Sparks fly between premier, MLA at P.E.I. legislature
CTV
Premier Dennis King and MLA Peter Bevan-Baker had a heated exchanged at the P.E.I. legislature on Tuesday.
Things started off slowly in the Prince Edward Island Legislature Tuesday until former Green Party leader Peter Bevan-Baker rose with questions on two years of record extra-budget spending.
“The most open and transparent government has turned out to be the most closed and secretive,” said Bevan-Baker.
Premier Dennis King fired back at his former ally, saying he once had high hopes for the MLA.
“Certainly a shadow of himself compared to that today,” said King. “I had great hopes for the member from Borden-Kinkora to come in with a new attitude, but didn’t take him long to be bathed in the cesspool of negativity and nastiness that’s been going on with the Green Party.”
It was the support of Bevan-Baker’s Green opposition that kept King in power during his first minority government in 2019, but that solid public relationship seems to have soured.
“For all we know, politicians’ friends’ pockets are being lined, and millions of dollars, millions of dollars of islanders’ money is being wasted, because we don’t know,” said Bevan-Baker. “We don’t know.”
In the last election, the Greens lost six seats to the Tories.
A Toronto-area woman who was defrauded out of $158,000 in a roofing scam over the summer received about half her money back following a tip from a CTV News viewer.
It's official — Quebec has set a new record for the most stolen vehicles recovered in one year by Canadian border agents.
Facing criticism for requiring health care workers with two jobs within the public system to choose one to comply with labour laws, Santé Québec has announced a one-year extension to the transition period.
The consortium responsible for building Ottawa's new north-south line, TransitNext, says it is ready for the City of Ottawa to begin the final phase of approvals before opening the line to the public.
Former Saskatchewan Party MLA Greg Lawrence has been sentenced to 12 months probation – after pleading guilty to one count of assault.
Several thousand British Columbians remain in the dark Wednesday morning after a windstorm known as a bomb cyclone slammed coastal communities.
A man who plead guilty to a double stabbing in 2015 will soon be out on statutory release, but he'll have to follow some strict conditions set out by the parole board.
A school bus hit parked vehicles and pushed one into a Middle Sackville, N.S., home Wednesday afternoon.
A four-month-old baby is dead after what Toronto police are calling a “suspicious incident” at a Toronto Community Housing building in the city’s midtown area on Wednesday afternoon.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced embattled minister Randy Boissonnault is out of cabinet.
A London father and son they’re shocked and confused after their home was riddled with bullets while young children were sleeping inside.