{"id":2713,"date":"2010-07-31T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2010-07-31T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T19:45:00","slug":"take-us-seriously-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Take us seriously. Or else&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth May, facing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/news\/canada\/2010\/07\/19\/14757761.html\">internal dissent and leadership challenges from within<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/hockey\/story\/2010\/07\/31\/green-party-laraque.html\">picked up an enforcer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The federal Green Party is hoping a former NHL tough guy will help beef up the party&#8217;s presence in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>Green Leader Elizabeth May on Saturday named Georges Laraque as a deputy leader of the Green Party of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The 260-pound former Montreal Canadiens enforcer joined the Greens last February but his role has been undefined until now.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement is part of an attempt to gain traction in the province.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thinking that Georges Laraque will help the Greens in Quebec only shows how out of touch with Quebecers (or, at the very least, Habs fans) May is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth May, facing internal dissent and leadership challenges from within, has picked up an enforcer: The federal Green Party is hoping a former NHL tough guy will help beef up the party&#8217;s presence in Quebec. Green Leader Elizabeth May on Saturday named Georges Laraque as a deputy leader of the Green Party of Canada. The [&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\/2713"}],"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=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}