{"id":2832,"date":"2011-01-05T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2011-01-05T00:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T05:23:00","slug":"and-thus-ends-peter-kents-political-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2832","title":{"rendered":"And Thus Ends Peter Kent&#8217;s Political Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ve likely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/peter-kent-named-environment-minister-in-tory-cabinet-shuffle\/article1857228\/\">heard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Stephen Harper has appointed Toronto MP Peter Kent as Environment Minister, giving the former TV broadcaster the task of selling the Conservatives&#8217; controversial approach to fighting climate change.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also given former Ontario Provincial Police commissioner Julian Fantino a junior cabinet post, making him minister of state for seniors.<\/p>\n<p>Diane Ablonczy, formerly the seniors minister, becomes Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas and Consular Affairs).<\/p>\n<p>And Ted Menzies, formerly parliamentary secretary to the Finance Minister, is appointed Minister of State (Finance). <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kent gets promoted and Fantino gets a cabinet spot (setting up <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RICKMERCER\">Rick Mercer<\/a> for a great &#8220;<em>Fantino &#8211; Tough on Seniors<\/em>&#8221; tweet). This is being interpreted as Harper courting GTA voters.<\/p>\n<p>Ablonczy and Menzies get in, which is good for Alberta and good for anyone holding a &#8220;Z&#8221; tile in Cabinet Minister Scrabble leagues. This has <em>not <\/em>been interpreted as Harper courting Alberta voters.<\/p>\n<p>On the whole, it&#8217;s hard to find much fault with these selections &#8211; those getting promoted are either competent or stars. My suspicion is that none of them will ever fall in the intersection of that Venn Diagram, but we shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ve likely heard: Stephen Harper has appointed Toronto MP Peter Kent as Environment Minister, giving the former TV broadcaster the task of selling the Conservatives&#8217; controversial approach to fighting climate change. He&#8217;s also given former Ontario Provincial Police commissioner Julian Fantino a junior cabinet post, making him minister of state for seniors. Diane Ablonczy, [&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\/2832"}],"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=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}