{"id":3058,"date":"2011-06-01T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2011-06-01T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T22:45:00","slug":"the-ever-shrinking-liberal-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3058","title":{"rendered":"The ever shrinking Liberal shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s only so much you can read into the critic portfolios assigned to the third party in the house &#8211; especially when numbers dictate that everyone gets <em>something<\/em>. But the Liberal shadow cabinet deserves a bit of attention, if only because it marks Bob Rae&#8217;s first significant <em>public<\/em> decision as interim leader.<\/p>\n<p>Among the notables:<\/p>\n<p><strong>-Ralph Goodale<\/strong> is an obvious and deserving choice as Deputy Leader, given his experience and the need to grow the party west of Mississauga.<\/p>\n<p>-In Rae&#8217;s most notable and encouraging move, <strong>Stephane Dion<\/strong> winds up with intergovernmental affairs and democratic reform. True, these are not high profile posts in the Harper government (quick quiz: name the intergovernmental affairs minister), but between the NDP&#8217;s murky position on the Clarity Act and the number of Premiers jumping into the Senate reform frenzy, this is an important role, and one Dion is perfectly suited for.<\/p>\n<p>-On the leadership front, <strong>Dominic LeBlanc<\/strong> takes over from Rae as Foreign Affairs critic, while <strong>Justin Trudeau<\/strong> settles for sport, youth, and post-secondary education. Score one for Dom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<strong>Scott Brison<\/strong> is back in Finance, a critic role he is familiar with and performs well at.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<strong>Hedy Fry<\/strong> and <strong>Geoff Regan<\/strong> get big promotions to Health Care and Industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s only so much you can read into the critic portfolios assigned to the third party in the house &#8211; especially when numbers dictate that everyone gets something. But the Liberal shadow cabinet deserves a bit of attention, if only because it marks Bob Rae&#8217;s first significant public decision as interim leader. Among the notables: [&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\/3058"}],"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=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}