{"id":610523,"date":"2026-04-17T16:07:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/610523\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:07:27","slug":"quebecs-new-premier-heads-to-ottawa-to-meet-mark-carney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/610523\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec’s new premier heads to Ottawa to meet Mark Carney"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Quebec’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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Christine Fr\u00e9chette’s office told The Canadian Press the premier is pleased Carney agreed to meet her on such short notice.<\/p>\n

The two are to discuss issues related to economic development, immigration, infrastructure, housing and the cost of living.<\/p>\n

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

Among Quebec’s demands from the federal government is a more equitable distribution of asylum seekers across the country.<\/p>\n

The province also wants the Carney government to intervene and help ensure a massive hydroelectric deal<\/a> is finalized with Newfoundland and Labrador. <\/p>\n

Later in the day, Fr\u00e9chette will return to Quebec and make a cost-of-living announcement in Laval. She has promised to make the economy a priority as she begins her tenure as premier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-610523","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\/610523","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=610523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}