{"id":862953,"date":"2026-08-18T21:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862953\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T21:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:20:10","slug":"joyce-fears-federal-role-in-churchill-falls-deal-could-fuel-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862953\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Fears Federal Role in Churchill Falls Deal Could Fuel Division"},"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\/08\/eddie-joyce-house-of-assembly.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Joyce Fears Federal Role in Churchill Falls Deal Could Fuel Division\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Independent MHA for Bay of Islands fears that an increasingly polarized political landscape could create difficulties for the newly-announced Churchill Falls agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Tony Wakeham made it clear in his comments this week that the federal government\u2019s role was essential in bringing forward a collaborative agreement on the development.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Joyce told VOCM Open Line with Brian Callahan that his fear is that the Opposition Conservatives will use that approach\u00a0to foster division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the Prime Minister of Canada stepped in and said this is a national project and put in $10 billion dollars, you\u2019re going to start hearing the federal (Conservatives), right or wrong, start saying \u2018well how about between Alberta and British Columbia?&#8217;\u201d\u00a0 He says that could lead to discussion that Carney is giving things away. \u201cYou can see it starting right away,\u201d says Joyce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Independent MHA for Bay of Islands fears that an increasingly polarized political landscape could create difficulties&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-862953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","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\/862953","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=862953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}