{"id":2763,"date":"2010-09-30T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2010-09-30T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T20:20:00","slug":"howd-this-guy-ever-get-elected-as-an-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2763","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;d this guy ever get elected as an MP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cabinet Minister Michael Fortier proposes that Quebec hold a referendum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/opinions\/201009\/29\/01-4327829-un-referendum-tous-les-15-ans.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&amp;utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_B9_place-publique_1242600_accueil_POS2\">every 15 years<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Au risque de heurter des f\u00e9d\u00e9ralistes, nous devrions l\u00e9gif\u00e9rer la tenue d&#8217;un r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum obligatoire \u00e0 tous les 15 ans. Le nombre important de Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois souhaitant la souverainet\u00e9 n&#8217;est pas sur le point de s&#8217;estomper &#8211; voil\u00e0 30 ans que je le souhaite et que les f\u00e9d\u00e9ralistes l&#8217;annoncent et rien n&#8217;y fait. Durant une p\u00e9riode de 35 jours avant la tenue d&#8217;un r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum, le gouvernement op\u00e9rerait exactement comme il le fait pendant une \u00e9lection g\u00e9n\u00e9rale. Des membres du gouvernement militeraient dans des camps distincts durant la campagne r\u00e9f\u00e9rendaire, une pratique r\u00e9pandue ailleurs avec la multiplication de gouvernements de coalition dont les parties constituantes se disputent des si\u00e8ges lors d&#8217;\u00e9lections g\u00e9n\u00e9rales.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The short of Fortier&#8217;s argument is that this would allow Quebec provincial politics to move beyond the federalist\/separatist divide.<\/p>\n<p>It makes for an intriguing idea, but it&#8217;s far too silly in theory and too dangerous in practice for it to actually happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cabinet Minister Michael Fortier proposes that Quebec hold a referendum every 15 years: Au risque de heurter des f\u00e9d\u00e9ralistes, nous devrions l\u00e9gif\u00e9rer la tenue d&#8217;un r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum obligatoire \u00e0 tous les 15 ans. Le nombre important de Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois souhaitant la souverainet\u00e9 n&#8217;est pas sur le point de s&#8217;estomper &#8211; voil\u00e0 30 ans que je le [&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\/2763"}],"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=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}