{"id":63123,"date":"2017-01-13T15:55:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/trudeau-takes-questions-at-town-hall-forum-in-peterborough-ont.html"},"modified":"2017-01-13T15:55:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:55:36","slug":"trudeau-takes-questions-at-town-hall-forum-in-peterborough-ont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trudeau-takes-questions-at-town-hall-forum-in-peterborough-ont.html","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau takes questions at town hall forum in Peterborough, Ont."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began\u00a0the second day of a whirlwind outreach tour at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario this morning.<\/p>\n<p>He was up at 5 a.m. to go for a five-kilometre run with parachute jump instructors from the Canadian Army Advance Warfare Center before having\u00a0breakfast with military families in its mess hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau&#8217;s jam-packed day Friday includes\u00a0town halls in Peterborough and London, Ont., with a number of photo-opportunities in between, including one with youth from La Loche, Sask., at the Toronto Raptors training facility.<\/p>\n<p>CBC News is\u00a0livestreaming the first town hall from Peterborough at 10:30 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/9693d_trudeau-tour-20170113.jpg\" alt=\"Trudeau Tour 20170113\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted that his day started earlier that he was used to on Friday, as he went for an early-morning run with some troops, ordered a hearty breakfast and met military families at CFB Trenton after staying in the area overnight. (Adrian Wyld\/Canadian Press)<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister has faced questions on the campaign-style tour about a range of issues including electoral reform, the environment and the government&#8217;s handling of the Phoenix pay system controversy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><span>Trudeau<\/span>\u00a0hears questions and complaints at cross-country tour town halls<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><span>Trudeau<\/span>\u00a0promises to house\u00a0<span>trans<\/span>\u00a0inmates based on gender identity<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trudeau told a large crowd that gathered for a town hall Thursday night in Belleville, Ont., that he will stand up for diversity and feminism during Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Asked about Trump,\u00a0<span>Trudeau<\/span>\u00a0promises to stand for feminism and diversity<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trudeau&#8217;s tour comes as his own team tries to fend off criticism about cash-for-access events and a recent trip to the Bahamas, where he visited the Aga Khan and travelled on the spiritual leader&#8217;s helicopter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Trudeau took the Aga Khan&#8217;s private helicopter to island vacation<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">&#8216;Inappropriate&#8217;: Critics question Trudeau&#8217;s guest list on Bahamas getaway<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today&#8217;s leg of the tour will end in London, Ont., before Trudeau heads off to Quebec, B.C. and the Prairies, then the Atlantic provinces and the North.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/2a046_trudeau-tour-20170113.jpg\" alt=\"Trudeau Tour 20170113\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">Twins Gavin (left) and Tristan Hepburn met Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during an event for military families at CFB Trenton Friday. (Adrian Wyld\/Canadian Press)<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/trudeau-outreach-tour-friday-1.3934001?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began\u00a0the second day of a whirlwind outreach tour at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario this morning. He was up at 5 a.m. to go for a five-kilometre run with parachute jump instructors from the Canadian Army Advance Warfare Center before having\u00a0breakfast with military families in its mess hall.\u00a0 Trudeau&#8217;s jam-packed day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-63123","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\/63123","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=63123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}