{"id":2591,"date":"2010-03-10T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2010-03-10T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:10:00","slug":"heaven-forbid-we-find-out-michael-ignatieff-doesnt-like-beavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2591","title":{"rendered":"Heaven forbid we find out Michael Ignatieff doesn&#8217;t like beavers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to accusations that maybe Jim Flaherty shouldn&#8217;t have spent $3,000 for a double-double hours after talking about belt tightening, <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/Politics\/2010\/03\/09\/13168636-qmi.html\">John Baird shot back<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">[Baird] also accused Mulcair of having something &#8220;against Tim Hortons&#8221; which he called &#8220;un-Canadian.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is in addition to other positions deemed &#8220;un-Canadian&#8221; by this government, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=22402110832\">wanting to know exactly what&#8217;s going on in Afghanistan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2009\/05\/27\/add-another-name-to-the-uncanadian-list\/\">proposing campaign finance reform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You know, this made me think back to a simpler time. A time before &#8220;just visiting&#8221; adds. Here&#8217;s Stephen Harper on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A50673-2004May23.html\">opening day of the 2004 election campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Harper answered the criticism minutes later, accusing the Liberal Party, which has governed the country since 1993, of creating a campaign of fear. &#8220;You know, in this country,&#8221; Harper said, &#8220;you can be Canadian without being a Liberal.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True.<\/p>\n<p>But heaven forbid you have something against thousand dollar donut photo opps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to accusations that maybe Jim Flaherty shouldn&#8217;t have spent $3,000 for a double-double hours after talking about belt tightening, John Baird shot back: [Baird] also accused Mulcair of having something &#8220;against Tim Hortons&#8221; which he called &#8220;un-Canadian.&#8221; This is in addition to other positions deemed &#8220;un-Canadian&#8221; by this government, such as wanting to know [&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\/2591"}],"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=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}