{"id":2587,"date":"2010-03-04T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2010-03-04T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:19:00","slug":"we-saw-this-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2587","title":{"rendered":"We Saw This Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Jim Flaherty&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/budget\/news\/full-text-the-budget-speech\/article1489874\/\">budget preamble<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">A year before the crisis, <strong>we saw the risk of a slowdown<\/strong>. It originated outside our borders, but <strong>we knew it would eventually affect us<\/strong>.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess you just had to read between the lines:<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 15, 2008:<\/strong> <em>&#8220;My own belief is if we were going to have some kind of big crash or recession, we probably would have had it by now.&#8221; <\/em>&#8211; Stephen Harper<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 26, 2008:<\/strong> <em>&#8220;All the fundamentals of the Canadian economy are good. It&#8217;s not the time to do anything new, wild or stupid.&#8221; <\/em>&#8211; Stephen Harper<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 10, 2008:<\/strong> <em>&#8220;This country will not go into recession next year and will lead the G7 countries.&#8221; <\/em>&#8211; Stephen Harper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jim Flaherty&#8217;s budget preamble: A year before the crisis, we saw the risk of a slowdown. It originated outside our borders, but we knew it would eventually affect us. I guess you just had to read between the lines: September 15, 2008: &#8220;My own belief is if we were going to have some kind [&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\/2587"}],"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=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}