{"id":2384,"date":"2009-08-29T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2009-08-29T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T20:11:00","slug":"in-fairness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2384","title":{"rendered":"In Fairness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve given Stevie a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/entitled-to-their-entitlements-2009.html\">a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/same-old-same-old.html\">hard<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/even-stephen.html\">time<\/a> on these Senate appointments. But this Liberal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/687743\">line of attack<\/a> rings fairly hollow:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">&#8220;He is unequalled in Canadian history as the only prime minister to have made 27 Senate appointments in a single year and he beat (Conservative prime minister) Robert Borden who made 26 (in 1917)&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Harper has done exactly the same thing as every single Prime Minister that preceded him: He has filled Senate positions when they opened up. Yeah, yeah, he dithered about it at first, leading to a big total in 2009, but &#8220;Patronage King&#8221; is a bit rich, given the number of appointments Liberals have made over the years.<\/p>\n<p>That said, to the Conservatives snickering about how the Liberals were no better, Paul Martin did appoint 4 Tories and 1 Dipper to the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve given Stevie a bit of a hard time on these Senate appointments. But this Liberal line of attack rings fairly hollow: &#8220;He is unequalled in Canadian history as the only prime minister to have made 27 Senate appointments in a single year and he beat (Conservative prime minister) Robert Borden who made 26 (in [&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\/2384"}],"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=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}