{"id":219,"date":"2014-04-25T19:28:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T19:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/?p=219"},"modified":"2014-04-25T19:28:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T19:28:28","slug":"harper-stuck-with-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Harper stuck with Senate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously rejected the Conservative government\u2019s attempt to transform the Senate into an elected body, and to set term limits of nine years, saying that such basic changes require the consent of at least seven provinces and half of Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>The court also nixed the possible abolition of the Senate without the consent of all provinces, the House of Commons and the Senate \u2014 probably impossible for the foreseeable future. Prime Minister Stephen Harper\u2019s government had asked the court if abolition could occur with the consent of seven provinces and half of the country\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>Full story from <a title=\"Stuck with Senate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/senate-ruling\/article18205700\/?cmpid=rss1&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=gplus\" target=\"_blank\">Globe and Mail..here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously rejected the Conservative government\u2019s attempt to transform the Senate into an elected body, and to set term limits of nine years, saying that such basic changes require the consent of at least seven provinces and half of Canadians. The court also nixed the possible abolition of the Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}