{"id":2557,"date":"2010-01-28T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2010-01-28T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T01:29:00","slug":"diverging-views-on-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2557","title":{"rendered":"Diverging Views on Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2010\/01\/27\/you-can-vote-us-out-of-office\/\">Two<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2010\/01\/28\/now-is-not-the-time-for-democracy\/\">quotes<\/a>, from two Tories, both posted on Macleans:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">\u201cWe have a government that is focused on the economy, focused on safer streets and focused on research and development,\u201d Clement said. \u201c<strong>If you don\u2019t agree with that, which is your right, then you can vote us out of office. That\u2019s democracy<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">For [Conservative MP Rob Cannan], prorogation is an opportunity for the Conservative government to concentrate on the economy by implementing the next phase of its economic stimulus program and prepare a new budget.<br \/><\/span><br \/><strong>If parliament was in session then the opposition parties could vote non-confidence and force an election before those tasks are complete. \u201cThat\u2019s what we don\u2019t want,\u201d said Cannan.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two quotes, from two Tories, both posted on Macleans: \u201cWe have a government that is focused on the economy, focused on safer streets and focused on research and development,\u201d Clement said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t agree with that, which is your right, then you can vote us out of office. That\u2019s democracy.\u201d For [Conservative MP Rob [&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\/2557"}],"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=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}