{"id":2414,"date":"2009-09-16T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2009-09-16T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T17:22:00","slug":"and-the-little-one-said-roll-over-roll-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2414","title":{"rendered":"And the little one said &quot;roll over, roll over&quot;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/ndp-to-prop-up-tories-until-ei-money-flows\/article1289920\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">NDP to prop up Tories until EI money flows <\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The NDP say they will vote to prop up the Conservative government this week and for some time \u2013 probably through the fall \u2013 if the Harper government follows through on promises to expand employment-insurance benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The New Democrats deputy leader, Thomas Mulcair, expressed his party&#8217;s inclination to keep Stephen Harper&#8217;s government alive until the employment-insurance money flows.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after a Wednesday morning caucus meeting, Mr. Mulcair, said his party wants to back an EI expansion promised by Human Resources Minister Diane Finley \u2013 as long as the $1-billion in extra funding is really there when the details come out.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDP to prop up Tories until EI money flows The NDP say they will vote to prop up the Conservative government this week and for some time \u2013 probably through the fall \u2013 if the Harper government follows through on promises to expand employment-insurance benefits. The New Democrats deputy leader, Thomas Mulcair, expressed his party&#8217;s [&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\/2414"}],"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=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}