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UPDATE ON OUR MEETING WITH LANDS AND ENVIRONMENT MINISTER, DARLENE COMPTON Our coalition met with Lands Minister, Darlene Compton yesterday to share our many serious concerns about IRAC, not only its handling of the present investigation, but of it’s poor track record with land protection in the province

UPDATE ON OUR MEETING WITH LANDS AND ENVIRONMENT MINISTER, DARLENE COMPTON

Our coalition met with Lands Minister, Darlene Compton yesterday to share our many serious concerns about IRAC, not only its handling of the present investigation, but of it’s poor track record with land protection in the province. We found her to be, if not entirely receptive, not dismissive either, about our concerns. She stressed the fact that she is new in this role and is taking the matter very seriously, considering the many concerns raised by the taxpayers of PEI. It sounded like she is indeed considering the possibility of a public inquiry, but is not ready to take that step just yet.

We shared our petition complete with 920 signatures and 275 comments. She did also point out that although she is the Minister in charge of land, it is the Minister of Education, Robin Croucher who is in charge of the IRAC investigation. Let that sink in. We asked that she share the petition and our concerns with Minister Croucher. If you have similar concerns and want to let either of these Ministers, or perhaps the Premier know about them, here are their email addresses.

Minister Darlene Compton: dcomptonmla@assembly.pe.ca
Minister Robin Croucher: rdcrouchermla@assembly.pe.ca
Premier Rob Lantz: rblantzminister@gov.pe.ca

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https://www.peicanada.com/island_farmer/silencing-of-the-land-topic-for-coalition-forum/article_377a8576-c754-11ee-b125-eb0a0b7d3ad0.html#tncms-source=block-contextual

F O R I M M E D I A T E R E L E A S E Independent Review of IRAC releases Final Report CHARLOTTETOWN, PE, November 1, 2026

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Thanks to Chris Ortenburger for sharing this article in her Citizens’ Alliance newsletter this morning, along with these comments: “There is so much in that interview that brings up more questions for the Minister and Premier: must all land be in “production”? where is good Land Use Planning? (notice that may not be the same as Where is the Land Use Plan? ;-) where is the IRAC report on the Kings County land holdings that former Environment and former Lands and Community minister Stephen Myers set in motion? Why can’t the Land Department keep track of land? Why have IRAC in charge of this when her government has announced it is set to break up IRAC and there will certainly be a lot of transition? And things not addressed here: What about non-profit land protection organizations like Island Nature Trust? (this has been addressed elsewhere with a wave of the hand, but it would be good if the minister recognised this clearly) Why are agriculture giants not addressed, but non-profits? How easy will it be to work around this law? Have they thought that far in the future? This also feels like a use of a lot of government legislative writing time that could be spent on other promised legislation

Thanks to Chris Ortenburger for sharing this article in her Citizens’ Alliance newsletter this morning, along with these comments: “There is so much in that