{"id":2295,"date":"2009-06-03T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2009-06-03T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T22:09:00","slug":"second-raitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2295","title":{"rendered":"Second Raitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Raitt is in trouble for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20090603\/AECL_raitt_follow_090603\/20090603?hub=TopStories\">leaving behind confidential AECL documents at a CTV studio<\/a>. Before jumping in to this meltdown, kudos to Bob Rae for <a href=\"http:\/\/farnwide.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/bob-rae-defends-raitt.html\">one of the best lines of the year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">&#8220;One plausible explanation is maybe she thought CTV was a branch of the government, I can&#8217;t explain it&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As for Raitt, this one is definitely unfortunate \u2013 she was a rising star in the government, and people of all political stripes describe her as likeable and bright. But the Bernier precedent has been set (even if the circumstances aren&#8217;t <em>completely<\/em> identical), and there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a way around it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;It obviously was not done on purpose. It was a mistake. But it doesn&#8217;t matter. It was clearly done and that has to be treated appropriately. There are precedents and this obviously is a warning to all Ministers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Macleans.ca, May 26 2008<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Raitt is in trouble for leaving behind confidential AECL documents at a CTV studio. Before jumping in to this meltdown, kudos to Bob Rae for one of the best lines of the year: &#8220;One plausible explanation is maybe she thought CTV was a branch of the government, I can&#8217;t explain it&#8221; As for Raitt, [&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\/2295"}],"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=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}