{"id":2438,"date":"2009-10-02T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2009-10-02T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T12:23:00","slug":"end-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2438","title":{"rendered":"End Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve heard a lot of about Denis Coderre’s “leadership ambitions” this week. And, at least among Liberals I know outside of Quebec, this topic has usually drawn snickers.<\/p>\n

Coderre certainly didn’t help his already Volpeskian chances by going out in a self-destructive blaze of glory<\/a> Monday, blaming the party’s problems on a Toronto-heavy brain trust. Maybe it was a clever ploy to position himself as an outsider against Toronto in a future leadership race – but given what we know about Coderre, I have some doubts about that.<\/p>\n

Then again, perhaps the LPC isn’t the Liberal Party Coderre hopes to one day lead. Given his organizational muscle in the province, he’d certainly be a legitimate contender provincially once Jean Charest eventually calls it a day. And distancing himself from the federal Liberals and playing the “Toronto card” probably won’t hurt him among the Quebec militants<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I don’t have any anonymous senior Liberal strategists to go on for this – just the musings of a fairly bright Liberal who floated the idea to me yesterday. But it’s a theory that makes a bit of sense once you think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve heard a lot of about Denis Coderre’s “leadership ambitions” this week. And, at least among Liberals I know outside of Quebec, this topic has usually drawn snickers. Coderre certainly didn’t help his already Volpeskian chances by going out in a self-destructive blaze of glory Monday, blaming the party’s problems on a Toronto-heavy brain trust. […]<\/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\/2438"}],"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=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}