{"id":2502,"date":"2009-12-01T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2009-12-01T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T01:42:00","slug":"looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2502","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Topp<\/span>, an NDP<\/span> negotiator during the coalition talks last year, has a 6-part series on the Globe’s political portal showing a behind-the-scenes look at how the coalition coalesced last year. The first two posts are up (here<\/a> and here<\/a>) and make for a fascinating read. Some interesting tid<\/span>-bits so far:<\/p>\n

-From Topp’s<\/span> accounts, the NDP<\/span> were the key driving force behind the coalition, having broached the idea with the Liberals several times before – the Dippers had a coalition proposal ready to give Dion on election night, had the results warranted it.<\/p>\n

-The Liberals appeared receptive to the idea, but internal<\/span> manoeuvring<\/span> over who got to be PM seems to have been an early stumbling block.<\/p>\n

–Topp<\/span> himself admits he seriously underestimated the power of the “deal with the separatists” argument.<\/p>\n

What I’ll really be interested in is the next post in Topp’s<\/span> series, since my view was always that that coalition was a good threat, but the plug should have been pulled once Harper backed down on the voter subsidy issue over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brian Topp, an NDP negotiator during the coalition talks last year, has a 6-part series on the Globe’s political portal showing a behind-the-scenes look at how the coalition coalesced last year. The first two posts are up (here and here) and make for a fascinating read. Some interesting tid-bits so far: -From Topp’s accounts, the […]<\/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\/2502"}],"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=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}