{"id":2447,"date":"2009-10-08T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2009-10-08T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T11:45:00","slug":"warning-the-following-subject-matter-may-not-be-suitable-for-all-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"Warning: The following subject matter may not be suitable for all voters."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20091008\/ignatieff_deficit_091008\/20091008?hub=Canada\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">OTTAWA <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">\u2014 Michael Ignatieff insisted Wednesday he has no plan to raise taxes, <strong>denying a report that he&#8217;s about to embark on a politically risky &#8220;adult conversation&#8221; with Canadians <\/strong>about the painful measures necessary to eliminate the country&#8217;s ballooning deficit.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I tend to agree that a promise of raising taxes might not be the wisest strategy, what does it say about the state of our political system when party leaders have to deny reports that they&#8217;re going to treat the voters like adults?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Michael Ignatieff insisted Wednesday he has no plan to raise taxes, denying a report that he&#8217;s about to embark on a politically risky &#8220;adult conversation&#8221; with Canadians about the painful measures necessary to eliminate the country&#8217;s ballooning deficit. While I tend to agree that a promise of raising taxes might not be the [&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\/2447"}],"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=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}