{"id":1326,"date":"2007-03-19T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T05:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2007-03-19T01:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T05:19:00","slug":"mindless-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1326","title":{"rendered":"Mindless Speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know whenever anyone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070317.wharper17\/BNStory\/National\/\">fires up the troops<\/a>, it&#8217;s perceived that an election is &#8220;imminent&#8221;. I&#8217;ve said for a while that I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll see a federal vote until 2008, but the common <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">consensus<\/span> is certainly turning towards a spring vote these days.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll toss the question out there for the comments section: Will we be having a federal election this spring?<\/p>\n<p>Speculate away!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong>  Libs and NDP to oppose the budget, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20070319\/budget2007_opprx_070319\/20070319?hub=TopStories\">Bloc to support it<\/a> which puts Andre Boisclair in a rather uncomfortable position, to put it mildly.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think this changes much vis-a-vis election speculation though since the Kyoto and Crime bills are the most likely roads to an election, not the budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know whenever anyone fires up the troops, it&#8217;s perceived that an election is &#8220;imminent&#8221;. I&#8217;ve said for a while that I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll see a federal vote until 2008, but the common consensus is certainly turning towards a spring vote these days. So I&#8217;ll toss the question out there for the comments section: [&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-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","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=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}