{"id":2436,"date":"2009-10-01T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2009-10-01T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T22:04:00","slug":"abstinence-only-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2436","title":{"rendered":"Abstinence Only Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Nothing makes people more cynical about politics than when parties don&#8217;t do what they say, don&#8217;t stand up for what they believe.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/bcinto.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/jack-layton-on-abstentions.html\">Jack Layton, 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SsUo9x4W76I\/AAAAAAAABYs\/tShMTM1pBEQ\/s1600-h\/LaytonJob.jpg\"><img style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 285px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387757571045519266\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SsUo9x4W76I\/AAAAAAAABYs\/tShMTM1pBEQ\/s320\/LaytonJob.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/canadianpress\/article\/ALeqM5jyAUz4-BkOzTPPQSRvrVXV8zifGg\">TODAY<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The House of Commons voted 144-117 today against a Liberal motion to bring down the minority Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals and Bloc Quebecois supported the motion while the Tories opposed it and <strong>the NDP abstained<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nothing makes people more cynical about politics than when parties don&#8217;t do what they say, don&#8217;t stand up for what they believe.&#8221;&#8211;Jack Layton, 2007 TODAY: The House of Commons voted 144-117 today against a Liberal motion to bring down the minority Conservatives. The Liberals and Bloc Quebecois supported the motion while the Tories opposed it [&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\/2436"}],"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=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}