{"id":2721,"date":"2010-08-10T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2010-08-10T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T20:23:00","slug":"great-moments-in-spin-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2721","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/ottawa-notebook\/tories-pour-salt-in-michael-ignatieffs-quebec-wound\/article1668346\/?cmpid=rss1\"><strong>Now<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> <em>Michael Ignatieff\u2019s principal secretary and top Quebec aide quit because the Liberal Leader doesn\u2019t know the province \u201cfrom Minnesota,\u201d Stephen Harper\u2019s strategists say.<\/p>\n<p>The gloating memo, sent to Tory MPs and supporters Monday, was inspired by the departure of Jean-Marc Fournier. A former member of Quebec\u2019s National Assembly, he left Jean Charest\u2019s government in November, 2008, and went to work for Mr. Ignatieff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then&#8230;<br \/><\/strong><br \/>June 20, 2010: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgarysun.com\/news\/canada\/2010\/06\/20\/14454866.html\">Harper&#8217;s top aides quit jobs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>August 5, 2009: <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/posted\/archive\/2009\/08\/05\/harper-loses-another-key-adviser-as-stewart-olsen-quits.aspx\">Harper loses another key adviser<\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 28, 2009: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/CTVNews\/QPeriod\/20090728\/ottawa_tues_090728\/\">Harper&#8217;s communications director to step down<\/a><\/p>\n<p>February 5, 2009: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/CTVNews\/QPeriod\/20090205\/muttart_resignation_090205\/\">Departure of Tory strategist leaves &#8216;massive hole&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>June 27, 2008: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/Canada\/article\/450158\">Top aide to Harper steps down<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 21, 2008: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/article686246.ece\">Brodie to step down as Harper&#8217;s chief of staff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now: Michael Ignatieff\u2019s principal secretary and top Quebec aide quit because the Liberal Leader doesn\u2019t know the province \u201cfrom Minnesota,\u201d Stephen Harper\u2019s strategists say. The gloating memo, sent to Tory MPs and supporters Monday, was inspired by the departure of Jean-Marc Fournier. A former member of Quebec\u2019s National Assembly, he left Jean Charest\u2019s government in [&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\/2721"}],"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=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}