Lee made the comments during an interview Sunday in the wake of Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea’s announcement Friday that both agencies will remain in Charlottetown.
Lee said moving the agencies would have cost the Canadian Government a pile of money and would have uprooted or left several employees living in Charlottetown unemployed, which means nobody would have really won had the decision been different.
“It makes perfectly good sense to keep the facility in he centre of the province,” Lee said.
It was speculated the agencies could possibly leave the city when the announcement came that they would vacate their present waterfront location to make way for a new convention centre.
Along with Charlottetown, Summerside, Souris, Georgetown and Borden-Carleton had all expressed interest in the DFO and coast guard operations before it was announced they would be staying put.
He spent months working on this file and spent a lot of time meeting with the stakeholders involved to ensure the decision would be made to keep operations in Charlottetown, Lee said.
