{"id":900979,"date":"2026-09-18T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/900979\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T23:08:10","slug":"trade-war-with-u-s-putting-30000-quebec-jobs-at-risk-frechette-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/900979\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade war with U.S. putting 30,000 Quebec jobs at risk, Fr\u00e9chette says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">STE-MARIE \u2014 The Quebec government estimates 60 companies employing 30,000 workers are threatened by the trade war with the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the number of jobs that could actually be lost would be lower than 30,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After being asked for the number several times in the last few days, including in <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/quebec-elections\/caq-was-not-perfect-frechette-says-in-second-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tuesday\u2019s TVA debate<\/a>, Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec leader and incumbent premier Christine Fr\u00e9chette produced one Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STE-MARIE \u2014 The Quebec government estimates 60 companies employing 30,000 workers are threatened by the trade war with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,218342,46,120789,197017],"class_list":["post-900979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-coalition-avenir-quebec-caq","tag-economy","tag-quebec-elections","tag-quebec-liberal-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900979","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=900979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}