P.E.I.’s minister of justice says a corporation with ties to the Irving family is now in compliance with P.E.I.’s limits on land ownership, even though that corporation has not sold land acquired in a controversial transfer in 2019 after a divestiture order from the minister the following year.
Satisfaction remains high on P.E.I. with the governing Progressive Conservative Party and Premier Dennis King, a new poll by Narrative Research suggests.
A Liberal MLA wants P.E.I.’s government to use a new contingency fund to buy up all the fields where potato wart has been found in the last 22 years, and take them out of production. The Green Party made a similar suggestion earlier this week.