{"id":60495,"date":"2023-05-02T11:19:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T15:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=60495"},"modified":"2023-05-02T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T15:22:12","slug":"statement-by-the-prime-minister-on-the-death-of-gordon-lightfoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/02\/statement-by-the-prime-minister-on-the-death-of-gordon-lightfoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by the Prime Minister on the death of Gordon Lightfoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_60496\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60496\" class=\"wp-image-60496 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GL-DSCF0161-2014-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GL-DSCF0161-2014-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GL-DSCF0161-2014-460x600.jpg 460w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GL-DSCF0161-2014.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-60496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Kewadin Casino, 2014. photo by Brenda Stockton<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>May 2, 2023<br \/>\nOttawa, Ontario<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the death of Gordon Lightfoot:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cI was deeply saddened to hear of the passing yesterday of Gordon Lightfoot, one of Canada\u2019s greatest singer-songwriters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cMr. Lightfoot gave us so many special moments over the years. With a career that spanned over half a century, Mr. Lightfoot\u2019s music told stories that captured the Canadian spirit, none more so than his iconic Canadian Railroad Trilogy, which will forever be a part of our country\u2019s musical heritage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cI had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Lightfoot as a child \u2013 he spent the afternoon in the Gatineau Hills with my family, and it is a memory I will always cherish.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cMr. Lightfoot received many Juno Awards and Grammy nominations, and was honoured as a member of Canada\u2019s Walk of Fame, the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He received the Governor General&#8217;s Performing Arts Award in 1997, and was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada in 2003.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cOn behalf of all Canadians, Sophie and I express our deepest sympathies to Gordon\u2019s family, friends, and his many, many fans. His legacy will live on in the dynamic Canadian soundscape he helped to shape.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"moz-extension:\/\/86e31345-88cb-4e07-bae4-272d394c2a47\/injectedPasswordless.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2, 2023 Ottawa, Ontario The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the death of Gordon Lightfoot: \u201cI was deeply saddened to hear of the passing yesterday of Gordon Lightfoot, one of Canada\u2019s greatest singer-songwriters. \u201cMr. Lightfoot gave us so many special moments over the years. With a career that spanned &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":60498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 14:33:37","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\/60495","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60499,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60495\/revisions\/60499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}