{"id":272,"date":"2005-03-07T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=272"},"modified":"2005-03-07T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-07T22:12:00","slug":"272","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Big Guy Speaks<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s not a lot I can add about the PM\u2019s Friday night speech. By now, most Canadians have heard a few of Paul\u2019s speeches, and this one wasn\u2019t remarkable in any ways (but, then again, are any of them?). I did find it better than his acceptance speech when he won the leadership for a few reasons reasons. One, he emphasized the \u201cteam\u201d aspect of the party. Right now, the PM isn\u2019t popular so he emphasized out Brison and Dryden and Dosanj and Emerson and, gulp, Jean Lapierre. Also, we didn\u2019t hear the wild promises about changing the very nature of government that would be impossible to keep. If the Liberals are going to make \u201cpromises made, promises kept\u201d their slogan, then Harper just needs to run commercials with excerpts of Paul\u2019s acceptance speech: \u201cfix health care for a generation\u201d, \u201cpolitics of achievement\u201d, \u201cbetter US relations\u201d, \u201cfixing provincial-federal relations\u201d, \u201cmaking history\u201d\u2026
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But most important was that he actually talked about the Liberal Party. In the past, it\u2019s been all about the Paul Martin Party and it wouldn\u2019t be a stretch to conclude that the big guy was embarrassed to be a Liberal. But he ended the speech with \u201cI\u2019m proud to be a Liberal\u201d and I think that was nice. Like Warren <\/a>said, we heard nary a word about Jean Chretien, but it\u2019s not like that was a huge surprise. But saying he\u2019s proud to be a Liberal and emphasizing the party\u2019s rich history is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Big Guy Speaks There\u2019s not a lot I can add about the PM\u2019s Friday night speech. By now, most Canadians have heard a few of Paul\u2019s speeches, and this one wasn\u2019t remarkable in any ways (but, then again, are any of them?). I did find it better than his acceptance speech when he won […]<\/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\/272"}],"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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}