{"id":742825,"date":"2026-06-17T13:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742825\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:40:11","slug":"premier-stresses-importance-of-marine-atlantic-service-as-province-seeks-to-intervene-in-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742825\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Stresses Importance of Marine Atlantic Service as Province Seeks to Intervene in Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\"Premier<\/p>\n

Premier Tony Wakeham (VOCM News)<\/p>\n

The province is seeking intervenor status <\/a>at a hearing on the designation of Marine Atlantic as an essential service. <\/p>\n

Unifor,<\/a> which argues that the designation is out of date, has applied to the Canada Industrial Relations Board to determine what services, if any, should be maintained in the event of a strike. <\/p>\n

Premier Tony Wakeham says the province respects the collective bargaining process but says Marine Atlantic is a vital link to the island and reducing service to three days a week would have a significant impact on residents. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just a ferry service; it\u2019s our Trans Canada Highway, and\u2026if the rest of Canada were told that their Trans Canada Highway was going to be closed potentially for four days a week, and it would only be open three days a week, I\u2019m sure that there\u2019d be chaos throughout the entire country. That\u2019s exactly what\u2019s being proposed here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Premier Tony Wakeham (VOCM News) The province is seeking intervenor status at a hearing on the designation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-742825","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\/742825","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=742825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}