Prince Edward Island election called for April 23
Prince Edward Islanders will be going to the polls on April 23, Premier Wade MacLauchlan announced Tuesday night.
“This is Prince Edward Island’s time,” he told a nomination meeting for a local candidate at a Charlottetown hotel. “This is a time to decide if we go forward.”
The Liberal government didn’t have to take voters to the polls until Oct. 7 under the province’s fixed-date election provisions, but there was an apparent desire to avoid overlap with the federal election this fall.
The interesting thing about this election, is PEI is the only area in Canada where the Greens are polling in 1st place.
The NDP is pretty much nonexistent in PEI (polling at 4%), so my hope is that the Greens do well. I’m hoping that the NDP do well too, but moving up from 4% support in less than a month is a tall order.
I can’t help but wonder how they will deal with the Northern Pulp pipe mess going into the Northhumberland Strait.