{"id":88866,"date":"2017-02-10T21:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T02:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88866"},"modified":"2017-02-10T21:45:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T02:45:20","slug":"pm-cites-leitch-fringe-voices-when-questioned-on-electoral-reform-pivot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/10\/pm-cites-leitch-fringe-voices-when-questioned-on-electoral-reform-pivot\/","title":{"rendered":"PM cites Leitch, fringe voices when questioned on electoral reform pivot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_88858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88858\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/KellieLeitch2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88858\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/KellieLeitch2014.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggests one of the reasons he abandoned his 2015 campaign pledge on electoral reform was due to concerns over parties representing fringe voices, noting Kellie Leitch's push to lead the Conservative party.  (Photo by manningcentre (Flickr: Manning Centre party 2014 1134) [CC BY 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)]\" width=\"372\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/KellieLeitch2014.jpg 372w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/KellieLeitch2014-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggests one of the reasons he abandoned his 2015 campaign pledge on electoral reform was due to concerns over parties representing fringe voices, noting Kellie Leitch&#8217;s push to lead the Conservative party. (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AKellieLeitch2014.jpg\"> manningcentre (Flickr: Manning Centre party 2014 1134) [CC BY 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>IQALUIT, Nunavut\u2014Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggests one of the reasons he abandoned his 2015 campaign pledge on electoral reform was due to concerns over parties representing fringe voices, noting Kellie Leitch&#8217;s push to lead the Conservative party.<\/p>\n<p>In remarks picked up on a boom microphone by pooled television networks, Trudeau asked a woman at an Iqaluit event if she thinks Leitch should have her own party.<\/p>\n<p>The woman suggested that was a different conversation and Trudeau insisted it was not.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau says it is important to listen to all voices as opposed to amplify small ones.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister suggests improvements could have been made to the country&#8217;s current electoral system but proportional representation wasn&#8217;t the solution.<\/p>\n<p>He also says the federal New Democrats were locked into proportional representation \u201cno matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IQALUIT, Nunavut\u2014Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggests one of the reasons he abandoned his 2015 campaign pledge on electoral reform was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":88858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[3070,12125],"class_list":["post-88866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-kellie-leitch","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88866","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=88866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}