{"id":2930,"date":"2011-04-01T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2012-05-30T09:37:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T13:37:39","slug":"the-liberal-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2930","title":{"rendered":"The Liberal Platform&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;will be launched online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberal.ca\/live\/\">Sunday morning<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Tune in on Sunday, April 3, at 11:00am EDT, to a special live town hall that will be streamed online at Liberal.ca. During the event, Michael Ignatieff will unveil the Liberal Platform and answer questions from Canadians.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a neat way to launch it, but the <em>how <\/em>doesn&#8217;t really make much difference to me.<\/p>\n<p>What impresses me is that the Liberals will have their entire platform launched one week into the campaign. Like Harper in 2005\/06, Ignatieff has released a major policy plank each day. He&#8217;s taken control of the agenda. He&#8217;s shown voters what he stands for early on, to dispel the hidden agenda attack being levied on him by the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone will absorb the message right away. Which is why it&#8217;s important to get it out early and then repeat. And repeat it again. <\/p>\n<p>Remember, Paul Martin was up by 10 points one week into the 2005 campaign. It wasn&#8217;t until Christmas that Harper got dividends on the campaign he was running. <\/p>\n<p>If Ignatieff can be as strong the rest of the way he&#8217;s been in week one, it will pay off &#8211; even if it&#8217;s not until Easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;will be launched online Sunday morning: Tune in on Sunday, April 3, at 11:00am EDT, to a special live town hall that will be streamed online at Liberal.ca. During the event, Michael Ignatieff will unveil the Liberal Platform and answer questions from Canadians. It&#8217;s a neat way to launch it, but the how doesn&#8217;t really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-federal-election","category-federal-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}