{"id":1180,"date":"2013-02-11T13:53:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:18","slug":"stephen-azzi-on-senate-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2013\/stephen-azzi-on-senate-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Azzi on Senate controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Stephen Azzi on Senate controversy\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Stephen&nbsp;Azzi was interviewed live on&nbsp;CTV News Channel about the case of Senator Patrick Brazeau, who has been charged with assault and sexual assault. Most senators are capable people of integrity, according to Azzi, who said it is a shame that&nbsp;Brazeau&#8217;s actions taint the Senate.&nbsp;Azzi was also critical of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. No prime minister has talked more about Senate reform than Harper, Azzi said, but the&nbsp;Brazeau appointment shows that the prime minister has acted like his predecessors, making appointments based on partisanship, rather than ability and integrity. Watch the interview here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/video?clipId=861764\">http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/video?clipId=861764<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen&nbsp;Azzi was interviewed live on&nbsp;CTV News Channel about the case of Senator Patrick Brazeau, who has been charged with assault and sexual assault. Most senators are capable people of integrity, according to Azzi, who said it is a shame that&nbsp;Brazeau&#8217;s actions taint the Senate.&nbsp;Azzi was also critical of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. No prime minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}