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The provincial government has set December as "Celebration of the Oyster" month, in the wake of media reports calling into question the quality of Malpeque oysters, once considered among the world's best.

Last week, the province called together local media to showcase Malpeque oysters - complete with photo ops of Premier Robert Ghiz slurping them off the half shell.

While the Malpeque name still carries weight, the oyster's reputation took a hit recently when some prominent names in the oyster industry singled them out for criticism. Seventy per cent of the Malpeque oyster fishery is wild, and that causes some problems with quality. The shells can be long instead of round, making them difficult to shuck. Inside, they can be short on meat.

Wholesaler Jason Woodside said Malpeques just aren't that good any more, and he's seen it at recent events.

"[The Malpeques] were these tiny little dried up little cocktails, right next to these beautiful, big Blue Point oysters," said Woodside.

Too many fishing?

Having 675 licensed fishermen also poses problems. In previous years, less information was available about where the good fishing was. Fishermen tended to stick with particular beds, so beds producing well were not overfished. Clifford Bernard, head of the P.E.I. Shellfish Association, said that has changed.

"Now they have cellphones and GPSs, you know," said Bernard.

"One friend's one place, and another friend another place, and they say, 'Well, it's good fishing here.'"

PEI's fisheries minister has been meeting with industry to find ways to bring the bivalve's reputation back. One possibility is cutting back on the number of fishermen. Bernard believes some licences will have to be bought out to take pressure off the beds. But he doesn't want to see too many go, because these licences inject much-needed employment and money into the rural economy.

The industry was worth about $13 million last year.

Woodside said the industry needs to do more of what's happening in other jurisdictions: reduce the wild fishery in favour of cultivating oysters. That, he said, will allow for better quality control.

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SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. - Efforts by the federal government to stimulate the country's slumping economy must accelerate programs already announced and invest in projects being started by the provinces, the Atlantic premiers said Monday.

"Rather than creating some new national program that may take a year for the dollars to start flowing, there's an opportunity now to be flexible and to dovetail into our existing programs and allow that accelerated investment immediately," said New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham.

Prince Edward Island Premier Robert Ghiz, New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham, left, and Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald, right, share a laugh at the start of a news conference during a meeting of Atlantic premiers in Summerside, P.E.I., on Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

His comments came as three of the four Atlantic premiers wrapped up a one-day meeting in Summerside that focused on the state of the economy.

"Let's respond as quickly as we can," said Shawn Skinner, minister of innovation, trade and rural development for Newfoundland and Labrador.

"People need it. We need to restore confidence in our people, in our economies, and one of the best ways to do that is by governments investing in our infrastructure."

Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams was unable to attend the meeting because of a snow and wind storm that lashed the region.

Quebecers are heading to the polls Monday to vote in their second provincial election in as many years.

The Quebec Liberal Party, the Action Démocratique du Québec and the Parti Québécois all hope to form the next government.

Liberal Leader Jean Charest called a snap election this fall on the grounds he needs a majority to steer the province through the global financial crisis.

The ADQ is hoping to hold on to its unprecedented gains made in the 2007 election when it elected 41 members to the legislature and formed Quebec's official opposition. Two members crossed the floor to join the Liberals prior to the election call Nov. 5.

The PQ will be looking to win back sovereigntist supporters who turned their backs on the separatist party in the last election.

Both the Green party and upstart Québec Solidaire are banking on making a breakthrough and electing a member of the provincial legislature for the first time in history.

ADQ Leader Mario Dumont urged voters to cast their ballot even if they didn't want another election. "Not voting is rewarding the party that called this election," he said while campaigning in Thetford Mines on Sunday. "Abstaining is our worst enemy."

According to the province's election agency, 5,739,12 Quebecers are registered to vote. Nearly 12 per cent of registered voters cast their ballot in advance polls, up from 10.23 per cent in 2007.

Polling stations are open Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET.

Any Canadian citizen aged 18 and over who has lived in Quebec for more than six months can vote, as long as they are registered on the voters' list.

Michael Ignatieff, who enjoys the support of a majority of Grit MPs and senators, appears poised to become federal Liberal leader at a caucus meeting Wednesday when Stéphane Dion is expected to step down.

The prospect of a caucus vote installing Ontario MP Ignatieff in the top Liberal job emerged late Sunday after the party's national executive gave a rough reception to a last-minute proposal to give all party members a vote by a combination of phone and online ballots early next month.

