{"id":1181,"date":"2006-11-23T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2006-11-23T02:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T07:22:00","slug":"its-come-to-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"It’s Come To This"},"content":{"rendered":"

3 updates at the bottom…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On his blog, Warren Kinsella <\/a>calmly asks: “WHO WILL SPEAK FOR CANADA, NOW?”<\/p>\n

Well, to answer Warren’s question, it appears that the man who will speak for Canada is…wait for it…Jimmy K<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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However, at least one Liberal, Jim Karygiannis, said he would oppose [Harper’s motion].<\/p>\n

\u201cAre we going to have a Greek nation within Canada, a Ukrainian nation within Canada, a Chinese nation within Canada? Sorry, Canada is the nation,\u201d Karygiannis asked.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UPDATE: <\/em><\/strong>Andrew Coyne<\/a>, who is shockingly not amused by this, has more reaction, including this piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2:<\/em><\/strong> Go on and Bleed has some classic quotes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 3 – A United Canada?: <\/em><\/strong>The Globe <\/a>has quotes from some living people:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Quebec Premier Jean Charest: \u201cThe recognition of Quebec as a nation is a way for us to occupy the place that is owed us in Canada and elsewhere in the world. In my view it is a very significant gesture.\u201d (The Globe and Mail)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Manitoba Premier Gary Doer: \u201cTo me, Canada is one nation, one country. I understand Quebec is unique in terms of language, culture and law, but Canada is one country.\u201d (Winnipeg Free Press)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Alberta Residents League chairman Pat Beauchamp: \u201cGo ahead. If you are a nation within a nation, just go ahead and leave. Leave completely.\u201d (Calgary Herald)<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Edmonton Sun: \u201cUp until about mid-afternoon yesterday, we thought Prime Minister Stephen Harper was doing a pretty good job in the office he was handed \u2013 if only on a trial basis \u2013 last January. But some time about halfway between lunchtime and the supper hour yesterday he lost us. And we fear he may have turned off a whole lot of other Canadians in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Globe and Mail: \u201cMr. Harper has mitigated the damage by removing most of the political sting from the word (nation), while leaving the recognition of Quebeckers as a special community within Canada. Hard to argue with that, even if you belong to a different special community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 The National Post: \u201cWe must somehow summon up all our will — and leave well enough alone. We wish Mr. Harper had had the will to do so, rather than starting down a path few in this country want him to take.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Winnipeg Free Press editorial: \u201cMr. Harper had an opportunity to speak for Canada to all Canadians, and he did not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3 updates at the bottom… On his blog, Warren Kinsella calmly asks: “WHO WILL SPEAK FOR CANADA, NOW?” Well, to answer Warren’s question, it appears that the man who will speak for Canada is…wait for it…Jimmy K: However, at least one Liberal, Jim Karygiannis, said he would oppose [Harper’s motion]. \u201cAre we going to have […]<\/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-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","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=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}