Provincial Nominee Program: Conservative Opposition

Federal Immigration Dept: Ghiz came into the election campaign in early September as the strong favourite, with a comfortable lead in the polls and facing a Progressive Conservative opposition that was fielding only one incumbent. The Liberals held 24 of 27 seats at dissolution, with one seat vacant and one Tory incumbent not re-offering. An old scandal returns Olive Crane has hounded the government over PNP since the issue first arose in 2008, according to CBC. PNP was a longstanding issue for Progressive Conservative Leader Olive Crane. Since 2008 she had been hounding the government for a public inquiry in patronage in the program. The businesses of several MLAs, deputy ministers, and their families received investments through PNP. The issue had, however, all but died before the new allegations surfaced. A controversial hotel The polls in P.E.I.'s provincial election opened at 9 a.m. Monday, with Liberal Leader Robert Ghiz hoping to earn a second mandate and hold the government for another four years. The campaign took an abrupt turn towards the end of its second week, when federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney asked RCMP and Border Services Canada to look into allegations of bribery in the immigrant investor section of the Provincial Nominee Program. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.