{"id":61871,"date":"2021-09-14T21:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T01:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=61871"},"modified":"2021-10-05T15:50:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:50:55","slug":"jane-philpott-canadians-want-political-parties-to-work-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/jane-philpott-canadians-want-political-parties-to-work-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Philpott: Canadians want political parties to work together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jane Philpott is now Dean of Queen\u2019s University School of Medicine. But in 2019, she was in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s cabinet. She resigned her position as the President of the Treasury Board in the wake of the SNC-Lavalin affair and was soon expelled from the Liberal Party caucus, along with Jody Wison-Raybould.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the lead-up to the Sept. 20 federal election, CFRO spoke with Philpott. She expressed dismay over the issues that were not being discussed during the election campaign. One she highlighted was the \u201ccontinued number of [opioid] deaths that are occurring across the entire country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philpott also sees a desperate need for more points of view in politics. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe need people with <a> much greater diversity of perspectives from different socioeconomic backgrounds, from different, ethnic and cultural and racial backgrounds,\" she said. \"And I think politics will be much better when we get to that place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to CFRO's interview with Jane Philpott below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Philpott is now Dean of Queen\u2019s University School of Medicine. But in 2019, she was in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s cabinet. She resigned her position as the President of the Treasury Board in the wake of the SNC-Lavalin affair and was soon expelled from the Liberal Party caucus, along with Jody Wison-Raybould.\u00a0 In the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":61872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225],"tags":[3294,488,284,678,8186,1048],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61871"}],"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=61871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61871"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=61871"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=61871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}