20 corporations with ties to Irvings own more than 12,000 acres on P.E.I. [Video]

Four years ago, the P.E.I. government said it had ordered a corporation owned by a member of the Irving family, Red Fox Acres, to get rid of some of its land because of a contravention of P.E.I.’s Lands Protection Act.

It was only the second time the province had ordered a divestiture of land under the act, which came into effect in 1982. The first time, it was also the Irving family that was ordered to give up land.

Two years ago, the government said the Irvings were now in compliance with the act, even though land title records show the same corporation still owns the land in question today.

No information was shared with the public to explain what changed, or just how the Irving family had come into compliance with the act. In the legislature, the Green Party suggested the company had leased the land to another Irving-controlled corporation.

There are renewed calls for stricter enforcement of P.E.I.’s Lands Protection Act on …