With just days to go until Canadians head to the polls to vote in the federal election, candidates across P.E.I. are hitting the campaign trail in an effort to become — or remain — a member of Parliament. To make sense of who’s running for which party and where, CBC P.E.I. spoke to the candidates running in each of the province’s four ridings.
Our final trip is to Cardigan, where there will definitely be a new MP after voting day on Monday.
P.E.I.’s easternmost riding — which is also its largest in area and has the most voters, according to Elections Canada — means a lot of ground to cover for the six candidates. Three of them are running for the first time, while the other three have been on the ballot before.
This is also the only Island riding without an incumbent. Liberal MP Lawrence MacAulay did not reoffer …