In the early days of the campaign the parties are trying to establish their own agenda, to find the issue that will move people to vote for them.
What do you believe is the most important issue for Prince Edward Island in this election, and what position do the parties need to take to win your vote?
With peanut butter out because of deadly allergies, and the recall on luncheon meats expanding, what are you packing for your children to take to school for lunch?
This is your place to show your support for P.E.I.'s Olympians: Kara Grant and Jared Connaughton.
The P.E.I. government will be taking about a third of its school buses off the road immediately, and pulling the rest on Thursday and Friday after routine inspections found problems in some of the vehicles, the province announced Wednesday.
The decision affects thousands of schoolchildren.
The routine inspections on 20 buses revealed "structural deficiencies" in 16 of them, the government said. Those buses were made in 1994 or earlier.
The movement of people from the country to the city is a worldwide trend. With making a living from farming and fishing on P.E.I. becoming increasingly difficult, Island rural areas are suffering like any other. How has living in rural P.E.I. changed for you?
P.E.I.'s Liberal government has appointed six new people to the Workers Compensation Appeal Tribunal, each of them with ties to the Liberal party.
Some of the appointments were apparently made without going through the Participate in P.E.I. program, which was set up by the new Liberal government to give all Islanders an opportunity to compete for such positions.
The program was part of Premier Robert Ghiz's plan to take patronage out of the appointment process for the Island's 75 boards and commissions.
P.E.I.'s hog processing plant is in receivership and facing an uncertain future. The beef processing plant had some good news in December, when the three Maritime provinces and federal government promised money, but that money has not yet been delivered as it appears the plant is having difficulty meeting conditions attached to it.
If the processors go, can the producers be far behind?
Producers are having problems beyond the troubles at the processing plants. Prices for hogs have been below the cost of production for years, and many farmers are simply giving up. In 2002, there were about 400 hog farmers on the Island. Current estimates are around 75.
Beef prices are also low, and many fear beef producers will soon start dropping off at the same rate as hog farmers.
The group that represents daycare owners on P.E.I. is defending its call for a freeze on new daycare licences.
Early Learning Operators of P.E.I. told CBC News Monday there are too many daycares with empty spots, and daycare workers are difficult to keep. Group chair Lynn Hogan said limiting the number of centres will improve their quality.
"We're hoping, instead of every centre having one good early childhood educator, then if there was less centres then you would have more of a pool to pick from. So maybe I could have two or three really strong childhood educators," said Hogan.
With government attention focused on the crisis in the livestock industry, Agriculture Minister Neil LeClair says there has been no time to look at the planting of genetically modified crops on P.E.I.
Hundreds more hectares of genetically modified corn and sugarbeets will be planted on the Island this spring. Last week, Danny Hendricken, district director for the National Farmers Union, said the window of opportunity for making the Island GMO-free was closing.
In an e-mail to CBC News Friday, LeClair said the government is interested in revisiting the issue, but has been too busy with other agriculture issues.
Following a crash last weekend that killed seven students and a teacher in New Brunswick, P.E.I.'s Eastern School District might stop renting 15-passenger vans.
Since the accident, the safety record of the vans has come under close scrutiny. Critics say the vans, when loaded, have a centre of gravity that is too high and too far back, increasing the risk they will fishtail and roll over.
"The fact that we've got other constituencies, like in Nova Scotia, who don't use them anymore is perhaps an indication that perhaps they're not as safe as we assumed that they were," Eastern School District superintendent Sandy MacDonald told CBC News Tuesday.
"What we basically want, if we can find that, is a safer way to transport our students than it seems that these 15-seat vans offer."
Education Minister Gerard Greenan said the province has no plans to ban the vehicle for transporting students.
"The issue, with regard to the banning of these vehicles, is not something that we are looking at right now," said Greenan.
