Sparks fly between premier, MLA at P.E.I. legislature
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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.
