{"id":17350,"date":"2016-11-28T10:19:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T10:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.nmd.cc\/blog\/?p=17350"},"modified":"2016-12-11T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T13:45:32","slug":"ginette-marotte-caq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/ginette-marotte-caq\/","title":{"rendered":"One-time Liberal Former Mayor Runs for the CAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday and Friday, I got a chance to interview Ginette Marotte to ask her why she thinks Verdun residents should vote for her to represent them in the Quebec legislature.<\/p>\n<p>She spoke about her desire to re-enter politics after seeing Robert Poeti demoted. &#8220;He&#8217;s the most honest politician I&#8217;ve ever met,&#8221; she said. She also spoke about her need to make sure that her values and love for seniors and children are reflected in provincial education policy.<\/p>\n<p>Had to interview her twice because I forgot to press the play button on our first interview! Sorry, Ginette. Our conversation is in English on Mixcloud:<\/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%2Fone-time-liberal-former-mayor-runs-for-the-caq%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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday and Friday, I got a chance to interview Ginette Marotte to ask her why she thinks Verdun residents should vote for her to represent them in the Quebec legislature. She spoke about her desire to re-enter politics after seeing Robert Poeti demoted. &#8220;He&#8217;s the most honest politician I&#8217;ve ever met,&#8221; she said. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17351,"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-17350","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-4vQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17358,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/verdun-election-heating\/","url_meta":{"origin":17350,"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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The Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) is betting that they don\u2019t. \u201cAs you may have seen, the CAQ is doing things differently for many aspects of this campaign, including the use of offices by candidates,\u201d wrote Marc, the Southwest\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics That Matter&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics That Matter","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/cultural-identity\/politics-that-matter\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17343,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/strong-liberal-candidate-parachuted\/","url_meta":{"origin":17350,"position":3},"title":"Strong Liberal Candidate Parachuted-in","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"November 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Thursday, I got a chance to interview Isabelle Melan\u00e7on in French about her candidacy to become Verdun's provincial member of parliament during the 2016 by-election. 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