{"id":17343,"date":"2016-11-28T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T09:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.nmd.cc\/blog\/?p=17343"},"modified":"2016-12-10T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T17:50:08","slug":"strong-liberal-candidate-parachuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/strong-liberal-candidate-parachuted\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Liberal Candidate Parachuted-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, I got a chance to interview Isabelle Melan\u00e7on in French about her candidacy to become Verdun&#8217;s provincial member of parliament during the 2016 by-election.<\/p>\n<p>My interview is on Mixcloud at:<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"60\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2FTraceyArial%2Fstrong-liberal-candidate-parachuted-in%2F&amp;hide_cover=1&amp;light=1&amp;mini=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media; fullscreen; autoplay; idle-detection; speaker-selection; web-share;\" sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation\"><\/iframe>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Melan\u00e7on lives in Assomption, but she says she has lots to offer Verdun residents other than an postal address. She says she has lots of government experience and will be ready to get to work on the education, transportation and social housing files that concern Verdun on December 6 if she&#8217;s elected December 5th.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Melan\u00e7on, check out the following stories:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plq.org\/fr\/article\/isabelle-melancon-candidate-parti-liberal-quebec-election-partielle-verdun\">http:\/\/www.plq.org\/fr\/article\/isabelle-melancon-candidate-parti-liberal-quebec-election-partielle-verdun\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"HS6b1Ak8e7\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/journalmetro.com\/local\/ids-verdun\/1030837\/la-liberale-isabelle-melancon-se-presente-dans-verdun\/\">La lib\u00e9rale Isabelle M\u00e9lan\u00e7on se pr\u00e9sente dans Verdun<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u00ab\u00a0La lib\u00e9rale Isabelle M\u00e9lan\u00e7on se pr\u00e9sente dans Verdun\u00a0\u00bb &#8212; Journal M\u00e9tro\" src=\"https:\/\/journalmetro.com\/local\/ids-verdun\/1030837\/la-liberale-isabelle-melancon-se-presente-dans-verdun\/embed\/#?secret=bVScyxRxp5#?secret=HS6b1Ak8e7\" data-secret=\"HS6b1Ak8e7\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2016\/10\/03\/election-complementaire-dans-verdun-le-plq-misera-sur-isabelle-melancon\">http:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2016\/10\/03\/election-complementaire-dans-verdun-le-plq-misera-sur-isabelle-melancon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, I got a chance to interview Isabelle Melan\u00e7on in French about her candidacy to become Verdun&#8217;s provincial member of parliament during the 2016 by-election. My interview is on Mixcloud at: Melan\u00e7on lives in Assomption, but she says she has lots to offer Verdun residents other than an postal address. She says she has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,893,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-that-matter","category-unapologetically-canadian","category-verdunposts","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-4vJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17358,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/verdun-election-heating\/","url_meta":{"origin":17343,"position":0},"title":"Verdun by-election heating up","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"December 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"My article on the Verdun by-election appears on the front page of the Suburban this week. 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