{"id":61655,"date":"2021-09-15T09:11:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T13:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=61655"},"modified":"2021-09-21T09:43:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:43:34","slug":"the-peoples-party-of-canada-a-refusal-to-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/the-peoples-party-of-canada-a-refusal-to-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"The People\u2019s Party of Canada: \u2018A Refusal to Compromise\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karin Litzcke is running for election in the riding of Vancouver East, with the People\u2019s Party of Canada. As she puts it, \u201cI've wanted to run for office since...I was in my thirties, but I could never find a party where there wasn't too much compromise, required to fully sign onto their platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 15px; height: 15px;\"><\/div>\n<p>She found that refusal to compromise in Maxime Bernier\u2019s People\u2019s Party of Canada. A self-described leftist, Litzcke joined the PPC so she could \u201c...be the Greenpeace of social change by creating space for...discussion.\u201d Living in the riding of Vancouver East, Litzcke was compelled to run for office because, \u201c...you will not find anybody on the Downtown Eastside who says, \u2018oh, it's been getting better.\u2019 It has been getting steadily worse and all that's happening so far is that the politicians are getting better and better at sounding like they care.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karin Litzcke is running for election in the riding of Vancouver East, with the People\u2019s Party of Canada. As she puts it, \u201cI&#8217;ve wanted to run for office since&#8230;I was in my thirties, but I could never find a party where there wasn&#8217;t too much compromise, required to fully sign onto their platform.\u201d She found&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":61658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225],"tags":[3294,1445,678,9582,9583],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61655"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=61655"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=61655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}