{"id":17400,"date":"2018-12-15T11:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T16:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=17400"},"modified":"2018-12-15T10:39:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T15:39:05","slug":"statement-from-andrea-horwath-on-acting-opp-commissioner-brad-blairs-legal-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/15\/statement-from-andrea-horwath-on-acting-opp-commissioner-brad-blairs-legal-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Andrea Horwath on acting OPP Commissioner Brad Blair\u2019s legal challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black; font-size: small;\">Acting Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Commissioner Brad Blair is seeking a legal decision stating that investigating potential political interference in the hiring of the OPP Commissioner is within the jurisdiction of the Ontario Ombudsman.\u00a0Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath released the following statement in support:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black; font-size: small;\">\u201cI want to thank Commissioner Blair for his integrity, and for his ongoing commitment to the independence of the OPP.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black; font-size: small;\">It\u2019s clear that Commissioner Blair has recognized an injustice, and committed himself to correct it so the people of Ontario can continue to have full confidence in the provincial police force. I fully support his decision to pursue legal means to ensure that there is a proper investigation into Doug Ford\u2019s appointment of Ron Taverner as OPP Commissioner.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black; font-size: small;\">The NDP is continuing to pursue all possible avenues to ensure this disturbing case of potential political interference by Doug Ford is investigated, and that Mr. Taverner does not take command of the OPP on Monday.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Commissioner Brad Blair is seeking a legal decision stating that investigating potential political interference in the hiring of the OPP Commissioner is within the jurisdiction of the Ontario Ombudsman.\u00a0Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath released the following statement in support: \u00a0 \u201cI want to thank Commissioner Blair for his integrity, and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 08:16:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17401,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17400\/revisions\/17401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}