{"id":96632,"date":"2017-04-03T21:10:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T01:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=96632"},"modified":"2017-04-03T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T01:10:06","slug":"comedians-remarks-inappropriate-heritage-minister-melanie-joly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/03\/comedians-remarks-inappropriate-heritage-minister-melanie-joly\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian&#8217;s remarks &#8216;inappropriate&#8217;: Heritage Minister Melanie Joly"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_96633\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96633\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17499319_1663883983921126_5370104598812431036_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96633\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17499319_1663883983921126_5370104598812431036_n.jpg\" alt=\"Speaking outside the House of Commons on Monday, Joly said Peters' comments were inappropriate, adding this type of humour does not have a place at the Junos. (Photo: M\u00e9lanie Joly\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17499319_1663883983921126_5370104598812431036_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17499319_1663883983921126_5370104598812431036_n-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17499319_1663883983921126_5370104598812431036_n-768x624.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaking outside the House of Commons on Monday, Joly said Peters&#8217; comments were inappropriate, adding this type of humour does not have a place at the Junos. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/melanie.joly.965\"> M\u00e9lanie Joly\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2013Comedian Russell Peters&#8217;s performance as host of the Junos on Sunday night is getting a bad review from Heritage Minister Melanie Joly.<\/p>\n<p>Peters, who hosted the music awards ceremony in Ottawa along with musician Bryan Adams, introduced the minister before she presented an award alongside artist Coleman Hell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith him is the minister of heritage, Melanie Joly,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t know why, but she&#8217;s hot, so who cares?\u201d Peters replied.<\/p>\n<p>Peters also commented on the number of young women in the audience, suggesting it was a \u201cfelony waiting to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking outside the House of Commons on Monday, Joly said Peters&#8217; comments were inappropriate, adding this type of humour does not have a place at the Junos.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said she is proud to represent an industry worth $53 billion, noting Canada is the third largest exporter of music in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to make sure that all our role models are supporting the importance of gender parity,\u201d Joly said. \u201cI really hope that he takes that into consideration and understands &#8230; the importance of what he said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peters was not immediately available for comment on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2013Comedian Russell Peters&#8217;s performance as host of the Junos on Sunday night is getting a bad review from Heritage &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":96633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,483],"tags":[17433,17372,17374],"class_list":["post-96632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-politics","tag-heritage-minister-melanie-joly","tag-juno-awards","tag-russell-peters","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96632","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=96632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}