{"id":335,"date":"2005-05-11T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=335"},"modified":"2005-05-11T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T19:33:00","slug":"sickening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Sickening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought last week&#8217;s descent into race politics and using veterans for political gains was as low as this Parliament could go, <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/s\/cpress\/20050511\/ca_pr_on_na\/parliament_cancer\">think again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Is he hoping that some of us may not be able to make it?&#8221; Darrel Stinson<br \/>asked in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p>Stinson and another Tory MP are battling cancer and had to be flown in<br \/>from Western Canada for a vote this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it&#8217;s come to this. Accusations that the government is delaying a non-confidence vote in the hopes that some MPs, sick with cancer, become too ill to attend a vote. Both Stinson and Chatters made the accusation in Question Period today themselves. The sad part? There&#8217;s likely a bit of truth to all this. The real question is how long it takes before Canadians do something drastic&#8230;like vote for Jack Layton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought last week&#8217;s descent into race politics and using veterans for political gains was as low as this Parliament could go, think again. &#8220;Is he hoping that some of us may not be able to make it?&#8221; Darrel Stinsonasked in the House of Commons. Stinson and another Tory MP are battling cancer and [&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\/335"}],"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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}