{"id":2029,"date":"2008-11-14T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2008-11-14T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T23:56:00","slug":"and-the-critics-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2029","title":{"rendered":"And the critics are&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberal.ca\/pdf\/docs\/081114_critics_list_en.pdf\">Liberal Shadow Cabinet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>-Bob Rae, Michael Ignatieff, and Dominic LeBlanc are nowhere to be seen. Ruby Dhalla, however, is the Labour critic. I&#8217;ll let my readers connect the dots on this one.<\/p>\n<p>-Scott Brison replaces John McCallum in the VERY important Finance critic position. After watching Brison beat up on Flaherty at a CBC forum during the election, I really like this choice.<\/p>\n<p>-In another good move, Gerard Kennedy lands in Industry. While he&#8217;s better associated with social issues, Kennedy made innovation and enterprise a key plank of his last election campaign and has been lecturing at Ryerson on this topic since then.<\/p>\n<p>-Marc Garneau gets Science and Technology. Can you say &#8220;typecast&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>-Justin Trudeau and most of the newcomers land associate critic roles.<\/p>\n<p>-Conspicuously absent are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1253532\">Scott Andrews, Jimmy K and Joe Volpe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights from the Liberal Shadow Cabinet: -Bob Rae, Michael Ignatieff, and Dominic LeBlanc are nowhere to be seen. Ruby Dhalla, however, is the Labour critic. I&#8217;ll let my readers connect the dots on this one. -Scott Brison replaces John McCallum in the VERY important Finance critic position. After watching Brison beat up on Flaherty at [&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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029"}],"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=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}