Dominic LeBlanc acknowledged that the process has taken longer than expected, but indicated an announcement is due shortly
PEI Premier Dennis King sought to distance himself from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Monday. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of his meetings with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Progressive Conservative Premier said he won’t campaign federally while holding office provincially and he isn’t aligned with either the Liberals or Conservatives.
“I think we would find comfort with both to a certain degree. I think there are extreme levels in both parties, which I think might be a little foreign to the day-to-day politics on Prince Edward Island to be quite honest,” Mr. King said, not elaborating on what he considered an extreme element in either party.
“Let me say that most political parties in Prince Edward Island would hug the centre,” he said. “It wouldn’t be good politics for any political party to advance to one extreme to the other.” Mr. King is not the only premier to take an arm’s length approach to his federal cousins. Mr. Poilievre already has a somewhatThe PEI Premier has come out against the federal government’s new clean-fuel regulation, which added another cost to fuel prices in addition to the federal carbon tax, but he told reporters that doesn’t mean he’s aligned with Mr. Poilievre, who is holding “axe the tax” rallies across Canada as he campaigns against the federal carbon tax.
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