{"id":2054,"date":"2008-11-28T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2008-11-28T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T01:06:00","slug":"memory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2054","title":{"rendered":"Memory Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080923.welxnnocoalition0923\/BNStory\/politics\/\">September 23, 2008 <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">BURNABY, B.C. \u2014 Liberal Leader St\u00e9phane Dion flatly rejected forming a coalition government with the New Democrats today on the heels of hints from NDP Leader Jack Layton that he&#8217;d be open to the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dion, speaking after an address to a Vancouver-area business crowd today, said he could not work with Mr. Layton in this way because the NDP leader wants to hike taxes on business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot have a coalition with a party that has a platform that would be damaging for the economy. Period,\u201d the Liberal leader said.<\/p>\n<p>He made fun of trouble plaguing some NDP candidates in B.C., joking that Mr. Layton<br \/>already has a lot of coalitions under way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Layton already has a coalition, I understand. He has a coalition with the nudist party [and] a coalition with the marijuana party,\u201d he said, referring to NDP candidates who&#8217;d been outed as having smoked marijuana and one who&#8217;d resigned today after it was revealed he&#8217;d previously skinny dipped in front of teens.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/Front\/9009594.html\">About an hour ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">OTTAWA \u2014 The Bloc Quebecois and the NDP have tentatively agreed to back Stephane Dion as prime minister, leading a coalition government, a senior Liberal source said late Friday.<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 23, 2008 BURNABY, B.C. \u2014 Liberal Leader St\u00e9phane Dion flatly rejected forming a coalition government with the New Democrats today on the heels of hints from NDP Leader Jack Layton that he&#8217;d be open to the idea. Mr. Dion, speaking after an address to a Vancouver-area business crowd today, said he could not work [&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\/2054"}],"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=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}