{"id":85601,"date":"2017-01-17T19:36:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T00:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85601"},"modified":"2017-01-17T19:36:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T00:36:53","slug":"french-language-conservative-leadership-debate-underway-in-quebec-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/17\/french-language-conservative-leadership-debate-underway-in-quebec-city\/","title":{"rendered":"French language Conservative leadership debate underway in Quebec City"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85602\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16107557_10154967333734204_7606775740297670200_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85602\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16107557_10154967333734204_7606775740297670200_o.jpg\" alt=\"The French-language Conservative leadership debate (Pictured)  is underway in Quebec City with all 13 hopefuls trying to cement their credentials ahead of the vote in May. (Photo: Conservative Party of Canada - Parti conservateur du Canada \/ Facebook)\" width=\"720\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16107557_10154967333734204_7606775740297670200_o.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16107557_10154967333734204_7606775740297670200_o-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The French-language Conservative leadership debate (Pictured) is underway in Quebec City with all 13 hopefuls trying to cement their credentials ahead of the vote in May. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cpcpcc\">Conservative Party of Canada &#8211; Parti <\/a>conservateur du Canada \/ Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>QUEBEC \u2013The French-language Conservative leadership debate is underway in Quebec City with all 13 hopefuls trying to cement their credentials ahead of the vote in May.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the 13 read a 30-second opening statement with varying degrees of proficiency in French.<\/p>\n<p>Francophone MPs Maxime Bernier and Steven Blaney were the most fluent in their deliveries, while some of the other candidates struggled in their heavily accented French.<\/p>\n<p>The debate began amid rumours celebrity businessman Kevin O&#8217;Leary will finally launch his campaign Wednesday afternoon in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Leary, who does not speak French but is taking lessons, says he&#8217;s \u201cgetting frustrated\u201d with how many candidates are still in the running.<\/p>\n<p>He says the crowded field has reduced the debates to \u201cjust a bunch of sound bites.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUEBEC \u2013The French-language Conservative leadership debate is underway in Quebec City with all 13 hopefuls trying to cement their credentials &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[13803,13802,13804,6869],"class_list":["post-85601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-conservative-leadership","tag-french-language","tag-maxime-bernier","tag-steven-blaney","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85601","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}