{"id":2259,"date":"2009-05-07T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2009-05-07T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T00:20:00","slug":"the-best-things-ive-heard-about-michael-ignatieff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2259","title":{"rendered":"The Best Things I&#8217;ve Heard About Michael Ignatieff&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;come from Gilles <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Duceppe<\/span>. Seriously &#8211; had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090507.wPOLbloc0507\/BNStory\/politics\/home\">this<\/a> been the image MI put forward <em>himself<\/em> in the past, I would have been very tempted to support him in one of the past two leadership races:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The central targets for the Bloc are Mr. <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Ignatieff&#8217;s<\/span> general demeanour, as well as any past opinion that can be used to paint him as <strong>a centralizing, anti-nationalist leader in the mould of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Ignatieff<\/span> says that <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Quebeckers<\/span> can choose to be <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Quebeckers<\/span> or Canadians, in any order. <strong>You can be what you want, he tells us, but you can be sure that his Liberal policies will be Canadian, period<\/strong>,\u201d Mr. <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Duceppe<\/span> said in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>The new Liberal Leader, according to the Bloc, will thwart Quebec&#8217;s interests by proposing <strong>national education standards and a pan-Canadian energy policy<\/strong>, both of which would go against the province&#8217;s jurisdiction over education and natural resources.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;come from Gilles Duceppe. Seriously &#8211; had this been the image MI put forward himself in the past, I would have been very tempted to support him in one of the past two leadership races: The central targets for the Bloc are Mr. Ignatieff&#8217;s general demeanour, as well as any past opinion that can be [&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\/2259"}],"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=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}