{"id":1231,"date":"2006-12-27T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2006-12-27T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T18:46:00","slug":"oops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Oops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess this won&#8217;t land Steve in the slammer and it is an honest mistake, but it&#8217;s hard not to get slightly amused at the Tories finally admitting they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recorder.ca\/cp\/National\/061226\/n122611A.html\">broke election finance laws <\/a>and that Harper himself went over his donation limit in 2005:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">OTTAWA (CP) &#8211; After months of heated denials, the federal Conservative party has quietly admitted it failed to publicly disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of donations.<\/p>\n<p>And the muddle over the disclosure meant that at least three party members &#8211; including Prime Minister Stephen Harper &#8211; donated more than the legal limit last year.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, the party filed a revised financial report for 2005 with Elections Canada, acknowledging that it did not report delegate fees collected for its national convention that year as donations, contrary to political financing laws.<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In their defense, it is impossibly hard for political parties to find a lawyer in their ranks to read over these laws&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess this won&#8217;t land Steve in the slammer and it is an honest mistake, but it&#8217;s hard not to get slightly amused at the Tories finally admitting they broke election finance laws and that Harper himself went over his donation limit in 2005: OTTAWA (CP) &#8211; After months of heated denials, the federal Conservative [&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-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","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=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}