{"id":89899,"date":"2022-04-05T21:31:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=89899"},"modified":"2022-04-21T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T16:57:11","slug":"do-demographics-impact-local-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/do-demographics-impact-local-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Do demographics impact local politics? UFV professor weighs in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A local professor says immigration to the Fraser Valley has impacted the region\u2019s political landscape.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ron Dart, professor at the University of the Fraser Valley, says when people are coming from conservative backgrounds, they bring with them a certain understanding of culture, economics and religion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Eastern European countries tend not to be as completely committed to getting on the train of liberalism,\" he adds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dart explains that when immigrants flee from countries in war, they bring their own histories and understandings of identity, gender, race and religion to Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the interview with Ron Dart below: <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local professor says immigration to the Fraser Valley has impacted the region\u2019s political landscape.\u00a0 Ron Dart, professor at the University of the Fraser Valley, says when people are coming from conservative backgrounds, they bring with them a certain understanding of culture, economics and religion.\u00a0 &#8220;Eastern European countries tend not to be as completely committed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":89901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,225],"tags":[13748,13747,12763,12765,3402],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89899"}],"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\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91780,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89899\/revisions\/91780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89899"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=89899"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=89899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}