{"id":2740,"date":"2010-09-03T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2010-09-03T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:06:00","slug":"a-propos-of-nothing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2740","title":{"rendered":"A Propos of Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/ottawa-notebook\/tories-pour-salt-in-michael-ignatieffs-quebec-wound\/article1668346\/?service=mobile\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">August 11, 2010<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">: 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.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ignatieff\u2019s office has been a bit of revolving door so it\u2019s not great for him to see such a senior aide, especially one from Quebec, leave.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/pms-top-adviser-leaving-after-months-of-tory-turmoil\/article1694725\/\">Guy Giorno<\/a> had a hand in that memo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 11, 2010: 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 [&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\/2740"}],"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=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}