{"id":1411,"date":"2007-06-02T02:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2007-06-02T02:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T06:18:00","slug":"great-moments-in-spin-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1411","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Spin III"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, that’s provincial <\/a>and municipal<\/a>. Time for federal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The leaders reacted harshly after the Commons question period where Harper challenged the credibility of Liberal Leader Stephane<\/span><\/span> Dion because he hasn’t served in the military, and took a shot at deputy leader Michael Ignatieff<\/span><\/span> because he lived outside the country for three decades.<\/p>\n

“I will just say it is true I have never served in the Armed Forces,” Harper replied when Ignatieff<\/span><\/span> noted that Harper had not served in the military either. “I consider that an experience in my life that I have missed, but I can say I have always lived and worked and paid my taxes in this country.”<\/span><\/p>\n

[…]<\/span><\/p>\n

When Dion pressed O’Connor to voluntarily resign since the prime minister “doesn’t have the courage” to fire him, Harper defended the retired brigadier-general as he has in the past, by emphasizing O’Connor served in the military for 32 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“And when the leader of the opposition is able to stand in uniform and serve his country, then I will care about his opinion of the performance of the minister of national defence,” Harper added.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Other rules for when you are allowed to criticize Canada’s New Government:<\/p>\n

-Only first nations people can question Jim Prentice’s performance at Indian Affairs<\/p>\n

-Only doctors may cast doubt on Tony Clement’s vision for Health Care<\/p>\n

-Only MPs<\/span><\/span> with personal stylists can criticize the Prime Minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, that’s provincial and municipal. Time for federal: The leaders reacted harshly after the Commons question period where Harper challenged the credibility of Liberal Leader Stephane Dion because he hasn’t served in the military, and took a shot at deputy leader Michael Ignatieff because he lived outside the country for three decades. “I will just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411"}],"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=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}