{"id":42549,"date":"2015-02-16T23:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T15:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=42549"},"modified":"2015-02-16T23:08:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T15:08:02","slug":"harper-government-poised-to-introduce-legislation-to-end-cp-rail-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/16\/harper-government-poised-to-introduce-legislation-to-end-cp-rail-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper government poised to introduce legislation to end CP Rail strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42519\" style=\"width: 2816px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Canadian-Pacific-Railway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42519\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Canadian-Pacific-Railway.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian Pacific Railway (Wikipedia)\" width=\"2816\" height=\"2112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Canadian-Pacific-Railway.jpg 2816w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Canadian-Pacific-Railway-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Canadian-Pacific-Railway-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2816px) 100vw, 2816px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian Pacific Railway (Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The federal government is poised to get the Canadian Pacific Railway back on track.<\/p>\n<p>A government source tells The Canadian Press that legislation will be tabled today to end the strike by 3,300 locomotive engineers and other CP train workers.<\/p>\n<p>A notice to allow the bill to be introduced was placed on the Commons order paper late Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Harper government has never been shy about using a legislative hammer to stop or prevent strikes that it feels could pose a threat to the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The rail workers, represented by the Teamsters, walked off the job Sunday morning after contract talks failed to produce an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Teamsters President Douglas Finnson says the government&#8217;s intervention is disappointing and premature, but CP Rail supports the move.<\/p>\n<p>No new contract talks are scheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The federal government is poised to get the Canadian Pacific Railway back on track. A government source tells &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":42519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42549","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=42549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}