{"id":909465,"date":"2026-09-25T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909465\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:28:09","slug":"caq-leader-christine-frechette-warns-of-risk-of-u-s-interference-in-quebec-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909465\/","title":{"rendered":"CAQ Leader Christine Fr\u00e9chette warns of risk of U.S. interference in Quebec election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec&#8217;s incumbent premier says she is &#8220;very concerned&#8221; about possible interference in the provincial election by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec Leader Christine Fr\u00e9chette told journalists she reached out to Prime Minister Mark Carney and requested a meeting with him to discuss the matter.<\/p>\n<p>She was reacting to a news report published by Qu\u00e9becor media outlets that said American officials had attempted to negotiate directly with Quebec government officials regarding tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to ensure that the full truth about this issue comes to light,&#8221; Fr\u00e9chette said on the campaign trail. &#8220;[The election] must remain in the hands of and be decided by the people of Quebec.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s foreign affairs minister, Anita Anand, said at a news conference in Ottawa that the federal government is taking the issue very seriously.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Protecting our democracy is of the utmost importance to our country,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She added that she will speak with her American counterpart, Marco Rubio, after reviewing evidence of the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now I have not seen the evidence,&#8221; Anand said.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-909465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909465","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=909465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}