{"id":609926,"date":"2026-04-17T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609926\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:28:10","slug":"new-quebec-premier-christine-frechette-to-meet-prime-minister-carney-today-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609926\/","title":{"rendered":"New Quebec Premier Christine Fr\u00e9chette to meet Prime Minister Carney today in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Quebec&#8217;s new premier is set to meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney this morning in Ottawa, less than 48 hours after she was sworn into office.<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Quebec&#8217;s new premier is set to meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney this morning in Ottawa, less than 48 hours after she was sworn into office.<\/p>\n<p>Christine Fr\u00e9chette&#8217;s office told The Canadian Press the premier is pleased Carney agreed to meet her on such short notice.<\/p>\n<p>The two are to discuss issues related to economic development, immigration, infrastructure, housing and the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>With less than six months ahead of the provincial election, Fr\u00e9chette is looking to demonstrate her brand of nationalism can secure gains from Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Among Quebec&#8217;s demands from the federal government is a more equitable distribution of asylum seekers across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The province also wants the Carney government to intervene and help ensure a massive hydroelectric deal is finalized with Newfoundland and Labrador.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Quebec&#8217;s new premier is set to meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney this morning in Ottawa,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-609926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609926","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=609926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}