CA's MRSB partners connected with PNP investments and fees to study child care

Province may reduce day care funding by $2.9 million

In a question in the Legislature, Olive Crane leader of the Opposition asked if the Province would be leaving $2.9 in the childcare system.

This is a targeted amount that the province appears to be used to fund the new kindhearted program

Minister of Innovation Alan Campbell would not commit to leave the money in child care funding.

Campbell said the funding of child care is under evaluation. MRSB has received a tendered contract to study the issue.

Campbell said he has been in discussion with childcare organizations. He is awaiting the results of MRSB’s study.

“Are you committing the $2.9 will be there in the short term,” asked Crane.

Campbell would no commit to the funding.

MRSB is a PEI chartered accounting and consulting firm. The partners are Shaun MacIsaac, Everett Roche, Terry Soloman, Michelle Burge, and Lloyd Compton. PEI’s Auditor General was a former partner in the firm.

A cursory review of corporations, including numbered companies, on PEI shows a disproportionate number of MRSB partners and spouses received money from the PNP scandal. The firm is considered a close friend of the government.

One numbered company of an MRSB partner’s wife received PNP funds yet she is a practicing nurse with no active business. That would be against the rules but Islanders know the rules meant little.

Many people have asked how much the firm received in consulting fees to arrange the notorious PNP grants for others.

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