The Premier of Prince Edward Island is the first minister for the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. They are the province's head of government and de facto chief executive.
The current Premier of Prince Edward Island is Robert Ghiz.
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“When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, “Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can” —and walked out of the room.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“Let’s go somewhere where we can be alone. Ah, there doesn’t seem to be anyone on this couch.”
—Irving Brecher, U.S. screenwriter, and Edward Buzzell. S. Quentin Quale (Groucho Marx)
““Our island home
Is far beyond the wave;we will no longer roam.””
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)