{"id":1541,"date":"2007-10-16T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2007-10-16T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T01:50:00","slug":"de-throned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"De-Throned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">baaaaaack<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s New Government gave it&#8217;s second throne speech tonight. And since we&#8217;ve had a month of daily election speculation around it, let&#8217;s start there. With the Bloc and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">NDP<\/span> against it, it&#8217;s all in Dion&#8217;s hands now. And while there are certainly some ominous promises, throne speeches are vague enough that the Liberals can likely let it pass.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it&#8217;s going to be a challenge to make it to Christmas without a lack of confidence vote given the following promises in today&#8217;s speech:<\/p>\n<p>-an elected senate<br \/>-previously defeated crime legislation<br \/>-repeal the gun registry<br \/>-limit federal spending powers<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;looks like we&#8217;re in for a few months of election speculation stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE<\/em><\/strong>: Dion will let the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20071017.wthronereply1017\/BNStory\/National\/home\">throne speech pass <\/a>but Harper says his first bill will be a crime bill that will be a confidence motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re baaaaaack! Canada&#8217;s New Government gave it&#8217;s second throne speech tonight. And since we&#8217;ve had a month of daily election speculation around it, let&#8217;s start there. With the Bloc and NDP against it, it&#8217;s all in Dion&#8217;s hands now. And while there are certainly some ominous promises, throne speeches are vague enough that the Liberals [&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-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","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=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}