{"id":3496,"date":"2014-03-05T11:38:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T19:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3496"},"modified":"2014-03-05T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T19:38:49","slug":"federal-politicians-keep-wary-eye-open-mouths-shut-on-quebec-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/05\/federal-politicians-keep-wary-eye-open-mouths-shut-on-quebec-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal politicians keep wary eye open, mouths shut on Quebec election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA\u2014Federal politicians say they\u2019re keeping their noses out of the Quebec election campaign, even if they have an opinion on who shouldn\u2019t win.<\/p>\n<p>Parti Quebecois Premier Pauline Marois announced the next provincial election will be held on April 7.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Marois\u2019 commitment to Quebec sovereignty, Conservative cabinet minister Denis Lebel says the only time he\u2019ll intervene is to correct the record on his government\u2019s accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair also says he\u2019ll let the campaign unfold and neither he nor his MPs will meddle.<\/p>\n<p>But Mulcair is using the election call in Quebec as an opportunity to engage in a little campaign talk of his own.<\/p>\n<p>Mulcair says the NDP is doing the best job of selling Canada in Quebec, and would address a number of long-standing irritants he says the Tories have ignored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA\u2014Federal politicians say they\u2019re keeping their noses out of the Quebec election campaign, even if they have an opinion on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496","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=3496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}