North Shore municipal councillor resigns, 2 months after criminal harassment conviction

A community councillor representing P.E.I.'s Rural Municipality of North Shore has resigned, two months after he was convicted of criminal harassment. The timing of Robbie Moore's resignation has some people in the community questioning whether he should have stepped down sooner, given the rules laid out in P.E.I.'s Municipal Government Act. The act states that "a council member is disqualified from serving on council if convicted of an indictable offence" and that "a council member who is disqu