{"id":2511,"date":"2009-12-14T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2009-12-14T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T01:25:00","slug":"vote-for-the-moment-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2511","title":{"rendered":"Vote for the Moment of the Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who voted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/moment-of-decade.html\">first round<\/a> of the \u201cCanadian Political Moment of the Decade\u201d poll. Before I reveal the final 10, here are the 11th to 20th place finishers:<\/p>\n<p>20 &#8211; 2003: Danny Williams comes to power in Newfoundland<br \/>19 \u2013 2001: Stockwell Day forced out as Canadian Alliance leader<br \/>18 \u2013 2008: Jean Charest wins a majority, decimating the ADQ<br \/>17 \u2013 2006: Ralph Klein is forced out early at an Alberta PC leadership review<br \/>16 \u2013 2000: Jean Chr\u00e9tien wins his third straight majority<br \/>15 \u2013 2006: Ed Stelmach stuns the field, winning the Alberta PC leadership race<br \/>14 \u2013 2005: The Income Trust investigation is announced during the election<br \/>13 \u2013 2003: David Orchard hands Peter McKay the PC leadership win, thanks to a no merger deal<br \/>12 \u2013 2009: STV goes down to defeat in British Columbia<br \/>11 \u2013 2003: Jean Charest knocks the PQ out of power in Quebec<\/p>\n<p>All memorable events, but the top 10 blew them out of the water \u2013 it wasn\u2019t even close.<\/p>\n<p>And the top 10 offer a nice mix. Three policy decisions. One election, one leadership race, one merger. Some moments from the Chr\u00e9tien years, some from the Martin years, and some from the Harper years.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve set up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demochoice.org\/dcballot.php?poll=calgrit1\">preferential ballot<\/a> for the top 10, so just click through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demochoice.org\/dcballot.php?poll=calgrit1\">the link<\/a> to see who made the cut. Voting will be open until midnight on Sunday night \u2013 results will stay secret until I count down the top 10 the first two weeks of January. You can vote once a day, so the old &#8220;vote early, vote often&#8221; adage certainly applies.<\/p>\n<p>So argue for which moment you feel should win in the comments section, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demochoice.org\/dcballot.php?poll=calgrit1\">go cast your vote<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em>PS &#8211; And, after that, if you&#8217;re still in the mood for more online preferential balloting, be sure to cast a ballot in the final round of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/vote-2009\/\"><em>the Canadian Blog Awards<\/em><\/a><em> where I&#8217;m up for <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.demochoice.org\/dcballot.php?poll=cba09r2pol\"><em>Best Political Blog<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who voted in the first round of the \u201cCanadian Political Moment of the Decade\u201d poll. Before I reveal the final 10, here are the 11th to 20th place finishers: 20 &#8211; 2003: Danny Williams comes to power in Newfoundland19 \u2013 2001: Stockwell Day forced out as Canadian Alliance leader18 \u2013 2008: Jean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[684],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-moment-of-the-decade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}