{"id":2060,"date":"2008-11-30T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2008-11-30T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T04:22:00","slug":"coalition-coalescing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2060","title":{"rendered":"Coalition Coalescing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The NDP and Liberals have reached a deal to topple the minority Conservative government and take power themselves in a coalition, CBC News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>A deal has been negotiated between NDP Leader Jack Layton and Liberal Leader St\u00e9phane Dion that would see them form a coalition government for two and a half years, the CBC&#8217;s Keith Boag reported, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>The NDP would be invited into cabinet and get 25 per cent of seats, Boag said, adding that the party wouldn&#8217;t get the position of the finance chair or the deputy prime minister&#8217;s post.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2008\/11\/30\/canada-coalition.html\">No word yet<\/a> on which portfolios the NDP would get: Minister of Working Families? Minister of Results for People? Minister of Kitchen Table Issues?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NDP and Liberals have reached a deal to topple the minority Conservative government and take power themselves in a coalition, CBC News has learned. A deal has been negotiated between NDP Leader Jack Layton and Liberal Leader St\u00e9phane Dion that would see them form a coalition government for two and a half years, the [&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\/2060"}],"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=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}