{"id":2836,"date":"2011-01-12T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2011-01-12T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:01:00","slug":"5-years-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"5 Years In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/TS3s0T4H_7I\/AAAAAAAACKs\/NSFlUPkhFls\/s1600\/5%2Byears%2Bharper.JPG\"><img style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 171px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561361498305462194\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/TS3s0T4H_7I\/AAAAAAAACKs\/NSFlUPkhFls\/s320\/5%2Byears%2Bharper.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>We&#8217;re inevitably going to see a slew of &#8220;5 year anniversary&#8221; articles later this month&#8230;after all, there&#8217;s only so many election speculation columns one can write before they become insufferable, not just to the reader but to the columnist writing them.<\/p>\n<p>To get a jump on this, the Liberals have released their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberal.ca\/files\/2011\/01\/Five-Years-of-Harper-EN.pdf\">recap of the Harper years<\/a>, focusing on the rising cost of living, and how it&#8217;s impacting Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>On the whole, I like the document&#8217;s direction &#8211; even though the question up front is about Canada, the pamphlet focuses on the concerns of <em>individual<\/em> Canadians, rather than the health of a country as a whole. Which makes sense, because Canada as a whole is looking pretty good these days (minus our third period meltdown against the Russians of course) &#8211; but a lot of individual Canadians are still struggling.<\/p>\n<p>And politics is all about individuals. The Conservatives figured that out a long time ago, which is why we see home reno and child sports tax credits, rather than programs to improve productivity and cut greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s encouraging to see the Liberals keying in on that same idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re inevitably going to see a slew of &#8220;5 year anniversary&#8221; articles later this month&#8230;after all, there&#8217;s only so many election speculation columns one can write before they become insufferable, not just to the reader but to the columnist writing them. To get a jump on this, the Liberals have released their recap of the [&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\/2836"}],"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=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}