No final decision was made but insiders said it appeared the proposal, supported by rival Bob Rae, will not fly.

Liberals are virtually unanimous that the leadership question must be settled quickly and well before a Jan. 27 budget vote that could plunge the country into another election or see the Harper Conservatives replaced by a coalition government.

If there is to be no nationwide vote by party members, a caucus vote is the only other option left to find a replacement for Dion, who is expected to resign Wednesday at the caucus meeting. Some Liberals speculated he may go as early as Monday.

Under the party constitution, as soon as the leader resigns, the national executive, in consultation with the caucus, can choose an interim leader.

Many Liberals now expect Ignatieff, a former Harvard professor, will be chosen Wednesday by caucus as interim leader - to be made permanent by a ratification vote at a previously scheduled May 2 leadership vote.

Ignatieff is also expected to get a boost Monday, picking up the support of the third leadership contender, New Brunswick MP Dominic LeBlanc, who is expected to drop out of the race and endorse Ignatieff. But top insiders in LeBlanc's camp continued to insist late Sunday that no final decision has been made.

Contenders agree party needs new leader before Jan. 26

Despite arguments over the best way to replace Dion, there was a consensus that the Liberal party needs a new, permanent leader before Parliament resumes on Jan. 26.

"We need to find a leader of the party before the House comes back at the end of January," leadership candidate Bob Rae told CBC News earlier Sunday."

On Thursday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper persuaded Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean to suspend Parliament and ward off the possible demise of his minority Conservative government.

That move came after the Liberals and NDP agreed to form a coalition headed by Dion and aimed at ousting Harper's government, which the opposition accused of failing to propose an adequate plan to deal with the economic crisis. The Bloc Québécois is not an official member of the coalition, but has agreed to support it on matters of confidence.

"Mr. Dion has indicated that as soon as a new leader is chosen, he will step down, and I think the party is obviously considering ways in which the leadership race can be moved forward," Rae said.

Ignatieff echoed the sentiment on CTV's Question Period on Sunday.

"There's an emerging feeling in the caucus that, given the importance of this [Jan. 27 budget] vote in late January, it would be appropriate to have a permanent leader in place," he said. "The caucus is considering various options about how to do that."

Manley urges party to choose new leader before Christmas

In an opinion piece in Saturday's Globe and Mail, former Liberal deputy prime minister John Manley said the Liberal caucus and party executive should move to choose a new leader before Christmas.

"As a Liberal, I believe the first step for my party is to replace Stéphane Dion as leader with someone whose first job is to rebuild the Liberal party, rather than leading a coalition with the NDP," Manley said.

Manley said the idea that the public would welcome Dion as prime minister after having rejected him during the Oct. 14 federal election "was delusional at best."

"Mr. Dion had seemed to accept responsibility for the defeat (although somewhat reluctantly), and should have left his post immediately" after the vote, wrote Manley, who is now a counsel at McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

"Furthermore, in agreeing to the terms of the coalition with the NDP and the Bloc, Mr. Dion bound his successor to a controversial arrangement without even consulting any of the candidates to succeed him in the process, leaving them no option but to endorse it or break with him as party leader."

Rae also said on Sunday that a closed-door decision by the Liberal caucus and party executives - both of which are top-heavy with Ignatieff supporters - wouldn't be the right way to choose a permanent leader.

"It can't simply be a small group of people behind closed doors," he said, adding it would be inappropriate.

Accelerated leadership race

Rae told CTV that an accelerated leadership race, including televised debates and a vote by rank-and-file members, could be organized with the goal of installing the winner "by the middle or third week of January."

If Dion should decide to step down before then, he said, it would be all right for the two bodies to select an interim leader to fill in while the process runs its course.

Last week, the Conservatives mounted a massive public relations campaign, including anti-Dion television and radio ads, contending that a leader whose party captured just 25 per cent of the vote in the Oct. 14 election doesn't have a legitimate mandate to govern.

Many Liberals acknowledge privately that Dion's continued presence as the public face of the party has complicated efforts to sell the idea of an alternative coalition government.

They point, as an example, to the embarrassing communications snafu last week in which Dion's team was an hour late delivering a videotape to broadcast outlets offering the Liberal response to a televised address by Harper.