{"id":1239,"date":"2007-01-07T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2007-01-07T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T18:58:00","slug":"bad-boys-bad-boys-watcha-gonna-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"Bad Boys Bad Boys, Watcha Gonna Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting tid-bit in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/topics\/news\/national\/story.html?id=b2595f07-303a-4725-88ae-587fccb49a64&amp;k=57727\">yesterday&#8217;s Herard <\/a>from Intergovernmental Relations Minister Guy Boutilier:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet, Boutilier said Alberta and other provinces and territories are owed the same rights associated with the Quebec nation, a distinction recently approved by the House of Commons.<br \/>&#8220;Each province is a nation within a nation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly that title means is open for interpretation, Boutilier noted.<\/p>\n<p>However, for Alberta, he said it could be a recognition that it deserves more immigration powers to address the mounting labour crunch, and that the federal government solve a fiscal imbalance that some provinces claim sees Ottawa collecting more tax revenue than necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hear, hear! I for one would love to see a resolution before the House recognizing Alberta as a nation (within a unified Canada, <em>bien sur<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting tid-bit in yesterday&#8217;s Herard from Intergovernmental Relations Minister Guy Boutilier: Yet, Boutilier said Alberta and other provinces and territories are owed the same rights associated with the Quebec nation, a distinction recently approved by the House of Commons.&#8220;Each province is a nation within a nation,&#8221; he said. What exactly that title means is open [&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-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","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=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}