{"id":63193,"date":"2015-10-19T23:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T04:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=63193"},"modified":"2015-10-19T23:01:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T04:01:25","slug":"stephen-harper-to-step-down-as-conservative-leader-party-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/19\/stephen-harper-to-step-down-as-conservative-leader-party-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Harper to step down as Conservative leader, party says"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19813\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19813\" style=\"width: 691px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Stephen-Harper-in-the-Netherlands-3-e1427216561313.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19813\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Stephen-Harper-in-the-Netherlands-3-e1427216561313.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Harper (Facebook)\" width=\"691\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Stephen-Harper-in-the-Netherlands-3-e1427216561313.jpg 691w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Stephen-Harper-in-the-Netherlands-3-e1427216561313-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Harper (Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The Canadian Press has learned that Stephen Harper is poised to step down as Conservative party leader, but will stay on as an MP for Calgary Heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Party president John Walsh is expected to say that Harper has asked him to reach out to the new parliamentary caucus and request that they choose an interim leader.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh will also ask the party&#8217;s governing body to start the process of appointing a leadership organizing committee to set the groundrules for an impending race.<\/p>\n<p>A policy convention had been scheduled for this May in Vancouver, and that will need to be postponed.<\/p>\n<p>Harper&#8217;s departure will signal the beginning of a tumultuous time in the party &#8212; he has been the only leader of the organization formed in 2003 between the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties.<\/p>\n<p>More Coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The Canadian Press has learned that Stephen Harper is poised to step down as Conservative party leader, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63193","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\/63193","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=63193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}