{"id":2876,"date":"2011-02-28T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2011-02-28T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T03:33:00","slug":"and-so-it-begins-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2876","title":{"rendered":"And so it begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a spring election highly possible (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/ottawa-notebook\/tories-now-put-odds-of-spring-election-at-70-30-in-favour\/article1923687\/\">70% possible<\/a> according to well placed and shockingly <em>anonymous <\/em>sources), the air war has started, with new NDP and Conservative ads released today.<\/p>\n<p>The NDP ads start with &#8220;average Canadians&#8221; raising an issue &#8211; it&#8217;s a cute trick, since it shows Jack responding directly to Canadians. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U-kqPvo0WqM\">BC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uNPRizuA6s0\">Ontario<\/a>-specific HST ads, along with this one:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"197\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4umO5GBAiVM?fs=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re keeping track, Jack is now in his &#8220;making parliament work&#8221; mood. For those of you without your Parliament Hill decoder rings at home, &#8220;making parliament work&#8221;, &#8220;putting partisan games aside&#8221;, and &#8220;getting results&#8221; (<em>for people<\/em>?) can all be translated loosely as &#8220;rolling over&#8221;. Of course, even if Jack wants a way out, he still needs Harper to offer him one or we&#8217;ll be in an election campaign by month&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>And judging from the CPC ad buy (which has included Superbowl and Oscar commercials), they&#8217;re very much ready for that. The latest from our Conservative friends includes a surprisingly policy-related <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gO4uqRAR39E\">attack ad<\/a> going after Ignatieff on corporate taxes. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a positive spot where you can see Steve playing the piano, see Steve in a hard hat, and see Steve visiting world leaders. Oh, and there&#8217;s a $16 billion dollar F-35 fly over:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"320\" height=\"195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/klerPS3-Gi8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a spring election highly possible (70% possible according to well placed and shockingly anonymous sources), the air war has started, with new NDP and Conservative ads released today. The NDP ads start with &#8220;average Canadians&#8221; raising an issue &#8211; it&#8217;s a cute trick, since it shows Jack responding directly to Canadians. There are BC [&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":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876"}],"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=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}