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I take issue with Nunavut, Nwt and Yukon, and PEI. Watch the video below if you want to know why.

Walker Smith

Seditious Times

P.E.I. Sits Back and Relaxes

Despite high expectations, the province of P.E.I. had little to say at today’s agenda meeting. While banter between most of the provinces resulted in a decision on the topics to be discussed at the upcoming First Minister’s Conference, P.E.I. remained surprisingly silent. Even the small delegations from the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Nunavut had something to say about the proposed topics.

That is not to say that P.E.I. had no opinion. Struggling through their proposals, the province suggested financing for sustainable resources and the health care system to be matters of great importance to not only their small island, but for the greater Canadian community. Funding could provide the means for much needed research into sustainable energies including, but limited to, wind, tidal, solar, wave, geo-thermal and nuclear power. The funding would also result in job creation which would insulate the economy and increase the financial sovereignty of the country.

Funding to health care is important to the province so that nurses and doctors can benefit through pay increases. This use was not an issue brought up by any other delegation. Funding could also be used to research new technologies in the health care field, a matter much more likely to draw national attention.

When delegates from the province finally did speak up, they claimed health care, the economy and environmental issues are all intertwined. Maybe so, but each topic deserves to be discussed without the superposition of another. Alberta delegates expressed the concern that the economic crisis would be clouded if discussed in relation to the environment. Tom Posyniak said “the immediate economic situation is not related to the environment.”

P.E.I. will have to speak up at next week’s agenda meeting in order to impress their ideas on the other delegations.

Ariane Fleischmann, The Seditious Times