Highlights from the 2017 speech from the throne include:

Primary industries:

- Develop a food cluster to underline P.E.I. as Canada’s Food Island

- Invest in new product development and export for agriculture and fisheries

- Extend tourism marketing to key locations in U.S., Europe and Asia

Health:

- Suicide prevention strategy, developed by CMHA

- Children’s wellbeing report later this year

- Develop legislation for legal marijuana

Education:

- Review student assessments

- Strengthen collaboration with education advisory councils

- Implement recommendations of Child Protection Act review

Culture:

- Five-year plan for culture and creative industries

- New creative industry market development program to grow sector

Infrastructure:

- Capital budget with extensive spending in infrastructure renewal across P.E.I.

- New high-speed internet fibre network

- New housing strategy over the next year, starting with housing supply task force

Environment:

- Carbon pricing approach, details to be announced later

- Carbon mitigation strategy and carbon adaptation plan, coming early 2018

- Direct supports to encourage Islanders to shift to electricity consumption

Population:

- Further steps to maximize retention rates for new immigrants

- Seniors program to fund practical services like snow removal, housekeeping

- Poverty reduction strategy in 2018, starting with new advisory council

Transparency:

- Re-table lobbyist registry bill and whistleblower legislation

- New mandate letters for cabinet ministers

- Review and update Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act

- “Powerful” new open data platform

Electoral reform:

- Referendum legislation to hold new vote on electoral reform

- Create map showing how mixed-member proportional representation looks geographically

- Discussion document on political donation reform