Here's the story OP is referring to:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/sask-premier-plans-to-scrap-proof-of-vaccination-requirement-by-end-of-february-1.6334882
If that was my Premier I'd be having to give a long, hard look at if that was a province I wanted to live and do business in. We all hope to get back to normal and based on other regions there are encouraging signs that a version of that could await on the other side of Omicron. Rushing by a few extra weeks and making decisions to take on unnecessary risks with their wave still not expected to peak for a couple weeks (last I read?) and basing it on clearly iffy reasons from a public health standpoint would be hard to get past.
Series of tweets below from a well-known infectious disease physician in Regina that has been vocal during Covid caught my attention. Posting the first and last tweets because posting all 25 wouldn't be practical, but clicking on the first one ramps into the rest. Some really valuable thoughts to dissect some of the misinfo points we've seen floated online during especially this wave as far as vaccine efficacy by dose...
Ontario's Omicron wave is a reasonable amount ahead of Saskatchewan. I know they took their own lumps for how they did it, but I appreciated the way they announced their re-open intentions with several phases that gradually remove restritions and try to give confidence that they're balancing that re-open with public health considerations:
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-announces-three-step-plan-to-gradually-lift-covid-19-restrictions-1.5747444