{"id":195364,"date":"2025-10-07T15:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195364\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T15:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:16:12","slug":"quebec-premiers-governor-hold-news-conference-after-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195364\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec premiers, governor hold news conference after summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec Premier Francois Legault has been hosting Premier Doug Ford as well as the governors of N.Y., Mich., Wisc., and Penn. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Economic uncertainty caused by the Trump administration was the focus of a three-day summit of Great Lakes governors and premiers in Quebec City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ontario Premier Doug Ford took aim at U.S. President Donald Trump during Monday\u2019s closing news conference, saying the president should be more concerned about China than Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro said he respects Canadians and Canada\u2019s sovereignty, while Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, also a Democrat, said the uncertainty in Washington, D.C., is a problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Quebec Premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault said he told his counterparts that companies in the province want to get more heavily involved in sectors like defence, citing the Davie shipyard and Bombardier as examples.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The gathering included the governors of New York, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as delegation leaders from Ohio, Illinois, and Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This biennial meeting is the group\u2019s first since Trump returned to the White House in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 6, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quebec Premier Francois Legault has been hosting Premier Doug Ford as well as the governors of N.Y., Mich.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[45,49,48,46,295,47,714,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-195364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-national","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}