{"id":2850,"date":"2011-01-27T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2011-01-27T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T18:30:00","slug":"shouldnt-we-really-be-blaming-the-nova-scotia-liberal-government-who-designed-his-grade-5-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2850","title":{"rendered":"Shouldn&#8217;t we really be blaming the Nova Scotia Liberal government who designed his grade 5 curriculum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the government who brought you a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/article320476.ece\">Minister of Science who doesn&#8217;t believe in science<\/a>, comes a (<em>former<\/em>) <a href=\"http:\/\/calgary.ctv.ca\/servlet\/an\/local\/CTVNews\/20110126\/mackay-california-110126\/20110126\/?hub=CalgaryHome\">Foreign Affairs Minister who doesn&#8217;t believe in geography<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Defence Minister Peter MacKay might want to give his old Grade 5 geography teacher a call for a brush-up.<\/p>\n<p>MacKay made a bit of a gaffe Tuesday night, when he stated British Columbia shares a border with California when he posed a question to the state&#8217;s former governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Terminator&#8221; actor politely quipped that Oregon and Washington happen to exist between B.C. and the Golden State.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though this probably shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise, given MacKay has trouble telling Toronto from Halifax:<br \/><center><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/98oXjJfUSF0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"240\" type=\"text\/html\"><\/iframe><br \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the government who brought you a Minister of Science who doesn&#8217;t believe in science, comes a (former) Foreign Affairs Minister who doesn&#8217;t believe in geography: Defence Minister Peter MacKay might want to give his old Grade 5 geography teacher a call for a brush-up. MacKay made a bit of a gaffe Tuesday night, when [&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\/2850"}],"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=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}