The Capital Budget is a forecast of spending for infrastructure and capital projects such as roads and bridges, public buildings, and equipment. The operating budget is delivered each spring.
On November 4, 2025 Premier Rob Lantz and Finance Minister Jill Burridge, presented the Government of Prince Edward Island’s 2026-27 capital budget to the Legislative Assembly, outlining a five-year plan totaling $1.6 billion in infrastructure investments to support the province’s needs for today and into the future.
Health Care that Delivers
- Kings County Campus
- $132.2M over 5 years
- To create a modern health care campus, including a new hospital and a community health centre, designed to bring services together in one location and strengthen the delivery of care.
- Mental Health Campus
- $131M over 5 years
- To complete this keystone project to build a more responsive, encompassing and accessible mental health, addiction and substance use service for Islanders.
- Investing in Primary Care Access
- $22.9M over 5 years
- To continue transforming how we deliver primary care in this province, including developing a new community health centre as part of the Mental Health Campus, expanding a patient medical home in Central Queens County, renovating the Kensington primary care access clinic, and completing the Summerside community health centre.
- Modernizing Access to Health Care Information
- $21.7M over 5 years
- To provide Islanders with easier, streamlined access to their health information to securely share with their health care team.
- CT Scanners
- $11.9M over 5 years
- To purchase and install new CT scanners for Kings County Memorial Hospital and Western Hospital.
- QEH Refresh and Campus Redevelopment
- $102.3M over 5 years
- To invest $43.2M to upgrade, replace and strengthen critical building operations, and $59.1M to redevelop the QEH campus, creating additional space for non-acute care services and improving patient flow.
- Supporting Senior Care
- $14M over 5 years
- To meet growing demands, investments in long-term care and home supports will continue in targeted areas across the province.
Download the Health Care that Delivers Highlights PDF
Hospital infrastructure is being modernized to improve patient experiences and streamline services.
Education - Creating Places to Learn
- New Elementary Schools
- $65.4M over 5 years
- To build new elementary schools in East Royalty, West Royalty and Georgetown, addressing capacity needs and providing modern learning environments.
- New Summerside School
- $14.5M over 5 years
- To support design work beginning in 2028 for a new school, with construction scheduled for 2030.
- New and Expanded Intermediate Schools
- $133M over 5 years
- To serve fast-growing populations, including $109M for a new school in Stratford and $24M to expand Queen Charlotte with more learning spaces for students.
- New and Renovated High Schools
- $44M over 5 years
- To ensure ample modern educational spaces for the next generation, including $25M to complete work and open Stratford High School, and $19M to complete the first phase of renovations on Westisle.
- Securing French Language Education
- $92M over 5 years
- To support French language education and opportunities in the province, including $64M to replace Evangeline School in western PEI and $28M to expand École François Buote in Charlottetown.
- School Revitalization and Capital Repairs
- $36M over 5 years
- To ensure that aging schools receive the repairs and upgrades they need, including mobile classrooms to provide safe, supportive spaces as immediate relief to classroom pressures.
- Childhood Recreation Fund Increase
- $1.5M over 5 years
- To help communities create safe, active spaces at schools where Island children can play, move and belong.
Download the Education - Creating Places to Learn PDF
Communities - Investing in People and Places
- Roads, Bridges and Highways
- $296M over 5 years
- To maintain reliable infrastructure across the province, ensuring Islanders are kept connected and safe, and keeping our economy moving.
- Provincial Collections Storage Facility and Confederation Trail
- $4.9M over 5 years
- To support the preservation of human and natural heritage on PEI, and to highlight our heritage along the Confederation Trail.
- Protecting our Land
- $21.3M over 5 years
- To create safer and more resilient coastal highways and public infrastructure, investments are being made in shoreline protection, buffer zones and potato wart land buybacks, and other land protection acquisitions.
- Investment in Housing
- $128M over 5 years
- To provide $28M for upgrades and repairs to existing public housing, and $100M to build over 300 new affordable public units.
- Provincial Parks
- $9M over 5 years
- To improve and maintain high quality facilities, such as campsite expansions, to benefit all visitors.
- Subsea Power Cable
- $600K over 2 years
- To assist early planning for a new subsea power cable, which requires partnership with the federal government, to ensure our energy systems can support community growth.
Download the Communities - Investing in People and Places PDF
Commitment to infrastructure that moves PEI forward
Where can I find older budget documents?
Search Budget Archives for documents from 1998 to present.
Read the news release - Capital Budget 2026-27: moving the province forward, building with purpose
Contact:
Sara Watson
Telephone: 902-368-4201
Toll-free: 1-800-236-5196
Email: sdwatson@gov.pe.ca