{"id":902509,"date":"2026-09-20T05:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902509\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T05:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:20:46","slug":"dealing-with-quebec-only-option-on-churchill-falls-says-financial-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902509\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing With Quebec \u2018Only Option\u2019 on Churchill Falls, says Financial Advisor"},"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\/09\/senior-wealth-advisor-with-short-financial-ia-private-wealth-larry-short.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Dealing With Quebec 'Only Option' on Churchill Falls, says Financial Advisor\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Short (Submitted)<\/p>\n<p>A local financial advisor is \u201ccutting the emotion\u201d from questions related to the new agreement reached with Quebec on Churchill Falls and future hydro development in Labrador. <\/p>\n<p>Larry Short of Short Financial, a division of iA Private Wealth, told VOCM Open Line with Brian Callahan that Newfoundland and Labrador has a trapped resource and dealing with Quebec on achieving that development was the only option.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/larry-short-short-financial--75209722\" data-resource=\"episode_id=75209722\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"200px\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"false\" data-playlist-continuous=\"false\" data-chapters-image=\"true\" data-episode-image-position=\"right\" data-hide-logo=\"false\" data-hide-likes=\"false\" data-hide-comments=\"false\" data-hide-sharing=\"false\" data-hide-download=\"true\" data-title=\"Larry Short - Short Financial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to \u201cLarry Short \u2013 Short Financial\u201d on Spreaker.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven in 2041, we still have to sell to Quebec. And that\u2019s what people are missing. There seems to be a belief that in 2041 we can renegotiate this contract with anybody, but we tried to find a way to use Quebec power lines in order to transmit through Quebec to customers in the United States and Ontario \u2013 we can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, that\u2019s going nowhere. Politically, Quebec\u2019s got 78 seats,  so even if Premier Wakeham became Prime Minister Wakeham tomorrow, he could not sway the political powers in this country in order to grant us those rights.\u201d     <\/p>\n<p>Short says hydro development will have an <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/08\/27\/308363\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">economic impact<\/a> on the province that will be equal to, if not <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/05\/11\/local-financial-advisor-optimistic-about-provinces-economic-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bigger<\/a> than, that of oil and gas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Larry Short (Submitted) A local financial advisor is \u201ccutting the emotion\u201d from questions related to the new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-902509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","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\/902509","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=902509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}