{"id":2431,"date":"2009-09-28T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2009-09-28T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T15:57:00","slug":"coderre-allowing-grass-roots-to-have-a-say-in-nominations-is-a-slap-in-the-face-to-the-grass-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2431","title":{"rendered":"Coderre: Allowing grass roots to have a say in nominations is a slap in the face to the grass roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.660news.com\/news\/national\/more.jsp?content=n282189520\">MONTREAL <\/a>&#8211; Liberal stalwart Denis Coderre has resigned as the party&#8217;s Quebec lieutenant and defence critic.<\/p>\n<p>He says he will remain a member of Parliament but no longer believes he has the confidence of his leader, Michael Ignatieff. Coderre has expressed support for the leader, but fired a shot in Ignatieff&#8217;s direction at a news conference in Montreal this morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He says events of recent days send a message that the Liberal Party of Canada is run by Toronto advisers &#8211; not by party members close to the grassroots<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, be sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2009\/09\/28\/denis-coderre-classy\/\">Wells<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.blogs.com\/politics\/2009\/09\/liberal-past-meets-liberal-present.html\">Delacourt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8211; Liberal stalwart Denis Coderre has resigned as the party&#8217;s Quebec lieutenant and defence critic. He says he will remain a member of Parliament but no longer believes he has the confidence of his leader, Michael Ignatieff. Coderre has expressed support for the leader, but fired a shot in Ignatieff&#8217;s direction at a news [&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\/2431"}],"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=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}