{"id":943057,"date":"2026-10-23T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943057\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T07:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:24:12","slug":"canada-warns-its-diplomats-to-avoid-being-seen-with-u-s-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943057\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada warns its diplomats to avoid being seen with U.S. candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian diplomats working in the U.S. have been directed to stay away from candidates running in the midterm elections, and to keep a low profile to avoid allegations by the Trump administration of political interference, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>Under written guidance distributed Tuesday, Canadian officials are barred from meeting with or even being in the same room as midterm candidates \u2014 all House candidates and a third of the Senate \u2014 unless given special permission.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian officials are still allowed to conduct other business and meetings with elected U.S. representatives who are not up for reelection, if necessary. But they\u2019ve been told to ensure they don\u2019t appear in photographs alongside any elected U.S. officials, according to people who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the internal memo, which called the measures a \u201cvery risk-averse approach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian diplomats working in the U.S. have been directed to stay away from candidates running in the midterm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2659,84119,44,178],"class_list":["post-943057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mark-carney","tag-midterm-elections","tag-news","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943057","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=943057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}