{"id":729605,"date":"2026-06-11T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/729605\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:03:09","slug":"expert-group-cautions-government-against-jumping-back-into-negotiations-with-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/729605\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Group Cautions Government Against Jumping Back into Negotiations with Quebec"},"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\/06\/churchill-falls-govt.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Expert Group Cautions Government Against Jumping Back into Negotiations with Quebec\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Churchill Falls (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)<\/p>\n<p>A group consisting of high-level executives, mostly from the public sector, is urging the provincial government to \u201cdo its homework\u201d and not rush back into negotiations with Quebec on the MOU.<\/p>\n<p>The group consists of former NL Hydro President and CEO Bill Wells, Des Sullivan, David Vardy, Cathy Beehan, and Gabe Gregory.<\/p>\n<p>In February, they submitted a report to the MOU review committee.<\/p>\n<p>The review committee\u2019s final report has since been released, and Gregory, who is a spokesperson for the group, says they reached many of the same conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory doesn\u2019t think there is any public evidence to suggest the province is prepared to head back to the table.<br \/>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>He says they would caution against government quickly jumping back into negotiations, noting there is lots of \u201cstrategic work\u201d that needs to be done to prepare. He says the issues that need to be addressed in the document aren\u2019t simple fixes; they are \u201cfundamental, major problems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Churchill Falls (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador) A group consisting of high-level executives, mostly from the public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-729605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729605","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=729605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}