{"id":89079,"date":"2017-02-12T18:17:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=89079"},"modified":"2017-02-12T18:17:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:17:51","slug":"ex-quebec-minister-will-run-to-replace-stephane-dion-in-montreal-riding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/12\/ex-quebec-minister-will-run-to-replace-stephane-dion-in-montreal-riding\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex Quebec minister will run to replace Stephane Dion in Montreal riding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89080\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89080\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture-1.png\" alt=\"James made the announcement on her Twitter account Sunday afternoon.  (@yolandejames\/ Twitter)\" width=\"639\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture-1.png 639w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture-1-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James made the announcement on her Twitter account Sunday afternoon. (@yolandejames\/ Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MONTREAL\u2014Ex-Quebec cabinet minister Yolande James will seek the federal Liberal nomination for an upcoming byelection in Stephane Dion&#8217;s old Montreal riding.<\/p>\n<p>James made the announcement on her Twitter account Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>James was immigration minister in Jean Charest&#8217;s Quebec cabinet between 2007 and 2010 and recently left her position as a political commentator for Radio-Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Dion quit politics recently and was then named ambassador to the European Union and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Tax law professor Marwah Rizqy and borough mayor Alan DeSousa have already confirmed their candidacies for the Liberals, while Francois Lambert, a former dragon on Quebec&#8217;s version of \u201cDragons&#8217; Den,\u201d \u00a0says he&#8217;s interested in running.<\/p>\n<p>The Saint-Laurent riding is considered a safe seat for the Liberals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL\u2014Ex-Quebec cabinet minister Yolande James will seek the federal Liberal nomination for an upcoming byelection in Stephane Dion&#8217;s old Montreal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":89080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,483],"tags":[5785,15080,15079],"class_list":["post-89079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","category-politics","tag-byelection","tag-liberal-nomination","tag-yolande-james","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89079","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=89079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}