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LETTER: The best MLA we never had

Contributed | Posted: Sept. 9, 2020, 1:16 p.m. | Updated: Sept. 9, 2020, 1:36 p.m. | 1 Min Read
NDP leader Joe Byrne speaks to members during the party’s convention in Summerside on Saturday. Byrne will stay on as party leader. Stu Neatby/THE GUARDIAN
Joe Byrne has stepped down as leader of the New Democratic Party of P.E.I. - Stu Neatby

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Joe Byrne has stepped down from leadership of the Island New Democrats after contributing much to the Party, and to Islanders. As leader of the Island New Democrats, he applied his diverse experience, from working with the poor in the Dominican Republic to driving instruction for Islanders. With his trilingual acumen (English, French and Spanish), he welcomed immigrants to the Island, and Canada with the Newcomers Association, and has worked with many Island progressive organizations to make life better in our province.

Joe led the New Democrats as a principled consensus builder, always open to the views of others in the development of policy and messaging to advance the well-being of Islanders. Given his record of caring and commitment, Joe Byrne is the best MLA the Island never had.

I join with the thousands of Islanders who have come to know Joe in wishing him, his wife Rosa, and their adult children Daniel and Claire all the best in all their future endeavours.


Herb Dickieson,
O’Leary

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Joe Byrne, party leader of the P.E.I., at a nomination meeting on Thursday night. Byrne will be the party’s candidate in Charlottetown-Victoria Park.

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