{"id":71284,"date":"2026-10-01T04:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/?p=71284"},"modified":"2026-10-01T04:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:03:25","slug":"ontario-conservative-mp-aitchison-to-resign-when-fall-sitting-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/?p=71284","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Conservative MP Aitchison to resign when fall sitting ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71285\" src=\"http:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1290d7aac4e35b885411285521627b0d2fe3b978d2fc8ce68890846fed7b013b-1024x697-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"697\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<p class=\"authors\" tabindex=\"0\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">By David Baxter, The Canadian Press<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-date-row row\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<p class=\"last-modified-date\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-row row\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"post-content-area\" class=\"content-col col\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ontario Conservative MP Scott Aitchison has announced he will resign his seat of Parry Sound-Muskoka at the end of the current fall parliamentary sitting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a letter released to constituents today, Aitchison says that after 30 years of public life, he plans to explore other opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"fsk_splitbox_506617\" data-google-query-id=\"CI2O2dDglpcDFeS7zgEd_dkLoA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/7326\/en.citynews_montreal.web_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Aitchison ran for the party leadership in 2022 and has served as the opposition\u2019s housing critic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is set to become the 12th MP to resign since January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The exiting MP says it has been the \u201chonour of his lifetime\u201d to serve the people of his community and he hopes he made them proud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre issued a statement thanking Aitchison for his public service and wishing him all the best in his next chapter.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Baxter, The Canadian Press Ontario Conservative MP Scott Aitchison has announced he will resign his seat of Parry Sound-Muskoka at the end of the current fall parliamentary sitting. &nbsp; In a letter released to constituents today, Aitchison says that after 30 years of public life, he plans to explore other opportunities. Aitchison ran &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":71285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-198"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71286,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71284\/revisions\/71286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upndownbeirut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}