{"id":1875,"date":"2008-08-25T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2008-08-25T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T01:30:00","slug":"the-talking-points-they-are-a-changin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1875","title":{"rendered":"The Talking Points, They Are A Changin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>July 23, 2008: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/Canada\/article\/465864\">Canadians Ready for a Fall Election, Dion Says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>August 24, 2008: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/Canada\/article\/484893\">Dion Says Harper Could Reconsider Election Call<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Layton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/nanaimodailynews\/news\/story.html?id=9aff55f9-f343-4dd9-b1c0-72ebd79ce0ed\">August 8, 2008<\/a><em>: Told that Canadians are wondering when the next election will be, Layton&#8217;s response was, &#8220;Me too, the sooner the better.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>August 21, 2008: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2008\/08\/21\/ndp-election.html\">NDP Leader Against Early Election Call<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Harper<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/><em>&#8220;What we have achieved over the fall and particularly over the spring, I think it&#8217;s a remarkable record of achievement.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">-Stephen Harper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/topics\/news\/story.html?id=dc6ad4e4-3f15-4525-9b9e-fec24fcf6714\">June 2008<\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><em>\u201cQuite frankly, I&#8217;m going to have to make a judgment in the next little while as to whether or not this Parliament can function productively.\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n<div align=\"right\">-Stephen Harper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080814.wharper15\/BNStory\/National\/home\">August 2008<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dion July 23, 2008: Canadians Ready for a Fall Election, Dion Says August 24, 2008: Dion Says Harper Could Reconsider Election Call Layton August 8, 2008: Told that Canadians are wondering when the next election will be, Layton&#8217;s response was, &#8220;Me too, the sooner the better.&#8221; August 21, 2008: NDP Leader Against Early Election Call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875"}],"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=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}