It might be small, but it when it comes to graft, Prince Edward Island plays in the big leagues: secret off-the-books committees, conflicts of interest run amok, public records mysteriously destroyed, a provincial government doing an end-run on the criminal code.
Inside PEI’s long, strange attempt to become Canada’s online gambling hub.
Featured in this episode: Robyn Doolittle (The Globe and Mail), Stu Neatby (The Guardian), Paul Maines.
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CORRECTION: PEI has two Green Party MLAs, not one, as stated in this episode.
This episode of COMMONS is sponsored by Endy and HelloFresh.
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