{"id":1443,"date":"2007-07-03T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2007-07-03T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T18:08:00","slug":"entitled-to-his-entitlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"Entitled to his Entitlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the government announces something on the Friday before the Canada Day long weekend, it&#8217;s usually a sign that they hope people won&#8217;t pay a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/saskatoonstarphoenix\/news\/national\/story.html?id=ca9d1547-7e06-4fbd-9b08-fb54a92fc0bc\">attention to it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">OTTAWA &#8212; The Harper government has given a longtime Ottawa Conservative a plum patronage spot at the Royal Canadian Mint &#8212; once at the centre of Tory wrath over a prominent Liberal who had a patronage job there.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon quietly announced on Friday that Claude Bennett, a former provincial Conservative cabinet minister who led the controversial municipal amalgamation of the Ottawa region, will be a director on the mint&#8217;s board.<\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meet the new government&#8230;same as the old government&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the government announces something on the Friday before the Canada Day long weekend, it&#8217;s usually a sign that they hope people won&#8217;t pay a lot of attention to it: OTTAWA &#8212; The Harper government has given a longtime Ottawa Conservative a plum patronage spot at the Royal Canadian Mint &#8212; once at the centre [&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-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","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=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}