{"id":1177,"date":"2006-11-21T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2006-11-21T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T03:45:00","slug":"state-of-the-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"State of the Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macleans.ca\/paulwells\/archives\/week_2006_11_19-2006_11_25.asp#002829\">vewy vewy intewesting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois supply day motion, debate to be held (whoops! Updated:) Thursday, vote to be held Monday or Tuesday:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Que cette Chambre reconnaisse que les Qu\u00e9b\u00e9coises et les Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois forment une nation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is going to put Stephen Harper in an awkward situation since he has repeatedly (and wisely) dodged the question (I bet he wishes he had an EU meeting or something to run off to!). My prediction is he&#8217;ll use the &#8220;nation is an ambiguous term&#8221; defense but, even then, he&#8217;s damned either way he votes.<\/p>\n<p>And, strange as it sounds, the Liberal leadership contender this is going to be the most difficult for is Stephane Dion. <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macleans.ca\/paulwells\/archives\/week_2006_11_19-2006_11_25.asp#002827\">Muddled <\/a>as he is on this, it&#8217;s clear enough that Iggy can vote yes and be (relatively speaking) consistent with his position(s). Kennedy and Rae don&#8217;t have seats so they get a crucial exemption. That leaves Stephane Dion to tap-dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is vewy vewy intewesting: Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois supply day motion, debate to be held (whoops! Updated:) Thursday, vote to be held Monday or Tuesday: &#8220;Que cette Chambre reconnaisse que les Qu\u00e9b\u00e9coises et les Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois forment une nation.&#8221; This is going to put Stephen Harper in an awkward situation since he has repeatedly (and wisely) dodged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}