Island NDP hosts its annual convention

Island New Democrats held their Annual Convention at Beaconsfield Carriage House in Charlottetown on Sunday.  Among the resolutions approved at the convention, New Democrats affirmed support for tenants, calling for an extension of the moratorium on renovictions, which expired on November 1st; as well as consideration of tenants’ wages and incomes in the determination of annual rent increase guidelines.  Leo Cheverie, a long-time Party activist who recently passed, was honoured with the establishment of the Leo Cheverie Labour and Advocacy Award which will be granted to an outstanding member at each future Annual Convention.