{"id":1679,"date":"2008-02-27T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2008-02-27T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T02:03:00","slug":"pc-mlas-call-for-a-new-nep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"PC MLAs call for a new NEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, no, but that&#8217;s how Ed Stelmach spins it whenever anyone else makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/calgaryherald\/news\/story.html?id=3a678638-2c37-4da6-ae72-30f8151a3f0b\">this suggestion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wWBW6xZX6uU&amp;rel=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wWBW6xZX6uU&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You can see the full results from the Pembina institute survey of candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilsandswatch.org\/docs\/ac-survey-backgrounder.pdf\">here<\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re still trying to figure out your vote, you can check out the party leaders on the eye opener:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbc.ca\/calgary\/media\/audio\/eyeopener\/2008022525_STELM.ram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Feb. 25th: Ed Stelmach of the Conservative Party<\/a> (13:11)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cbc.ca\/calgary\/media\/audio\/eyeopener\/2008021414_MASON.ram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Feb. 14th: Brian Mason of the NDP<\/a> (13:38)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cbc.ca\/calgary\/media\/audio\/eyeopener\/20080212GEORGE_R.ram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Feb. 12th: George Read of the Green Party<\/a> (12:25)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cbc.ca\/calgary\/media\/audio\/eyeopener\/200802066TAFT.ram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Feb. 6th: Kevin Taft of the Liberal Party<\/a> (12:24)<\/p>\n<p>My favourite Stelmachism from his interview &#8211; &#8220;it&#8217;s very easy now to predict the past&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonsun.com\/News\/Election\/2008\/02\/27\/4879361-sun.html\">it&#8217;s come out<\/a> that the Tories appointed MLA and candidate Thomas Lukaszuk&#8217;s former EA as the returning officer in Edmonton-Castle Downs, a riding Lukaszuk won by 5 votes after a recount in 2004. It&#8217;s almost at the point where all you can do is just laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, no, but that&#8217;s how Ed Stelmach spins it whenever anyone else makes this suggestion: You can see the full results from the Pembina institute survey of candidates here. If you&#8217;re still trying to figure out your vote, you can check out the party leaders on the eye opener: Feb. 25th: Ed Stelmach of the [&hellip;]<\/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":[71],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"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=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}