{"id":62899,"date":"2017-01-12T07:39:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T07:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/?p=62899"},"modified":"2017-01-12T07:39:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T07:39:53","slug":"the-pollcast-what-the-cabinet-shuffle-means-for-electoral-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/the-pollcast-what-the-cabinet-shuffle-means-for-electoral-reform.html","title":{"rendered":"The Pollcast: What the cabinet shuffle means for electoral reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">CBC\u00a0Pollcast<\/a>, hosted by CBC poll analyst \u00c9ric Grenier, explores the world of electoral\u00a0politics,\u00a0political polls and the trends they reveal.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This week&#8217;s cabinet shuffle signals the Liberal government&#8217;s reaction to the upcoming inauguration of Donald Trump as the new U.S. president. But will it also mean a change in direction on the troubled electoral reform file?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Pollcast:\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Electoral reform, like math, is hard<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Podcasts: <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Subscribe to the CBC\u00a0Pollcast\u200b<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maryam Monsef, the beleaguered minister of democratic institutions, was shuffled out of her portfolio to become the new minister of status of women. Her replacement is Karina Gould, the former parliamentary secretary to the minister of international development.<\/p>\n<p>Joining podcast host \u00c9ric Grenier to discuss what the shuffle means for the future of electoral reform is the CBC&#8217;s\u00a0Aaron Wherry.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full discussion above \u2014 or <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">subscribe to the CBC\u00a0Pollcast and listen to past episodes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">\u00c9ric Grenier<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Aaron Wherry<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/grenier-pollcast-wherry-1.3930795?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBC\u00a0Pollcast, hosted by CBC poll analyst \u00c9ric Grenier, explores the world of electoral\u00a0politics,\u00a0political polls and the trends they reveal. This week&#8217;s cabinet shuffle signals the Liberal government&#8217;s reaction to the upcoming inauguration of Donald Trump as the new U.S. president. But will it also mean a change in direction on the troubled electoral reform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-62899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}