{"id":908473,"date":"2026-09-25T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908473\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T00:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:16:10","slug":"mark-carney-offers-condolences-in-parliament-to-slain-montreal-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908473\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Carney offers condolences in Parliament to slain Montreal woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Mark Carney offered his condolences in Parliament on Thursday to the family of a Montreal woman who was killed <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/suspicious-death-rene-levesque-blvd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">earlier this week<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Le\u00efla Ben Salem, 45, was an \u201cesteemed\u201d employee of the Canada Revenue Agency who was dedicated to serving Canadians, Carney said in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn behalf of the Government of Canada and, I believe, all the members of this House, I offer our profound condolences to the family, loved ones and colleagues of Ms. Ben Salem,\u201d Carney said at the beginning of Question Period on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben Salem was serving Canadians when she was attacked, Carney said. According to multiple reports, Ben Salem was participating in a virtual meeting with colleagues at the time of her homicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Mark Carney offered his condolences in Parliament on Thursday to the family of a Montreal woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,222407,2338,227708],"class_list":["post-908473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime-and-law","tag-montreal","tag-murder-and-homicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}