{"id":869878,"date":"2026-08-24T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/869878\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:30:09","slug":"quebec-urged-to-hike-u-s-power-rates-as-trump-threatens-new-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/869878\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec urged to hike U.S. power rates as Trump threatens new tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump lashed out at Canada and threatened new tariffs on Monday morning, as a Quebec opposition party said the province should use its hydroelectricity as leverage against the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the trade war escalates, the province should increase Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec electricity rates for exports, said Qu\u00e9bec solidaire co-spokesperson Ruba Ghazal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cQuebec can no longer be content with picking up the pieces and turning the other cheek,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump lashed out at Canada and threatened new tariffs on Monday morning, as a Quebec opposition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-869878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869878","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=869878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}