{"id":1001,"date":"2011-04-29T12:40:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T16:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightoncanada.ca\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2011-04-29T12:40:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T16:40:32","slug":"video-harper-defends-support-for-asbestos-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Video: Harper defends support for asbestos industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span>Stephen Harper was in Asbestos, Quebec on April 26  seeking votes for the Conservative party, saying that he is the only Canadian  political leader that supports, and will always support, the asbestos trade.  Standing next to Bernard Coulombe, president of the Jeffrey Mine Inc., who is  seeking to open a new asbestos mine that would export millions of tonnes of  asbestos to developing countries for years to come, Harper was asked if he  planned to change regulations in Canada and permit asbestos to put back in  Canadian schools and home. Harper said no and expressed his support for this  bankrupt, dying industry that exports a known carcinogen to developing  countries<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/video\/video-harper-defends-support-for-asbestos-industry\/article1999690\/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&amp;utm_source=Home&amp;utm_content=1999690\">Watch the video on the Globe and Mail website. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Harper was in Asbestos, Quebec on April 26 seeking votes for the Conservative party, saying that he is the only Canadian political leader that supports, and will always support, the asbestos trade. Standing next to Bernard Coulombe, president of the Jeffrey Mine Inc., who is seeking to open a new asbestos mine that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[326,143,144,140],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asbestos","tag-asbestos","tag-harper","tag-jeffrey-mine","tag-stephen-harper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}