{"id":3883,"date":"2013-06-21T14:54:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T18:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2013-06-26T14:56:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T18:56:24","slug":"politicians-need-clear-ethics-rules-and-job-descriptions-after-146-years-of-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/politicians-need-clear-ethics-rules-and-job-descriptions-after-146-years-of-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) Politicians need clear ethics rules and job descriptions after 146 years of negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent controversy surrounding Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau&#8217;s refusal to pay back a speaking fee to a charity group in New Brunswick &#8211; and then having a change of heart &#8211; has generated a much-needed debate about a broader issue: whether MPs should accept such fees at all. Isn&#8217;t this practice at odds with the general concept of public service, something for which elected officials are already adequately paid?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent controversy surrounding Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau&#8217;s refusal to pay back a speaking fee to a charity group in New Brunswick &#8211; and then having a change of heart &#8211; has generated a much-needed debate about a broader issue: whether MPs should accept such fees at all. Isn&#8217;t this practice at odds with the [&hellip;]<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883","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=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}