Premier Wade MacLauchlan called an early election Tuesday night, announcing an April 23 vote that polls suggest could produce Canada’s first Green Party government. “This is Prince Edward Island’s time,” MacLauchlan told a nomination meeting for a local candidate at a Charlottetown hotel. We had a mandate and fulfilled it,” MacLauchlan told reporters when asked about the early call. “The Green Party is untested, and the future of our province is too important to risk on uncertain expensive social experiments, led by a career politician,” he said. “Prince Edward Island is working,” he told the enthusiastic partisan crowd.

Source: thestar March 27, 2019 00:23 UTC