{"id":30071,"date":"2014-10-31T00:05:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=30071"},"modified":"2014-10-31T00:05:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T16:05:57","slug":"jobs-not-human-rights-focus-of-chinese-trade-mission-couillard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/31\/jobs-not-human-rights-focus-of-chinese-trade-mission-couillard\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs, not human rights, focus of Chinese trade mission: Couillard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29365\" style=\"width: 688px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Philippe-Couillard-e1413728861933.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29365\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Philippe-Couillard-e1413728861933.jpg\" alt=\"Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard (Facebook photo)\" width=\"688\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Philippe-Couillard-e1413728861933.jpg 688w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Philippe-Couillard-e1413728861933-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BEIJING &#8212; Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard says he didn&#8217;t bring up the issue of human rights at all with his Chinese counterparts as a trade mission to that country wrapped up today.<\/p>\n<p>Couillard had earlier said he didn&#8217;t intend to lecture his hosts about human rights this week and admitted today he didn&#8217;t raise the topic on the trip.<\/p>\n<p>He says his goal was to promote jobs and investment and that there will be other opportunities to discuss human rights.<\/p>\n<p>He made the comments at a closing news conference in Beijing with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Prince Edward Island&#8217;s Robert Ghiz, who were also on the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Couillard became visibly irritated when asked later whether he abdicated his responsibilities by failing to discuss the rights issue.<\/p>\n<p>For her part, Wynne says she was able to convey to a Chinese official her opinions about people being able to express themselves freely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &#8212; Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard says he didn&#8217;t bring up the issue of human rights at all with his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":29365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30071","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=30071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}