who said he became so frustrated that he quit .

But Premier Scott Moe said McLeod has served "extremely competently" and the change is about balancing the workload.

"It's an extremely large workload when you look at all of the files that

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