{"id":23753,"date":"2023-07-07T19:46:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T19:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23753"},"modified":"2023-07-07T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T20:06:00","slug":"party-line-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23753","title":{"rendered":"Party line continues&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Harper-surveil.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23768\" width=\"1000\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Harper-surveil.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Harper-surveil-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Harper-surveil-768x452.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A party line (multiparty line, shared service line, party wire) is&nbsp;a local loop telephone circuit that is shared by multiple telephone service subscribers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The party line on a particular issue is&nbsp;the official view taken by a political party, which its members are expected to support.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-3.17.14-PM-776x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23763\" width=\"582\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-3.17.14-PM-776x1024.png 776w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-3.17.14-PM-227x300.png 227w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-3.17.14-PM-768x1013.png 768w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-07-at-3.17.14-PM.png 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 85vw, 582px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Following excerpted from Toronto Star article July 6\/22<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OTTAWA &#8211; Former prime minister Stephen Harper says he wants closer ties between right-leaning political parties including the Conservative Party of Canada and the Hungarian government, which has been accused of democratic backsliding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harper chairs <strong>the International Democrat Union, a global alliance of right-leaning political parties that includes Canada\u2019s Conservatives <\/strong>as well as the Fidesz Party led by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two met Thursday in Budapest, and Harper said on Twitter that they discussed \u201cthe importance of centre-right parties strengthening their collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harper also met this week with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome, as she leads a bloc of conservative European parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human Rights Watch says Orb\u00e1n\u2019s government has delivered sustained \u201cattacks on rule of law and public institutions\u201d such as undermining judicial independence and surveilling journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Court-Painter-party-line.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Court-Painter-party-line.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Court-Painter-party-line-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Court-Painter-party-line-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Court Painter surreptitiously listening in on the Conservative party line<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=21252\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=21252(opens in a new tab)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Party Line post from October 28\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure 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The party line on a particular issue is&nbsp;the official view taken by a political party, which its members are expected to support. Following excerpted from Toronto Star article July 6\/22 OTTAWA &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23753\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Party line continues&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23753"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23771,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753\/revisions\/23771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}