Archive for October 31st, 2008
Current, former ministers summoned to talk about immigrant program
Liberal majority on the committee blocked Opposition Leader Olive Crane call former deputy ministers
The Guardian
TERESA WRIGHT
The current and former ministers of the department that oversaw the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) are being summoned to appear before the public accounts committee as it moves forward in an investigation of the program.
But the decision to call only Innovation Minister Richard Brown and former minister Mike Currie to appear before the committee was not unanimous.
In a move reminiscent of the 2005 Polar Foods inquiry, the Liberal majority on the committee blocked attempts by Opposition Leader Olive Crane Thursday to call the current and former deputy ministers of the department and bureaucrats who administered the Provincial Nominee Program to appear before the committee.
A similar situation happened in 2005 when public accounts was probing the Polar Foods controversy. The then-Conservative majority on the committee blocked the Liberal Opposition from calling shareholders of Polar Foods and top provincial bureaucrats to testify.
Wind energy plan will affect many
The Journal Pioneer
Editor,
I attended the recent monthly meeting of the Summerside City Council to support the opposition to the site selection of the proposed wind farm development in St. Eleanor’s.
I would like to inform those who live in these neighbourhoods you are going to be directly effected by this development.
Residents of North Drive and Decker Road will have 400-plus ft. wind turbine in their back yard. Residents of Gavin Estates may not yet have a turbine in our backyard, but we will hear and see the flicker from two of the four that are proposed – it will be louder than the noise from the highway.
