If the government changes hands this fall in Quebec, it could have profound meaning for Labrador \u2013 and the MOU for hydroelectric power development.<\/p>\n
The Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois has promised that if elected in October, it wants to reopen a century old debate about their borders.<\/p>\n
In 1927, the borders of Labrador were drawn to reflect what we know today and jurisdiction of that territory was given to the Dominion of Newfoundland.<\/p>\n
Prior to that, Labrador was essentially a sliver of coastline, with the rest of the Big Land considered part of Quebec.<\/p>\n
The PQ says that if an energy deal is struck with Newfoundland and Labrador over Churchill Falls, it wants compensation for Quebec\u2019s loss of Labrador.<\/p>\n
If this province and the current Quebec government want to make sure a deal is signed, it\u2019ll have to be finalized in the next month, before a Quebec general election is called.<\/p>\n
Catherine L\u00e9vesque, a political reporter with the National Post, published an article about the new PQ demands in yesterday\u2019s paper.<\/p>\n
She says an election is expected to be called by Premier Fr\u00e9chette in late August or early September, so a deal would have to be finalized by then. <\/p>\n
The Parti Quebecois is afraid that she will give too many concessions just to wrap it up quickly,\u201d says L\u00e9vesque. \u201cIf the PQ is elected in October, they might just look at it and say \u2018we\u2019re happy with the 1969 agreement and leave it in place\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the government changes hands this fall in Quebec, it could have profound meaning for Labrador \u2013 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,269876,185074,269873,66,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-821774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-science","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821774","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=821774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}