{"id":441151,"date":"2026-01-29T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/441151\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:12:07","slug":"wakeham-planning-to-have-one-on-one-with-legault-while-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/441151\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakeham Planning to Have One-on-One with Legault While in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/premier-talking.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Wakeham Planning to Have One-on-One with Legault While in Ottawa\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Premier Tony Wakeham at Premiers&#8217; Meeting (via CPAC)<\/p>\n<p>Premier Tony Wakeham has a meeting scheduled with outgoing Quebec Premier Francois Legault this week as he and his counterparts meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney in Ottawa. <\/p>\n<p>Wakeham addressed reporters yesterday ahead of today\u2019s meeting with the PM.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier was asked about the status of negotiations with Hydro Quebec on finalizing the MOU on the Upper Churchill. <\/p>\n<p>He says he won\u2019t prejudge the independent review process currently underway, but did say he has a meeting planned with Legault.  <\/p>\n<p>The future of the deal has come into doubt after Legault announced his intention to step down once a leader of his Coalition Avenir has been chosen to replace him in April. Quebec is facing a general election in the fall, and the separatist Parti Quebecois is currently leading in the polls. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Premier Tony Wakeham at Premiers&#8217; Meeting (via CPAC) Premier Tony Wakeham has a meeting scheduled with outgoing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-441151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441151","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=441151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}