{"id":228,"date":"2014-06-30T16:47:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T16:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/?p=228"},"modified":"2014-06-30T16:47:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T16:47:28","slug":"bill-c-23-fair-elections-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Bill &#8220;c-23&#8221; fair elections act."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservative government&#8217;s \u201cFair\u201d Elections Act received Royal Assent last Friday. Despite massive public outcry and dozens of amendments so that Stephen Harper&#8217;s own MPs would vote for it, it&#8217;s now the law of the land.<\/p>\n<p>How ironic: Stephen Harper pushed through unfair changes to how we vote by banking on his unelected Conservative majority in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when Harper said he wouldn\u2019t appoint unelected senators in the first place? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservative government&#8217;s \u201cFair\u201d Elections Act received Royal Assent last Friday. Despite massive public outcry and dozens of amendments so that Stephen Harper&#8217;s own MPs would vote for it, it&#8217;s now the law of the land. How ironic: Stephen Harper pushed through unfair changes to how we vote by banking on his unelected Conservative majority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pac.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}