{"id":952858,"date":"2026-10-31T07:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952858\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T07:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:12:12","slug":"quebec-solidaire-calls-on-st-pierre-plamondon-to-cancel-appointment-of-admirer-of-trump-to-key-pq-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952858\/","title":{"rendered":"Qu\u00e9bec solidaire calls on St-Pierre Plamondon to cancel appointment of &#8216;admirer of Trump&#8217; to key PQ position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The appointment of a political commentator known for expressing controversial views to a key position in the office of a Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois minister is raising eyebrows in Quebec City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jacinthe-Eve Arel was recently appointed chief of staff for the minister of government efficiency and reduction of state regulations, S\u00e9bastien D\u2019Astous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arel failed in her election bid in the 2018 provincial election when she ran as a candidate for the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec. She later worked in Simon Jolin-Barrette\u2019s office when he was minister of immigration. In 2022, she ran as a Conservative candidate but was defeated again. She then became a political commentator, known for posting her controversial views on social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The appointment of a political commentator known for expressing controversial views to a key position in the office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-952858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952858","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=952858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}