Day 14 of P.E.I. campaign: Land issues forum in Charlottetown
All the leaders spent time in their home districts Tuesday
Three of the four party leaders in the P.E.I. provincial election attended a forum to debate land preservation issues in Charlottetown Tuesday night, on Day 14 of the provincial election campaign.
Green Leader Peter Bevan-Baker, Progressive Conservative Leader Dennis King, and NDP Leader Joe Byrne were part of the forum, sponsored by the Coalition for the Protection of P.E.I. Lands at the Murchison Centre.
Bevan-Baker spent the day knocking on doors in his home District 17.
A Green government promised Tuesday in a news release it would spend $4.5 million to acquire land from 2020-2023 to establish a land bank to make land available and affordable to Island farmers.
King also worked the doorstep, visiting voters in his home District 15.
Byrne met with the P.E.I. Nurses' Union and spent time campaigning in his own District 12.
Liberal Leader Wade MacLauchlan met with fishermen at Covehead, and campaigned in his home District 8.
The Liberals announced Tuesday a new $2 million fund for community grants and a poverty action fund for non-governmental organizations with $250,000 for a volunteer enhancement program and $100,000 in new supports for firefighters.