{"id":3171,"date":"2011-10-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2011-10-24T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T13:00:00","slug":"revirement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3171","title":{"rendered":"Revirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the latest round of elections suggest Canadians are craving stability, the situation is starkly different in Quebec. Consider the latest poll from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legermarketing.com\/admin\/upload\/publi_pdf\/Provincial_political_Survey_LM-Le_Devoir-The_Gazette_Oct182011.pdf\">Leger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Legault 36%<br \/>Lib 22%<br \/>PQ 18%<br \/>ADQ 9%<br \/>QS 7%<br \/>Green 5%<br \/>Other 3%<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Legault&#8221; refers to &#8220;a new party led by Francois Legault&#8221;, the former PQ Cabinet Minister who heads the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coalitionavenir.org\/\"><em>Coalition pour l&#8217;avenir du Quebec<\/em><\/a>, a group hoping to move beyond the sovereignty debate with a bold &#8220;pro-future&#8221; agenda. The coalition won&#8217;t declare their electoral intentions until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/life\/Legault+reveal+plans\/5583425\/story.html\">November 14th<\/a>, yet they sit in first place, with nearly as much support as the Liberals and PQ <em>combined<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems far flung to image a party being able to form, organize itself, and take power in a year or two but after seeing the orange wave sweep across Quebec in a matter of <em>weeks<\/em> this spring, it would be rash to count out Legault. Quebecers are clearly not satisfied with their options, and haven&#8217;t hesitated to mark &#8220;none of the above&#8221; in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the latest round of elections suggest Canadians are craving stability, the situation is starkly different in Quebec. Consider the latest poll from Leger: Legault 36%Lib 22%PQ 18%ADQ 9%QS 7%Green 5%Other 3% &#8220;Legault&#8221; refers to &#8220;a new party led by Francois Legault&#8221;, the former PQ Cabinet Minister who heads the Coalition pour l&#8217;avenir du Quebec, [&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\/3171"}],"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=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}