{"id":2357,"date":"2009-08-08T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2009-08-08T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T13:23:00","slug":"silliest-scandal-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2357","title":{"rendered":"Silliest Scandal Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a close round of voting<\/a>, we have our top 10, in the quest to find Canada’s silliest scandal.<\/p>\n

10. Sexgate<\/strong>: Alberta Premier John Brownlee goes down in defeat over a Berlusconi-esque sex scandal, with his UFA party completely wiped out – one of 3 government changes in the province’s history. Only problem is, most historians have concluded the charges were mostly bogus.<\/p>\n

9. Startovergate<\/strong>: A reported asks Stephane Dion a poorly worded question with mangled verb tenses. Dion asks for clarification. This showed he was not a leader.<\/p>\n

8. The billion dollar boondogglegate<\/strong>: If nothing else, the opposition deserves credit for branding this one. Only problem is, the “boondoggle” in question wasn’t even remotely close to a billion dollars. Or a million. Try 85 grand. And Jane Stewart’s career went down in flames over something which didn’t even happen on her watch.<\/p>\n

7. Scantily-clad-womangate<\/strong>: NDP MP Irene Mathyssen catches James Moore looking at somewhat revealing pictures on his lap top. She raised a stink, then sheepishly appologized when Moore explained they were pictures of his girlfriend.<\/p>\n

6. Fuddle Duddlegate<\/strong>: Trudeau dropped an F-bomb. Everyone knew he dropped an F bomb. And yet, debate swirled over what he’d actually said.<\/p>\n

5. Handshakegate<\/strong>: Stephen Harper shakes his son’s hand, instead of giving him a bear hug on the first day of school. Asshole bloggers have a field day with it.<\/p>\n

4. Lost luggagegate<\/strong>: An airline loses Joe Clark’s luggage. And, somehow, this made him not suitable to be Prime Minister. Him and everyone else who has ever flown Air Canada.<\/p>\n

3. Doangate<\/strong>: The BQ questions the naming of Shane Doan as Team Canada’s captain. And other parties, believing this is a good idea , jump in.<\/p>\n

Which means our winner will be one of the following two scandals. Polls are open until Monday evening at 8 pm.<\/p>\n

Footballgate<\/strong>: Robert Stanfield drops a football. Something Randy Moss does a few dozen times a season. Again, this made him not suitable to be Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

Wafergate<\/strong>: Stephen Harper may have eaten a cracker. Or not. No one really knows. Yet this story consumed the media’s attention all summer long.<\/p>\n

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What was Canada’s silliest scandal?<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWafergate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFootballgate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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After a close round of voting, we have our top 10, in the quest to find Canada’s silliest scandal. 10. Sexgate: Alberta Premier John Brownlee goes down in defeat over a Berlusconi-esque sex scandal, with his UFA party completely wiped out – one of 3 government changes in the province’s history. Only problem is, most […]<\/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\/2357"}],"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=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}