{"id":872413,"date":"2026-08-26T18:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872413\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:44:10","slug":"former-pc-leader-calls-churchill-falls-deal-potentially-disastrous-path-for-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872413\/","title":{"rendered":"Former PC Leader Calls Churchill Falls Deal \u2018Potentially Disastrous Path\u2019 for Province"},"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\/Ches-Crosbie-Feb-18-2020-2-1.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Former PC Leader Calls Churchill Falls Deal 'Potentially Disastrous Path' for Province\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News 2020)<\/p>\n<p>A former PC Party leader warns that Newfoundland and Labrador is giving up its \u201ccrown jewel\u201d by signing a new deal on the Upper Churchill.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Ches Crosbie believes Premier Tony Wakeham has \u201cchosen a potentially disastrous path\u201d for the province. <\/p>\n<p>Crosbie, who calls the deal the \u201cmost important decision the province has faced since Confederation,\u201d accuses Wakeham of rushing into the deal without a proper independent review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes it make us the principal beneficiaries? That\u2019s the question. That is the test. How do we make an educated decision on that in a rush without proper expert review?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure that Tony Wakeham, as opposition leader, would have agreed we can\u2019t without a proper review. And I\u2019m calling on Tony Wakeham as Premier to see that this is the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News 2020) A former PC Party leader warns that Newfoundland and Labrador is giving up its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872414,"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-872413","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\/872413","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=872413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}