{"id":1347,"date":"2007-04-01T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2007-04-01T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T16:22:00","slug":"lap-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":"LaP Returns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Very interesting story over at Canada.com:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">MONTREAL: Sources close to Jean <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Lapierre<\/span> indicate that the former federal Liberal Quebec lieutenant is eying a return to politics. <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Lapierre<\/span> has privately indicated to his most trusted <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">advisers<\/span> that he&#8217;s eager to get back into the game and will toss his hat into the ring for <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">PQ<\/span> leadership should Andre <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Boisclair<\/span> step down as the party&#8217;s leader following their third place showing last week.<\/p>\n<p>Although his most recent involvement was with the federal Liberals, <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Lapierre<\/span> is the former co-founder of the Bloc Quebecois and has many connections among <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">sovereignists<\/span> who would no doubt support the charismatic media personality&#8217;s bid should he choose to run. <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_7\">Lapierre<\/span> has expressed interest in merging the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_8\">PQ<\/span> with Quebec <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_9\">Solidaire<\/span>, to form a new permanent rainbow coalition among separatists he feels can return the movement to its left wing roots and make a legitimate run for government during the next federal election.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Very interesting story over at Canada.com: MONTREAL: Sources close to Jean Lapierre indicate that the former federal Liberal Quebec lieutenant is eying a return to politics. Lapierre has privately indicated to his most trusted advisers that he&#8217;s eager to get back into the game and will toss his hat into the ring for PQ [&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":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-fools-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","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=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}