{"id":89082,"date":"2017-02-12T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=89082"},"modified":"2017-02-12T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:30:17","slug":"new-democrat-mp-peter-julian-launches-leadership-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/12\/new-democrat-mp-peter-julian-launches-leadership-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"New Democrat MP Peter Julian launches leadership bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89083\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14715504_10154640598113624_1078529649311135045_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89083\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14715504_10154640598113624_1078529649311135045_o.jpg\" alt=\"Julian says \u201cregular folks\u201d need to be the government' priority, not the rich and well-connected (Photo: Peter Julian\/ Facebook)\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14715504_10154640598113624_1078529649311135045_o.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14715504_10154640598113624_1078529649311135045_o-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julian says \u201cregular folks\u201d need to be the government&#8217; priority, not the rich and well-connected (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MPPeterJulian\">Peter Julian\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2013British Columbia MP Peter Julian has launched his bid to become the next leader of the federal NDP.<\/p>\n<p>He made the announcement in his riding of New Westminster, B.C. today, becoming the first official candidate in the race to replace Tom Mulcair in October.<\/p>\n<p>Julian says \u201cregular folks\u201d need to be the government&#8217; priority, not the rich and well-connected<\/p>\n<p>Quebec MP Guy Caron announced this morning that he is stepping aside as the party&#8217;s finance critic to consider a leadership bid.<\/p>\n<p>Other possible contenders include Ontario MP Charlie Angus, Manitoba MP Niki Ashton and Ontario deputy NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.<\/p>\n<p>A leadership debate is scheduled on March 12 in Ottawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2013British Columbia MP Peter Julian has launched his bid to become the next leader of the federal NDP. He &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":89083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,483],"tags":[15081],"class_list":["post-89082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","category-politics","tag-leadership-debate","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89082","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=89082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}