{"id":1783,"date":"2008-05-27T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2008-05-27T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T02:31:00","slug":"so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-joe-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"So long, and thanks for all the Joe Louis&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Highlights from <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Maxime<\/span> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Bernier&#8217;s<\/span> 9 Months in Foreign Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>April 18, 2008: <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Maxime<\/span> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Bernier<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20080527\/bernier_history_080527\/20080527?hub=Specials\">suggests<\/a> that Afghan President Hamid <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Karzai<\/span> replace the <a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SDzEfirCsMI\/AAAAAAAAAbs\/GUfjN82RBFM\/s1600-h\/bernier+joe+louis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205251315495776450\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SDzEfirCsMI\/AAAAAAAAAbs\/GUfjN82RBFM\/s320\/bernier+joe+louis.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>governor of Kandahar, setting off an international uproar.<\/p>\n<p>May 7, 2008: The &#8220;hey, hey, you, you, I don&#8217;t like your girlfriend scandal&#8221; breaks wide open, with opposition parties pouncing on connections between <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Bernier&#8217;s<\/span> ex and biker gangs.<\/p>\n<p>May 21, 2008: <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">Bernier<\/span> pledges that Canada will ship helicopters to Myanmar using an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20080523.BERNIER23\/TPStory\/National\">available<\/a>&#8221; CF-17. One problem &#8211; there are no available CF-17s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SDzEUCrCsKI\/AAAAAAAAAbc\/9jaCOuav-AA\/s1600-h\/CouillardBernier.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205251117927280802\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SDzEUCrCsKI\/AAAAAAAAAbc\/9jaCOuav-AA\/s200\/CouillardBernier.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>May 26, 2008: <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_7\">Bernier<\/span> resigns after it is revealed he left confidential documents at Julie <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_8\">Couillard&#8217;s<\/span> house.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, foreign affairs drew fire for the handling of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/story.html?id=412823\">Brenda Martin file<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080524.wdisasterrelief0524\/BNStory\/National\/?page=rss&amp;id=RTGAM.20080524.wdisasterrelief0524\">aid to China and Burma<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/jasoncherniak.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/dont-bury-lead.html\">gaggle of other screw-ups<\/a>. Oh, and he got the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080526.wbernierresign0526\/BNStory\/National\/home\">name of the Haitian President wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205265102340796642\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SDzRCCrCsOI\/AAAAAAAAAb8\/YPr7py2fd0E\/s400\/maxime6.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights from Maxime Bernier&#8217;s 9 Months in Foreign Affairs April 18, 2008: Maxime Bernier suggests that Afghan President Hamid Karzai replace the governor of Kandahar, setting off an international uproar. May 7, 2008: The &#8220;hey, hey, you, you, I don&#8217;t like your girlfriend scandal&#8221; breaks wide open, with opposition parties pouncing on connections between Bernier&#8217;s [&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-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","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=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}