The new premier of Newfoundland and Labrador announced that the review of the draft energy agreement with Hydro-Québec will begin within a few weeks.

Tony Wakeham was sworn in on Wednesday, following his party, the Progressive Conservative Party’s, narrow victory in this month’s provincial election. The election ended ten years of Liberal government.

Wakeham told reporters that he and his new cabinet would discuss over the next two weeks who would be involved in the review and what it would contain.

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