{"id":45015,"date":"2015-03-18T02:53:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T18:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45015"},"modified":"2015-03-18T02:53:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T18:53:50","slug":"ndp-leader-shoots-down-harpers-comments-about-people-who-arm-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/18\/ndp-leader-shoots-down-harpers-comments-about-people-who-arm-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP leader shoots down Harper&#8217;s comments about people who arm themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45084\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/thomas-mulclair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45084\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/thomas-mulclair.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Mulclair (Facebook photo)\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Mulclair (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MONTREAL &#8212; NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair is calling Prime Minister Stephen Harper irresponsible for encouraging people to arm themselves if they live too far from a police station.<\/p>\n<p>Mulcair was referring to recent comments Harper made in Saskatoon where he was questioned at a meeting of rural municipal leaders about the government&#8217;s priorities in dealing with firearms.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister told the group his wife was from a rural area where gun ownership wasn&#8217;t just for the farm but also for a certain level of security when people are &#8220;a ways away&#8221; from immediate police assistance.<\/p>\n<p>During a visit to Montreal today, Mulcair accused Harper of trying to divide urban and rural Canadians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8212; NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair is calling Prime Minister Stephen Harper irresponsible for encouraging people to arm themselves if &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":45084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45015","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=45015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}