Prince Edward Island residents will go to the polls on April 3, thanks to an early election call Monday from Progressive Conservative Premier Dennis King.
King told supporters at a nomination meeting in his riding north of Charlottetown that he had visited Lt.-Gov. Antoinette Perry earlier in the day to dissolve the legislature — six months ahead of the province’s fixed election date.
He later told reporters he felt it was time for Islanders to have a say in the future direction of the province, after just under four years of his PC party’s leadership.
He dismissed the notion that calling an election six months early represented political opportunism, even though he has previously pledged to honour P.E.I.’s fixed election date….