{"id":583,"date":"2013-01-05T19:19:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T19:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-and-o-clochartaigh-express-concern-over-the-health-of-canadian-hunger-striker\/"},"modified":"2013-01-05T19:19:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T19:19:28","slug":"crowe-and-o-clochartaigh-express-concern-over-the-health-of-canadian-hunger-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-and-o-clochartaigh-express-concern-over-the-health-of-canadian-hunger-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe and \u00d3 Clochartaigh express concern over the health of Canadian Hunger Striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe and \u00d3 Clochartaigh express concern over the health of Canadian Hunger Striker<\/p>\n<p>Sinn  F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n Crowe  TD, and Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Seanad spokesperson on Justice, Equality and  Defence, Trevor \u00d3 Clochartaigh, have expressed their growing concern  over the health of the Canadian hunger striker Chief Teresa Spence.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Teresa Spence of the Attawaspikat First Nation is on her  25th day of hunger strike today. She is camped at a lodge erected on  Victoria Island, in the river near the Parliament in Ottawa. The First  Nations are the various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither  Inuit nor M\u00e9tis.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Spence embarked on hunger strike in response to the  failure of the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Govern General  David Johnson to meet the First Nation Chiefs to discuss controversial  budget legislation passed last month. The legislation will impact on the  environmental safeguards for rivers and lakes, and will have an impact  on the rules which govern the sale of reserve land.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely concerned at the deteriorating health of Chief Theresa Spence as she enters her 25th day on hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI  hope that meaningful dialogue between the First Nations and the  Canadian government can begin right away and before Chief Spence\u2019s  health deteriorates even further.<\/p>\n<p>Senator \u00d3 Clochartaigh, who has a long-held interest in Canadian affairs, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistory shows us that genuine and inclusive dialogue is the best way to break the deadlock in situations such as this.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\">\n<div id=\":1ya\" class=\"ajR\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ajT\" src=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/images\/cleardot.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe and \u00d3 Clochartaigh express concern over the health of Canadian Hunger Striker Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, and Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Seanad spokesperson on Justice, Equality and Defence, Trevor \u00d3 Clochartaigh, have expressed their growing concern over the health of the Canadian hunger striker Chief Teresa Spence. Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}