{"id":1852,"date":"2008-07-31T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2008-07-31T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T03:15:00","slug":"historical-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"Historical Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Mr. Harper said the Conservatives did \u201cmore in three years\u201d than the Liberals in their last 13 years in office, or than the Bloc could ever do in \u201c113 years in o<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">pposition<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080730.wharper31\/BNStory\/Front\/?page=rss&amp;id=RTGAM.20080730.wharper31\">Fair enough<\/a>. After all, I think <em>creating<\/em> a deficit is at least as hard as <em>eliminating<\/em> one.<\/p>\n<p>And while I expect politicians to tout their own record, I was slightly bemused by Ed <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Stelmach&#8217;s response to the latest round of decentralization,<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080730.wautonomy0730\/BNStory\/National\/home\">claiming that<\/a> \u201c<em>this is, without a doubt, the most significant policy change in the federal government in at least 25 years<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly Ed <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">wasn<\/span>\u2019t snubbing Brian Mulroney\u2019s termination of the evil <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">NEP<\/span>, a move which single-<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">handedly<\/span> caused the world price of oil to rise, Alberta hockey teams to win a half dozen Stanley Cups, and Alberta\u2019s economy to rebound a short 10 years later?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">wouldn<\/span>\u2019t the single most important policy change in the history of the world get top billing over an announcement that (if you read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080730.wautonomy0730\/BNStory\/National\/home\">the article<\/a>) <em>may or may not<\/em> reflect an actual change in policy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Harper said the Conservatives did \u201cmore in three years\u201d than the Liberals in their last 13 years in office, or than the Bloc could ever do in \u201c113 years in opposition.\u201d Fair enough. After all, I think creating a deficit is at least as hard as eliminating one. And while I expect politicians to [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","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=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}