Premier Announces Opening of Legislative Assembly

Premier Pat Binns announced today that the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly will open on Wednesday, November 16.

The Third Session of the 62nd General Assembly will begin at 3 p.m. with the reading of the Speech from the Throne by the Honourable J. Léonce Bernard, Lieutenant Governor.

In recognition of 2005 being the Year of the Veteran, Premier Binns has asked the Speaker to give special consideration to these important men and women on the day of the House opening. The Premier has requested that the Speaker Deighan invite members of the Island veterans community and Island Legions to sit on the floor of the Assembly and in the Public Gallery for the reading of the Speech From the Throne.