{"id":34323,"date":"2019-03-06T09:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34323"},"modified":"2019-03-06T09:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:22:46","slug":"canada-another-trudeau-minister-quits-over-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34323","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Another Trudeau minister quits over scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"56.1198003328\">\n<p>Canada&#8217;s prime minister is facing a deepening crisis over his government&#8217;s handling of a corruption inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Board President Jane Philpott is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/03\/major-blow-canada-pm-trudeau-minister-quits-190305004901305.html\">second powerful female minister to quit his cabinet<\/a> after former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould &#8211; who had been demoted to veterans affairs minister in January &#8211; resigned last month.<\/p>\n<p>The scandal centres on allegations that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/02\/canadian-opposition-leader-calls-trudeau-resign-190228113038516.html\"> Trudeau&#8217;s office had tried to pressure Wilson-Raybould<\/a> to help a Canadian engineering company avoid prosecution over claims it paid bribes to Libya&#8217;s former government.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Daniel Lak reports from Toronto.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s prime minister is facing a deepening crisis over his government&#8217;s handling of a corruption inquiry. Treasury Board President Jane Philpott is the second powerful female minister to quit his cabinet after former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould &#8211; who had been demoted to veterans affairs minister in January &#8211; resigned last month. The scandal centres&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34323","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=34323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}