{"id":873333,"date":"2026-08-27T12:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873333\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:50:09","slug":"quebec-expected-to-call-general-election-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873333\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Expected to Call General Election Today"},"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\/christine-frenchette-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Quebec Expected to Call General Election Today\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quebec Premier Christine Frechette (CPAC)<\/p>\n<p>Quebec Premier Christine Fr\u00e9chette is expected to pay a visit to that province\u2019s Lieutenant-Governor today, officially kicking off the Quebec election. <\/p>\n<p>Normally a general election in our neighbouring province would only garner marginal political interest in Newfoundland and Labrador, but arguably, this election is different. <\/p>\n<p>Expect the Churchill Falls agreement announced in St. John\u2019s last week to be among that province\u2019s election issues. <\/p>\n<p>Some questions had previously been raised about the future of the agreement, should Quebeckers choose to elect a new provincial government. <\/p>\n<p>However the separatist Parti-Quebecois, which last week was leading in the polls, is not expected to put the deal, which has yet to be finalized, in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s separatist agenda also appears to have been put on the backburner for the time being given the uncertainty created by the current trade war with the United States. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Quebec Premier Christine Frechette (CPAC) Quebec Premier Christine Fr\u00e9chette is expected to pay a visit to that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-873333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","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\/873333","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=873333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}