Green party leader tables Well-being Measurement Act

Green Party Leader Peter Bevan-Baker has introduced his first bill in the P.E.I. Legislature, an act that would measure the health of the province's people, environment and the protection of shared values.

Bevan-Baker tabled the Well-being Measurement Act in the P.E.I. Legislature on Tuesday.

He hopes the act will provide a new set of criteria other than economic gauges like gross domestic product to determine's the province's success.

"Most of the measures that I think we should be measuring are already there," said Bevan-Baker.

"We give a state of the environment report on a fairly regular basis, all of the other portfolios in government whether that be health and family services or justice or communities, land and environment they keep statistics on an awful lot of things, which are, indeed, good measurements of whether we're moving in the right direction."

Bevan-Baker said he will need to come to an agreement with the house leaders to find time to debate the bill.

He said he's also been talking to MLAs about his idea, and will be supplying them with documents to support the bill.