{"id":1781,"date":"2008-05-27T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2008-05-27T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T04:59:00","slug":"things-i-now-care-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"Things I Now Care About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maxime<\/span> Bernier’s<\/span> ex-girlfriends<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What looked like a non-issue a week ago<\/a> has exploded with the surprising firing\/resignation of Maxime<\/span> Bernier<\/span>, ending a rather underwhelming year as foreign affairs minister. Once touted as a possible heir to Harper, his political future is pretty much toast:<\/p>\n

Maxime<\/span> Bernier<\/span> has resigned as foreign affairs minister, after he acknowledged leaving sensitive government documents out in the open — apparently at his former girlfriend’s home.<\/p>\n

Sources told CTV<\/span> News the documents included classified information for last April’s NATO summit in Romania. One sensitive document contained details about NATO’s<\/span> military strategy in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Leaving your stuff at an ex’s<\/span> is always awkward, so I’d image when it’s confidential NATO files, “awkward” doesn’t even begin to describe it.<\/p>\n

So Bernier<\/span> is out and the former Liberal David Emerson becomes Harper’s third foreign affairs minister, with a shuffle expected this summer, at which point some other poor sucker<\/a> will get the job. Although it’s a difficult portfolio, I can’t for the life of me imagine them faring any worse than Bernier<\/span>, who has now given Harper one of the larger black eyes of his time as PM thus far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maxime Bernier’s ex-girlfriends. What looked like a non-issue a week ago has exploded with the surprising firing\/resignation of Maxime Bernier, ending a rather underwhelming year as foreign affairs minister. Once touted as a possible heir to Harper, his political future is pretty much toast: Maxime Bernier has resigned as foreign affairs minister, after he acknowledged […]<\/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-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","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=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}