Green party Leader Peter Bevan-Baker speaks at an event at his campaign office in Clyde River on March 23. The Greens released their full platform, which contains $151 million in operational spending in the first year of a Green government. - Stu Neatby/SaltWire NetworkCLYDE RIVER, P.E.I. — P.E.I. Green Leader Peter Bevan-Baker says his party’s platform will address the province’s challenges in health care, housing and climate change.
In a speech March 23 to party supporters at his campaign office in Clyde River, Bevan-Baker said the party’s platform assumes that a first Green budget would be a deficit budget. Green party Leader Peter Bevan-Baker speaks at an event at his campaign office in Clyde River on March 23. The Greens released their full platform, which contains $151 million in operational spending in the first year of a Green government. - Stu Neatby/SaltWire Network
A campaign representative clarified this commitment would include a previous $135-million capital budget commitment by the incumbent Progressive Conservative government for public housing builds.Here are the key commitments of the Green platform:Make Health P.E.I. an independent crown corporation and remove “political interference.”Expand the scope of practice for nurse practitioners; allow physician assistants to work in P.E.I.Reopen psychiatric urgent care clinics in Charlottetown.