{"id":1818,"date":"2008-06-24T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2008-06-24T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T02:54:00","slug":"paradis-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1818","title":{"rendered":"Paradis Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> ‘Tis<\/span><\/span> the season<\/a> to shuffle<\/a>, and Harper is set to do the dance tomorrow. According to the Globe<\/a>, Emerson will stay in Foreign Affairs (take a bow, the 29% of you who called it<\/a>) – if you can’t find a competent Conservative, might as well turn to a Liberal.<\/p>\n

It sounds like Christian Paradis<\/span><\/span>, who I would have a hard time picking out of a lineup, gets promoted to public works, proving the age-old adage “good things come to those who do not date Julie Couillard<\/span><\/em>“. That means Senator Fortier<\/span><\/span> replaces Emerson in international trade.<\/p>\n

Should there be any surprises tomorrow (Anders to Foreign Affairs pleeeeeeease<\/span><\/em>!), I’ll be sure to post them, but after a glitzy scandal, I think a low key shuffle like this is probably what Harper is looking for.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> High of 28 in Ottawa today, but I’m expecting we won’t be seeing much skin at this swearing in. If we do, you can bet Kady<\/span> will have the full details in her live blog<\/a> of the events.<\/p>\n

And it appears James Moore is finally<\/em> getting into Cabinet as a Secretary of State, after being forced to grin and bear it on the Cadman<\/span> file for months. Certainly a well deserved, and somewhat belated, appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Tis the season to shuffle, and Harper is set to do the dance tomorrow. According to the Globe, Emerson will stay in Foreign Affairs (take a bow, the 29% of you who called it) – if you can’t find a competent Conservative, might as well turn to a Liberal. It sounds like Christian Paradis, who […]<\/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-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","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=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}