{"id":2113,"date":"2008-12-20T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2008-12-20T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T17:03:00","slug":"the-small-man-of-confederation-gets-his-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"The Small Man of Confederation Gets his Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Ontarians have shown themselves to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadaeast.com\/election\/article\/447348\">responsible voters<\/a>, Stephen Harper has agreed to give the province <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/posted\/archive\/2008\/12\/17\/harper-agrees-to-give-ontario-21-more-seats-in-house.aspx\">21 more seats<\/a> at the next redistribution.<\/p>\n<p>If we assume that these seats, plus the 7 new ones in BC and 5 in Alberta, break down along current support lines, here&#8217;s what the current parliament would look like (with the seats gained for each party in brackets):<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">CPC<\/span>  162 (+19)<br \/>Lib  86 (+9)<br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">NDP<\/span>  42 (+5)<br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">BQ<\/span>  49<br \/>Ind  2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Ontarians have shown themselves to be responsible voters, Stephen Harper has agreed to give the province 21 more seats at the next redistribution. If we assume that these seats, plus the 7 new ones in BC and 5 in Alberta, break down along current support lines, here&#8217;s what the current parliament would look [&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\/2113"}],"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=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}