{"id":868322,"date":"2026-08-23T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T08:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868322\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T08:02:12","slug":"details-still-being-finalized-for-churchill-falls-debate-in-house-of-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868322\/","title":{"rendered":"Details Still Being Finalized for Churchill Falls Debate in House of Assembly"},"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\/07\/wakeham-at-the-airport-3.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Details Still Being Finalized for Churchill Falls Debate in House of Assembly\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The details on next month\u2019s debate in the House of Assembly are being worked on, but Premier Tony Wakeham says he\u2019s hoping to line up a series of experts for a \u201cfull and wholesome debate\u201d on a deal reached between this province and Quebec on replacing the 1969 Churchill Falls contract. <\/p>\n<p>The two opposition parties are calling for transparency, and want to see a host of experts available to allow MHAs to ask whatever questions they have. <\/p>\n<p>Four days had been set aside for debate on the 2024 MOU. <\/p>\n<p>Premier Wakeham says those details are currently being hammered out. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rules of that debate will be worked out between the house leaders and the House of Assembly and that work is ongoing as we speak.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) The details on next month\u2019s debate in the House of Assembly are being worked on,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829120,"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-868322","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\/868322","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=868322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}