{"id":34475,"date":"2019-03-07T06:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T06:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34475"},"modified":"2019-03-07T06:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T06:23:23","slug":"justin-trudeaus-political-scandal-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34475","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau&#8217;s political scandal explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A scandal is swirling around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/05\/americas\/justin-trudeau-cabinet-resignation-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau<\/a> and his Liberal Party. It could threaten the political future of the country&#8217;s leader and the rule of the Liberal Party, seven months ahead of national elections. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><strong>What happened?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Globe and Mail<\/a> reported on February 7 that Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former minister of justice and attorney general, had been pressured to help a Quebec-based construction company settle a criminal case and avoid a prosecution over allegations that it bribed officials in Libya for government contracts.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A scandal is swirling around Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party. It could threaten the political future of the country&#8217;s leader and the rule of the Liberal Party, seven months ahead of national elections. What happened?The Globe and Mail reported on February 7 that Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former minister of justice and&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-34475","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\/34475","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=34475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}