The National did their end-of-term political run-down last night. Here’s what the pannel had to say:<\/p>\n
Best Political Play<\/strong> Worst Political Play Significant Political Event<\/strong> Under Reported Political Event<\/strong> Most Overrated Politician<\/strong> Big Idea out there for Harper<\/strong> Who we\u2019ll be talking about in one year\u2026<\/strong> Stump the Panel – <\/strong>Which of these people is an MP?<\/p>\n Hugh Guthrie [On the plus side, I got this one right\u2026however I wasn\u2019t aware that Chris was a female, so I\u2019m not sure I can get full credit]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National did their end-of-term political run-down last night. Here’s what the pannel had to say: Best Political PlayCoyne: Bill Casey jumping ship.Gregg: Dion\u2019s deal with Elizabeth MayHebert: Justin Trudeau running in a tough riding and winning the nomination himself.Russo: Harper not calling an election Worst Political PlayCoyne: Opposition parties passing the Kyoto BillGregg: Conservatives […]<\/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-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","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=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Coyne: Bill Casey jumping ship.
Gregg: Dion\u2019s deal with Elizabeth May
Hebert: Justin Trudeau running in a tough riding and winning the nomination himself.
Russo: Harper not calling an election<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Coyne: Opposition parties passing the Kyoto Bill
Gregg: Conservatives handling of the environmental file
Hebert: Charest going ahead with the tax cuts after winning the election
Russo: Gilles Duceppe\u2019s in-and-out of PQ leadership<\/p>\n
Coyne: Flaherty\u2019s budget
Gregg: Ascent of the ADQ
Hebert: The G8 Summit
Russo: Afghan detainee issue<\/p>\n
Coyne: Alberta-BC trade deal
Gregg: Deterioration of federal-provincial relations
Hebert: Quebec moving down the road to a challenge to the Canada Health Act
Russo: Stagnant polls
[ed note: I think Russo and Gregg need to have the meaning of \u201cunder-reported\u201d explained to them]<\/em><\/p>\n
Coyne: John Baird
Gregg: John Baird
Hebert: Jim Flaherty
Russo: Michael Fortier<\/p>\n
Coyne: Tax points in exchange for federal power (\u201cI\u2019m tempted to say Conservatism\u201d)
Gregg: Pacific Gateway
Hebert: Environment
Russo: Income splitting<\/p>\n
Coyne: Maxime Bernier
Gregg: Jim Prentice and aboriginal file
Hebert: Alberta Liberal leader Kevin Taft (\u201cand I did look up his name\u201d)
Russo: Philip Couillard<\/p>\n
Chris Charlton
Daniel McKenzie
Elijah McCoy
Honora McKendrick<\/p>\n