{"id":2835,"date":"2011-01-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2011-01-12T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T15:00:00","slug":"i-mean-hes-into-torture-in-the-nicest-way-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2835","title":{"rendered":"I mean &quot;he&#8217;s into torture&quot; in the nicest way possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Lavigne, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/jack-layton-targets-tory-ridings-in-pre-election-tour\/article1866244\/\">today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">\u201cWe know that we attract Liberal and Bloc voters, <strong>not by going into their seats and saying what bad people they are<\/strong>, but rather by our sharp criticism and contrast with Stephen Harper.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brad, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2009\/08\/11\/an-awful-terrible-man-we-were-once-quite-eager-to-make-prime-minister\/\">August<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">NDP National Director <strong>Brad Lavigne set the stage for an election war for the left with the Liberals by suggesting Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff was into torture, into Iraq and out of the country <\/strong>\u2026 \u201cMr. Layton has written a book about investing in Canadians and their communities. Mr. Ignatieff has written books defending torture,\u201d said Lavigne. \u201cMr. Ignatieff has defended and supported the war in Iraq \u2026 If Mr. Ignatieff or Mr. Harper were prime minister in 2004, Canada would still be in Iraq today.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Lavigne, today: \u201cWe know that we attract Liberal and Bloc voters, not by going into their seats and saying what bad people they are, but rather by our sharp criticism and contrast with Stephen Harper.\u201d Brad, in August: NDP National Director Brad Lavigne set the stage for an election war for the left with [&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\/2835"}],"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=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}