{"id":3485,"date":"2013-04-16T15:12:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2013-04-29T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T19:48:36","slug":"federal-government-partially-closes-loophole-after-ex-bloc-quebecois-leader-gilles-duceppe-used-public-funds-to-pay-party-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/federal-government-partially-closes-loophole-after-ex-bloc-quebecois-leader-gilles-duceppe-used-public-funds-to-pay-party-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) Federal government partially closes loophole after ex-Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois leader Gilles Duceppe used public funds to pay party staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Parliament has closed a loophole that allowed former <a title=\"Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blocquebecois.org\/\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/a> leader <a title=\"Gilles Duceppe\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gilles_Duceppe\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">Gilles Duceppe<\/a> to escape without punishment last year after he was found to have inappropriately paid <a title=\"Political party\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_party\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">political party<\/a> staff with taxpayer-funded parliamentary resources.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Parliament has closed a loophole that allowed former Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois leader Gilles Duceppe to escape without punishment last year after he was found to have inappropriately paid political party staff with taxpayer-funded parliamentary resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}