{"id":260,"date":"2005-02-20T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=260"},"modified":"2005-02-20T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-21T03:35:00","slug":"260","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Star Wars: A New Hope<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Question Period today, it looks like the Liberals will back out of missile defense. This will mark a sharp contrast (notice the avoidance of the term flip-flop) to Martin&#8217;s position during the leadership race when  Sheila Copps shouted about missile defense and Paul said we &#8220;had to be at the table&#8221;.  This was significant since Paul&#8217;s time during the leadership &#8220;race&#8221; consisted of grandiose statements such as &#8220;I support puppies, sunshine, and lollipops&#8230;except without the skin cancer, rabies, and tooth decay.&#8221; In fact, to the best of my knowledge, the only two concrete promises made by Martin during the leadership race was that he&#8217;d say &#8220;yes&#8221; to Star Wars, and &#8220;no&#8221; to Bob Nault&#8217;s very good Native governance bill.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I&#8217;m very glad we&#8217;ll be backing out of missile defense &#8211; it&#8217;s a stupid idea that will never work. But for a guy who promised better relations with the provinces and better relations with the States, Paulie&#8217;s not exactly coming through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Wars: A New Hope According to Question Period today, it looks like the Liberals will back out of missile defense. This will mark a sharp contrast (notice the avoidance of the term flip-flop) to Martin&#8217;s position during the leadership race when Sheila Copps shouted about missile defense and Paul said we &#8220;had to be [&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\/260"}],"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=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}