Trish Altass, MLA Tyne Valley-Sherbrooke Official Opposition Critic for Health and Wellness Premier King, end of 2020: Mental health will be a big priority in 2021 Premier King, start of 2021: As our first order of business, we are closing the Psychiatric Urgent Care...
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Official Opposition announces changes in House leadership
Charlottetown, PE - The Office of the Official Opposition has made internal changes related to House leadership duties. Effective January 1, 2021, the Official Opposition House Leader will be Michele Beaton. Michele is MLA for District 5 Mermaid-Stratford. Also...
Sealing culverts is not a safe solution
Trish Altass, MLA Official Opposition Critic for Health and Wellness This year, it’s hard to know what kind of news story we are going to wake up to. There has been so much heartache and loss during 2020 that sometimes it can feel overwhelming. Some days it feels like...
Motion No. 89 – Calling on Government to make Mental Health and Addiction Services a priority
On Tuesday, November 17, 2020 MLA Trish Altass introduced a motion that called on government to make Mental Health and Addiction Services a priority. The motion passed unanimously. Read full text of Motion No. 89 - Calling on Government to make Mental Health and...
Motion No. 88 – Calling on Government to fund treatments available on the formulary for rare disease
On Thursday, November 12, 2020 MLA Trish Altass introduced a motion that called on government to implement a protocol to enable funding for treatments available on the formulary for rare diseases and to provide a more transparent and thoughtful response, justified by...
Hammers and Nails
By Trish Altass, Official Opposition Critic for Health and Wellness There is a saying that goes “when you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” The initiative announced by government this week to recruit Islanders in the fight against impaired driving...
Broken Promises Increase Despair
By Trish Altass, Official Opposition Health and Wellness Critic It should come as no surprise to anyone, especially anyone in public office, that mental health and addictions is a serious issue on PEI. Our office has heard countless heartbreaking stories of...
Statement regarding the ongoing closure of Unit 9
Statement by Trish Altass, Official Opposition Critic for Health and Wellness, regarding the ongoing closure of Unit 9 During the early days of this pandemic, government had to make decisions to keep Islanders safe using what little information they had about...
Official Opposition shares with government what it has heard from Islanders about RenewPEI
Overview The Official Opposition, with input from Islanders, has presented submissions to Renew PEI. The current pandemic and our necessary response have highlighted areas where families, seniors, women, youth, and children have either fallen through the cracks or...
Why is Lennon House only receiving pilot-level funding?
By Trish Altass, MLA District 23 Tyne Valley-Sherbrooke Official Opposition Critic for Health and Wellness The opening of Lennon House is wonderful news and a long time coming. Led by Dianne Young, who tragically lost her own son to addiction, Lennon House has been a...
Joint statement by MLAs Hannah Bell and Trish Altass on Premier King’s disparaging description of workers impacted by COVID-19
Joint statement by Hannah Bell, Official Opposition Critic for Economic Growth, and Trish Altass, Official Opposition Critic for Health and Wellness on Premier King’s disparaging description of workers impacted by COVID-19 We were dismayed to read Premier King has...
Is government considering all factors for safely opening our fisheries?
By Trish Altass, MLA District 23 Tyne Valley-Sherbrooke Official Opposition Critic for Fisheries and Communities In a CBC article last week, Premier King rightly criticized the federal government for a lack of action and direction on the opening of PEI fisheries. He...
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