{"id":2503,"date":"2009-12-04T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2009-12-04T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T14:14:00","slug":"moment-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2503","title":{"rendered":"Moment of the Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voting is now open in the first round of \u201cCanada\u2019s top political moment of the decade<\/strong>\u201d. You can define that however you see fit, but the general goal is to find a political moment in Canada that was both captivating at the time, while leaving a long term impact on our country and its politics. So looking back at the aughts, what really stood out?<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions<\/a>. From those, I\u2019ve cobbled together a list of 30 events and will leave voting open for a week. You can vote for up to 10 of these each day<\/em>, with the top 10 vote getters advancing to the final round of voting, where we’ll crown a champion.<\/p>\n

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Top Political Moment of the 00s?<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000: The House of Commons passes the Clarity Act
2000: (Doris) Day implodes, as the Liberals win the 2000 election
2001: Gordon Campbell wins a crushing 77 of 79 seats in the BC provincial election
2001: Stockwell Day is forced out as Canadian Alliance leader
2002: Paul Martin gets quit-fired from Cabinet
2002: Chretien announces his 18-month goodbye tour
2003: Chretien says Canada won’t send troops to Iraq
2003: Jean Charest knocks the PQ out of power in Quebec
2003: David Orchard signs no-merger a deal with Peter MacKay to deliver him the PC leadership
2003: The evil reptilian kitten eater Dalton McGuinty takes power in Ontario
2003: Danny Williams elected Newfoundland Premier
2003: PC-Canadian Alliance merger
2004: The AG’s Adscam report stuns the Liberals, setting the Mad as Hell tour in motion
2004: The Valeri-Copps nomination slugfest
2005: Confidence mayhem: Belinda crosses the floor and Cadman saves the government
2005: Canada legalizes same sex marriage
2005: Stephen Harper’s Quebec City speech on open federalism
2005: The RCMP announces it will investigate a possible income trust announcement leak
2006: The Liberal campaign free falls in the new year, leading to a Stephen Harper victory
2006: Ralph Klein forced out early as Alberta PC leader
2006: Bernard Lord’s fall from grace is complete, as he loses to Shawn Graham in New Brunswick
2006: Stephane Dion stuns the field at the LPC leadership convention in Montreal
2006: Ed Stelmach stuns Jim Dinning and Ted Morton in the PC leadership race later that day
2007: Brad Wall and the Sask Party win, ending the NDP dynasty in Saskatchewan
2008: Bernier-Couillard Affair
2008: Harper expands his minority, but stumbles in Quebec, falling short of a majority
2008: The coalition threat captivates the nation
2008: Jean Charest bounces back with a majority, decimating the ADQ in the process
2009: Jim Flaherty’s deficit budget passes thanks to Liberal support
2009: STV goes down in defeat in BC, the fourth failed attempt to bring in PR this decade
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Voting is now open in the first round of \u201cCanada\u2019s top political moment of the decade\u201d. You can define that however you see fit, but the general goal is to find a political moment in Canada that was both captivating at the time, while leaving a long term impact on our country and its politics. […]<\/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\/2503"}],"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=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}