Recent polls put Peter Bevan-Baker in the lead ahead of the province’s election on April 23
Prince Edward Island Green Leader Peter Bevan-Baker says he’s keen to make history as his party’s first Canadian premier.Prince Edward Island’s Green leader is contemplating making history – as the party’s first Canadian premier.Recent polls have put the Greens out in front, and Leader Peter Bevan-Baker believes his party can win a province that has only ever been governed by the Liberals or Tories.“That possibility is there.
A dentist by profession, he became his party’s first member of the P.E.I. legislature in 2015, following nine unsuccessful bids provincially and nationally for the party. “That sort of global movement away from conventional politics and unimaginative politicians, you see that expressed everywhere,” he said, citing recent elections in U.S. and Ontario as expressions of disgruntlement with conventional politics.“I think what’s happening on P.E.I. is a local expression of that global phenomenon,” he said.
But Liberal Premier Wade MacLauchlan has issued a caution about the Green party, saying the province’s future is too important to risk on uncertain expensive social experiments.Bevan-Baker said he’s not sure what MacLauchlan is referring to, but believes it could be his suggestion that P.E.I. would be a good place for a pilot program for a universal basic income. He said that would be expensive at first, but pay off in the long run.
The announcement includes a $4.5 million P.E.I. Worker Benefit to assist 12,600 low-income Islanders.The Liberals would also spend $750 million on infrastructure programs to improve roads, bridges and schools, with a focus on job creation. “It’s going to be an election based on the personalities of the leaders and people are going to vote according to whether they like or dislike the leaders of the parties,” Desserud said.“The Progressive Conservatives are rising in the polls. The Liberals are falling in the polls and the Greens are staying quite steady high in the polls. I think it all has to do with the leaders and how well they’re liked,” he said.
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