{"id":34317,"date":"2019-03-06T09:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34317"},"modified":"2019-03-06T09:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:22:33","slug":"trudeau-crisis-deepens-as-second-minister-quits-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34317","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau: Crisis deepens as second minister quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A second high-profile minister has resigned from the cabinet of Canadian Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/11\/03\/americas\/justin-trudeau-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Trudeau<\/a>,  amid a corruption scandal that threatens to destabilize his government ahead of this year&#8217;s national election. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Jane Philpott, who had held several portfolios in Trudeau&#8217;s cabinet before becoming treasury board president, announced her decision to leave Monday. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a tweet she said had lost confidence in the government&#8217;s handling of an inquiry into allegations that officials linked to Trudeau had pressured a former minister to help Quebec-based construction company SNC-Lavalin avoid criminal prosecution. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A second high-profile minister has resigned from the cabinet of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, amid a corruption scandal that threatens to destabilize his government ahead of this year&#8217;s national election. Jane Philpott, who had held several portfolios in Trudeau&#8217;s cabinet before becoming treasury board president, announced her decision to leave Monday. In a tweet&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}