{"id":1066,"date":"2015-10-21T01:05:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T01:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2015-10-21T01:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T01:05:31","slug":"canadian-election-results-are-bittersweet-for-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Election Results Are Bittersweet for Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada kicked its anti-worker Conservative Party out of power this week in the country\u2019s federal elections, giving the more moderate Liberal Party a majority in the Canadian Parliament. Liberal leader Justin Trudeau will succeed Conservative Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>The labor-friendly New Democratic Party (NDP) couldn\u2019t hold onto momentum gained from a recent \u201corange wave\u201d of NDP support. The NDP will hold 44 of 338 seats in the new Canadian Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely disappointed with the loss of so many veteran members of the NDP in last night&#8217;s election,\u201d said IAM Canadian General Vice President Dave Ritchie. \u201cDespite this Canada-wide setback, the NDP will continue to fight for the interests of Canadian workers. I want to take this opportunity to thank our membership for all of the hard work they provided during the longest election cycle in Canadian history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada kicked its anti-worker Conservative Party out of power this week in the country\u2019s federal elections, giving the more moderate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}