Posts by NDP PEI
Pay Up Premier King
New Democrats are calling on Premier King to pay up for the hundreds of health care workers he is excluding with his $2500 top up. “Our Island health care workers protected us during the pandemic and the fact that some health care workers are getting top up pay over others is simply wrong,” says Neill.…
Read MoreKing Must Reveal Plan To Fix the Health Care Crisis: Neill
(Charlottetown) July 18, 2022: Michelle Neill, Leader of the Island New Democrats, would like to remind Premier Dennis King that, although there are new members added to his cabinet, the health care system is on the brink of collapse. “Day in and day out, Islanders are telling me their stories about the health care system. People can’t get…
Read MoreOur statement on the future of childcare services on PEI
Prince Edward Island needs a publicly operated and managed childcare system. Families have been struggling with lack of local access, unaffordability and haphazard standards and programming in childcare services for too long. PEI is receiving $121.3 million from Ottawa to develop our childcare system, to be used predominantly to support not-for-profit public early learning childcare…
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