{"id":2311,"date":"2009-06-17T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2009-06-17T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T15:02:00","slug":"peace-in-our-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2311","title":{"rendered":"Peace in our time"},"content":{"rendered":"

A deal has been reached<\/a>! A summer election has been averted! Instead, Canadians will almost certainly be given the joy of a wildly popular<\/em> November\/December election!<\/p>\n

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Sources say Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff<\/span> have finalized the details of an agreement that will preserve the Conservatives’ minority government – for now.<\/p>\n

Under the deal, the parties will each pick two members of a blue-ribbon panel to recommend changes to employment insurance, including coverage for self-employed workers and lower eligibility thresholds.<\/p>\n

There will also be more opposition days for the Liberals, which will give them more chances to force a federal election in the fall.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Score this one as a major win for Ignatieff<\/span>. Not only did he avert an election he likely would have won, but Harper agreed to take Ignatieff’s<\/span> only real issue (EI<\/span>) off the table for the foreseeable<\/span> future by appointing a blue ribbon<\/span> panel to examine it. Because, after all, this issue certainly requires the sort of immediate action and attention that only appointing a commission to study it further can deliver!<\/p>\n

OK, OK. On a serious note, while Iggy comes out of this mess looking a bit clumsy, getting the opposition days in the falls presumably gives the Liberals a fall election if they want it, and personally I think they’d fare better then than now.<\/p>\n

So let’s just all enjoy our summer and be glad our parliamentarians showed a relative degree of maturity for once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A deal has been reached! A summer election has been averted! Instead, Canadians will almost certainly be given the joy of a wildly popular November\/December election! Sources say Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff have finalized the details of an agreement that will preserve the Conservatives’ minority government – for now. Under […]<\/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\/2311"}],"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=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}