{"id":2394,"date":"2009-09-03T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2009-09-03T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T12:04:00","slug":"playing-hard-to-get-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2394","title":{"rendered":"Playing hard to get &#8211; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cIs an election the answer? No, a change of direction is. But if the Liberals come through with a non-confidence motion, don\u2019t hold your breath that the NDP will back up Mr. Harper \u2014 you\u2019d fall over.\u201d<\/em><br \/>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kapuskasingtimes.com\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1726473\">Jack Layton, last week<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>NDP Leader Jack Layton is to hold a news conference Thursday to clarify the party\u2019s position.<\/p>\n<p>A key source said Layton will announce that he\u2019s willing to support the government on a case-by-case basis if it backs NDP private members bills on issues such as extending EI benefits, measures to help seniors, and regulating credit card rates.<\/p>\n<p>And Layton will even give Harper some wiggle room, stopping short of presenting a specific \u201cshopping list.\u201d <\/em><br \/>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/Politics\/2009\/09\/02\/10724651-cp.html\">Yesterday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIs an election the answer? No, a change of direction is. But if the Liberals come through with a non-confidence motion, don\u2019t hold your breath that the NDP will back up Mr. Harper \u2014 you\u2019d fall over.\u201d&#8211;Jack Layton, last week NDP Leader Jack Layton is to hold a news conference Thursday to clarify the party\u2019s [&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\/2394"}],"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=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}