{"id":3099,"date":"2011-08-05T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2011-08-05T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T22:47:00","slug":"welcome-to-the-official-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3099","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the official opposition&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/story\/2011\/08\/05\/pol-ndp-staffer-turmel.html\">anonymous news reports<\/a> that come with it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><strong>NDP &#8216;unease&#8217; surrounds Turmel&#8217;s Bloc secrecy<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>There&#8217;s a serious unease in the NDP over interim leader Nycole Turmel&#8217;s memberships in two Quebec sovereigntist parties, a party staffer said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The staffer, speaking anonymously to RDI&#8217;s La p\u00e9riode des questions, said it shows a lack of integrity that Turmel held memberships in the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois for four years \u2014 until weeks before she announced her NDP candidacy \u2014 and in provincial party Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire until Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>RDI, CBC\/Radio-Canada&#8217;s French-language news channel, confirmed the staffer works for the NDP but agreed not to name him.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These leaks shouldn&#8217;t be treated any more seriously than &#8220;senior Liberal insider&#8221; stories, but expect to see more of them now that the NDP have hit the big time &#8211; especially if the party finds itself in a leadership race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and all the anonymous news reports that come with it: NDP &#8216;unease&#8217; surrounds Turmel&#8217;s Bloc secrecy There&#8217;s a serious unease in the NDP over interim leader Nycole Turmel&#8217;s memberships in two Quebec sovereigntist parties, a party staffer said Thursday. The staffer, speaking anonymously to RDI&#8217;s La p\u00e9riode des questions, said it shows a lack of [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","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=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}