{"id":1815,"date":"2008-06-23T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2008-06-23T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:08:00","slug":"better-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"Better Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Naheed<\/span> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Nenshi<\/span> of the Better Calgary Campaign had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/calgaryherald\/news\/theeditorialpage\/story.html?id=02a88808-01a2-4ae5-a924-d35aa672ad9a&amp;p=1\">Herald op-ed<\/a> on Thursday about the future of the Alberta Liberal Party. In addition to floating a new name for ALP leadership, Naheed rejects the <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/new-liberal.html\">New Liberal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/unite-left.html\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">NDP<\/span> merger<\/a> options, and casts his vote for:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The final group has the best solution: start all over, with or without the Liberal party apparatus supporting the effort. Invite everyone from Preston Manning to Roy <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Romanow<\/span> to discuss how they led change.<\/p>\n<p>More important, have an honest, open discussion with Albertans about the kind of change they want to see: fiscally conservative and socially responsible? Ask them what could be improved in the province: less corruption and cronyism, a bolder vision for the future, much more environmental responsibility?<\/p>\n<p>Use the results to form something new. My guess is that it will look a lot like the current Alberta Liberals, whose platform was always much more popular than their party, but maybe not. What I do know is that it will reflect what voters want, not what elites think they should have.<\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naheed Nenshi of the Better Calgary Campaign had a Herald op-ed on Thursday about the future of the Alberta Liberal Party. In addition to floating a new name for ALP leadership, Naheed rejects the New Liberal and NDP merger options, and casts his vote for: The final group has the best solution: start all over, [&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-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","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=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}