{"id":301,"date":"2005-04-09T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-09T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=301"},"modified":"2005-04-09T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-09T23:11:00","slug":"301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rats are Always the First to Jump Ship<\/strong><\/p>\n

With today’s Ipsos poll <\/a>showing the Liberals at a stunning 13% in Alberta, behind even the NDP, David Kilgour is considering defecting<\/a>…again. Kilgour, you’ll recall moved to the Liberals because he opposed the GST – and didn’t have any problem with the Liberals failing to abolish it. He also isn’t a fan of gay marriage<\/a>, or really, any Liberal policy for that matter. There’s a rumour in Liberal circles that Kilgour’s brother-in-law, John Turner, called Chretien and warned the big guy not to give David Kilgour any sort of meaningful cabinet post shortly after Chretien won in ’93.<\/p>\n

One of my consolations when I saw that 13% was that it would finally mean the end of David Kilgour’s political career. Unfortunately, not. Assuming he follows through with his threat, Kilgour will join Jean Lapierre as the only two “double-turncoats” in parliament. Well, that is assuming Lapierre doesn’t bolt back to the BQ…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rats are Always the First to Jump Ship With today’s Ipsos poll showing the Liberals at a stunning 13% in Alberta, behind even the NDP, David Kilgour is considering defecting…again. Kilgour, you’ll recall moved to the Liberals because he opposed the GST – and didn’t have any problem with the Liberals failing to abolish […]<\/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\/301"}],"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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}