{"id":955772,"date":"2026-11-02T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955772\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:14:09","slug":"federal-finance-minister-stresses-importance-of-churchill-falls-to-national-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955772\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Finance Minister Stresses Importance of Churchill Falls to National Strategy"},"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\/11\/federal-finance-minister-francois-philippe-champagne.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Federal Finance Minister Stresses Importance of Churchill Falls to National Strategy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Finance Minister Francois Philippe Champagne (CPAC)<\/p>\n<p>With Ottawa just days away from delivering its budget, the federal finance minister gave mention to Churchill Falls while talking about projects that will help to \u201cbuild Canada\u201d during a speech in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the feds revealed the cover of their 2026 budget document \u2013 featuring the Churchill River.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>During a speech to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadianclub.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Club of Toronto<\/a>, Francois-Phillipe Champagne underscored the importance of Churchill Falls to job creation.<\/p>\n<p>He says Canada must \u201cbuild again, at speed and scale not seen in generations.\u201d He says the country is doing that, and lists Churchill Falls as an example of a \u201cpillar of growth\u201d that is being built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Federal Finance Minister Francois Philippe Champagne (CPAC) With Ottawa just days away from delivering its budget, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955773,"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-955772","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\/955772","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=955772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}