{"id":2821,"date":"2010-12-18T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2010-12-18T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T17:49:00","slug":"the-harper-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2821","title":{"rendered":"The Harper Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/day6\/blog\/2010\/12\/17\/political-blogger-battle-royale-which-party-won\/\">Day 6<\/a> this week for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/day6\/blog\/2010\/12\/17\/political-blogger-battle-royale-which-party-won\/\">Blogger Battle Royale<\/a> Session in Review Panel.<\/p>\n<p>One of the points I brought up was the Harper record&#8230;or lack thereof. As media pundits will be sure to remind us, we&#8217;re coming up on Harper&#8217;s 5th anniversary as Prime Minister on January 23rd (or, technically, February 6th). And really, what does Harper have to show for it? Some tax cuts, some stimulus spending, a few Liberal decisions abandoned &#8211; it&#8217;s hardly the kind of stuff that will get an airport named after you.<\/p>\n<p>I know Harper has been handcuffed by minority governments, but still &#8211; Pearson was PM for 5 years, all of them minority rule, and all he got us was a flag, Health Care, the CPP, and student loans. Yes, a Conservative minority government is harder to navigate and Harper has made some incrementalist moves, but moving the football 2 yards every play won&#8217;t get you very far.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;m complaining. I&#8217;d probably be dead set against a lot of the legacy moves a Conservative PM <em>could <\/em>implement. And being less offensive than toast is probably the number one reason Harper has made it 5 years and looks like a good bet to stick around for a few more. But if I were a staunch Conservative who&#8217;d bought in to the merger on the promise of a Conservative government <em>changing this country<\/em>&#8230;I&#8217;d be asking for my money back right about now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on Day 6 this week for a Blogger Battle Royale Session in Review Panel. One of the points I brought up was the Harper record&#8230;or lack thereof. As media pundits will be sure to remind us, we&#8217;re coming up on Harper&#8217;s 5th anniversary as Prime Minister on January 23rd (or, technically, February 6th). [&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\/2821"}],"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=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}