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LETTER: Islanders' distrust of IRAC justifiable

Special counsel to conduct investigation into Buddhists' PEI land holdings invited submissions with no terms of reference

IRAC, the Island’s self-proclaimed “independent” tribunal, has had an eventful 13 months. In February of 2025 then minister of housing, land and communities, Steven Myers, directed it to conduct an investigation under the LPA to determine whether Buddhist organizations, GEBIS and GWBI were contravening the act. Two months earlier, the same minister had requested IRAC provide him with their report on their investigation on the same groups, terminated in January of 2018.

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By October 2025, IRAC had not complied with Minister Myer’s request, and he had resigned from public service. There were no updates provided to the public on the recently launched inquiry despite questions asked in the legislative assembly. This led to the standing legislative committee on natural resources and environmental sustainability to subpoena IRAC to provide them with the report on the 2018........

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