Peter Bevan-Baker

Who is Peter Bevan-Baker?

Peter Bevan-Baker is the leader of the Green Party of Prince Edward Island succeeding Sharon Labchuk. He previously stood as a candidate for the Green Party of Ontario and the Green Party of Canada. He is a dentist by profession as well as being an active writer, musician and public speaker.

He holds a Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Glasgow. He immigrated to Canada in 1985, living in Lewisporte, Newfoundland and then Brockville, Ontario before settling in Prince Edward Island in 2003. He became a Canadian citizen in 1992. He and his wife Ann live in an old farmhouse in Hampton, PEI and are the parents of four grown children.

Bevan-Baker joined the Green Party of Canada in 1992, and has run as a candidate for the Canadian House of Commons in the elections of 1993, 1997 and 2000 in the riding of Leeds/Grenville in Ontario, and 2008 and 2011 in Malpeque, PEI.

In 1997, he ran on a platform that advocated establishing a Genuine Progress Index. This was proposed to replace the Gross Domestic Product as the standard measure for assessing national progress with an index that gauged the health and well-being of people, communities and eco-systems.