{"id":222236,"date":"2019-07-09T20:31:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T00:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=222236"},"modified":"2019-07-09T20:31:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T00:31:29","slug":"former-prime-minister-chretien-hospitalized-in-hong-kong-with-a-kidney-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/09\/former-prime-minister-chretien-hospitalized-in-hong-kong-with-a-kidney-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Former prime minister Chretien hospitalized in Hong Kong with a kidney stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_222238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222238\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Chr\u00e9tien_Rise_Up_for_Canada_Rally.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-222238\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Chr\u00e9tien_Rise_Up_for_Canada_Rally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Chr\u00e9tien_Rise_Up_for_Canada_Rally.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Chr\u00e9tien_Rise_Up_for_Canada_Rally-768x415.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-222238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chretien, 85, was scheduled to speak at the U.S-China Trade and Economic Relations Forum in Hong Kong Tuesday. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=25251135\">File Photo By Michael Ignatieff &#8211; Toronto, ON Rise Up for Canada Rally \/\/ Ralliement Debout CanadaUploaded by Tholden28, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Former prime minister Jean Chretien is receiving treatment for a kidney stone in Hong Kong after falling ill there, says a spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Chretien has a kidney stone,\u201d said Bruce Hartley, a former executive assistant to Chretien. \u201cHe will return to Canada following treatment to remove it in Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chretien, 85, was scheduled to speak at the U.S-China Trade and Economic Relations Forum in Hong Kong Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Instead he was taken to hospital shortly after landing in the semi-independent Chinese territory Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Tung Chee-hwa, a former leader of the semi-independent Chinese territory, told attendees at the conference that Chretien would not be able to make it to the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to deliver an apology because Jean Chretien, the prime minister of Canada, he arrived here very late last night,\u201d Tung said, according to a transcript of his remarks. \u201cAnd we were supposed to have breakfast together. But he has not been well. And as a precaution, we have taken him to a hospital. We think it is going to be all right. So wish him all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chretien was prime minister from 1993 to 2003. Expanding trade with China was a theme in Chretien&#8217;s time in office and he&#8217;s continued working on business links between China and North America since he went back to private life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Former prime minister Jean Chretien is receiving treatment for a kidney stone in Hong Kong after falling ill &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":222238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-mia-rabson","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222239,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222236\/revisions\/222239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}