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Who oversees whom in P.E.I.?

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The Lantz government’s recent decision to make the deputy minister of energy simultaneously the CEO of the P.E.I. Energy Corporation should concern every Islander.

This is not about the qualifications of the person appointed. It is about basic principles of public-sector governance.

The P.E.I. Energy Corporation was established as a separate Crown corporation for a reason. Its board is supposed to oversee the corporation and its CEO, while the responsible government department advises the minister, establishes policy and holds the corporation accountable for its performance.

Those lines were already blurred by the longstanding practice of appointing deputy ministers to the corporation’s board, including having the deputy minister of the overseeing department serve as chair. A board cannot provide genuinely independent oversight when it is chaired by........

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