{"id":45222,"date":"2015-03-20T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45222"},"modified":"2015-03-20T00:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T16:00:32","slug":"scott-andrews-to-hold-news-conference-after-reports-say-liberals-will-expel-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/20\/scott-andrews-to-hold-news-conference-after-reports-say-liberals-will-expel-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Andrews to hold news conference after reports say Liberals will expel him"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45305\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/scott-andrews.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-45305 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/scott-andrews-e1426780823345.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Andrews (center; Facebook photo)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/scott-andrews-e1426780823345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/scott-andrews-e1426780823345-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Andrews (center; Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. &#8212; Newfoundland MP Scott Andrews will respond today after it was reported he will be expelled from the Liberal caucus over allegations of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>His constituency office says he has scheduled a news conference over the lunch hour in Conception Bay South.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is expected to announce today that both Andrews and Montreal MP Massimo Pacetti will be booted from the party&#8217;s caucus over the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Pacetti announced Wednesday that he won&#8217;t seek re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Both Pacetti and Andrews have maintained they did nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Wednesday, Andrews said he was astounded to learn through media reports that he was about to be expelled, adding that he has co-operated fully with an independent investigation into the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Party insiders have said the findings of that investigation won&#8217;t be made public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. &#8212; Newfoundland MP Scott Andrews will respond today after it was reported he will be expelled &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":45305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45222","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\/45222","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=45222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}