{"id":2074,"date":"2008-12-04T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2008-12-04T00:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T05:13:00","slug":"sorry-for-not-commenting-on-the-tv-addresses-to-the-nations-sooner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2074","title":{"rendered":"Sorry for not commenting on the TV address(es) to the nation(s) sooner…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…there was a delay in the delivery of my blog post.<\/p>\n

I don’t have much to say about the speeches, other than this whole rumpus continues to remind me of May 2005<\/a>. I kept expecting Harper to end his speech talking about how his father brought him to Parliament Hill as a child<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There was really nothing new in the speeches<\/a> – they were basically 5 minute summaries of the talking points, attacks, and spin we’ve all spent every waking hour of the past week<\/span> following intensely. In that respect, this may have been a good way to summarize the conflict for Canadians. One of the results of this whole ordeal will hopefully be a heightened understanding of our political system by the general population. I know I intend to slip the word “prorogue” into everyday conversation as much as possible over the next week or two!<\/p>\n

Beyond that, I don’t have much to say. I had a drinking game where I took a shot every time Harper said “separatist”, so I was pretty tanked by the time the other leaders came on (if only I’d watched his speech in French, I’d have stayed perfectly sober!). I was hoping against hope that Harper would speak in a conciliatory tone, apologize, and offer a plan. I think that would have played well but, knowing this man, that was too much to expect.<\/p>\n

As for Dion – good content but the webcam<\/span> was a disaster. Maybe this is part of a grand fund raising plan and I’ll get a letter from Doug Ferguson tomorrow saying “donate now! help us buy a camcorder!<\/span>“, but failing that, it was a mess-up that took away from an otherwise very well argued case.<\/p>\n

So, tomorrow, Harper visits the Governor General. Presumably this trip is about more than looking over her vacation pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…there was a delay in the delivery of my blog post. I don’t have much to say about the speeches, other than this whole rumpus continues to remind me of May 2005. I kept expecting Harper to end his speech talking about how his father brought him to Parliament Hill as a child. There was […]<\/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\/2074"}],"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=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}