{"id":2748,"date":"2010-09-16T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2010-09-16T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T22:23:00","slug":"and-thus-begins-the-new-era-of-cooperation-with-john-baird-as-house-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2748","title":{"rendered":"And thus begins the new era of cooperation, with John Baird as House Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Baird, famous for telling Toronto to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/647684\">fuck off<\/a>&#8220;, now complains about Toronto elites. Suffice to say, none of Toronto&#8217;s mayoral candidates will be making a lot of calls to secure John Baird&#8217;s endorsement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2010\/09\/16\/hughes-ndp-gun-registry.html#ixzz0zj6Jlvsu\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Baird slams &#8216;Toronto elites&#8217; over gun registry<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>Government House Leader John Baird has denounced Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and NDP Leader Jack Layton as &#8220;Toronto elites&#8221; over their support for the federal long-gun registry.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the bright side, calling Michael Ignatieff a &#8220;Toronto elitist&#8221; is a slight improvement from calling him a &#8220;Harvard elitist&#8221;. It&#8217;s progress towards a more civil political dialogue, and given the state of affairs in Ottawa, we should be grateful for any progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Baird, famous for telling Toronto to &#8220;fuck off&#8220;, now complains about Toronto elites. Suffice to say, none of Toronto&#8217;s mayoral candidates will be making a lot of calls to secure John Baird&#8217;s endorsement. Baird slams &#8216;Toronto elites&#8217; over gun registry Government House Leader John Baird has denounced Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and NDP Leader [&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\/2748"}],"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=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}