Governance
COVID-19 Pandemic: Let’s Fasten Our Seat Belts!
The COVID-19 pandemic, with all its variants, has been the most prolonged and socially disruptive event for most of us in our lifetime. With 30,000 plus Canadian lives gone, many jobs lost, businesses suffering or foreclosed, and family or social networks upended, our parents or grandparents could only equate, or supersede the pandemic’s impact by…
Read MoreFinally, an Ombudsperson for Islanders, we hope.
The Ombudsperson Act was first introduced to the Prince Edward Island Legislature on December 15, 1998, by the then Leader of the Third Party (Island New Democrats), and voted down by the majority Binns government on May 25, 1999. Although the bill acquired support from the Liberal Official Opposition of the day, they failed to…
Read MoreOpposition Housing Outrage is Perplexing
On December 8, the outrage in the legislature by the official opposition over the missing $9 million unspent dollars on social housing made for some great theatre and political hay. During that sitting, the opposition protested the King government for failing to spend $9.4 million of last year’s allocation towards social housing, in exchange for…
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