{"id":1300,"date":"2010-02-08T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brocknews\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2010-02-08T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T21:20:09","slug":"proroguing-subject-of-roundtable-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/02\/proroguing-subject-of-roundtable-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Proroguing subject of roundtable discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Labour Studies and Department of Political Science at Brock will host a roundtable discussion tomorrow with Malcolm Allen, MP for Welland, about the prorogation of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The talk, \u201cPadlocking Parliament: The Politics and the Prospects for Democratic Reform,\u201d will be Feb. 9 at 12 noon in room 324 of the Plaza Building.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion will centre around the Harper government&#8217;s decision to prorogue parliament and the opposition&#8217;s attempts to restrict the Prime Minister&#8217;s ability to do so in the future. This conversation will then segue into a broader discussion about the state of Canadian democracy and potential democratic reforms.<\/p>\n<p>The roundtable is open to members of the Brock community and the general public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Labour Studies and Department of Political Science at Brock will host a roundtable discussion tomorrow with Malcolm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[110,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}