Bevan-Baker — who celebrated Tuesday’s election call by playing “First Call” on his trumpet at a nomination meeting — said he believes the time for the Green party has arrived. Bevan-Baker, 56, grew up in Scotland and immigrated to Canada in 1985, living in Newfoundland and then Ontario before settling in Prince Edward Island in 2003. “We’ve crafted a platform, that for perhaps the first time ever in Canada, a Green platform that might have to be implemented. But Liberal Premier Wade MacLauchlan has issued a caution about the Green party, saying the province’s future is too important to risk on uncertain expensive social experiments. “The Green party has been prudent in the way in which they have presented themselves and their policies and have appealed to the small ‘c’ conservatism of the Island.

Source: thestar March 27, 2019 19:07 UTC