{"id":369,"date":"2005-06-09T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=369"},"modified":"2005-06-09T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T19:23:00","slug":"a-propos-of-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"A Propos of Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">Harper&#8217;s recent suggestions that a Conservative government might consider invoking the Charter-overriding notwithstanding clause, Martin said, point to a &#8220;fundamental difference&#8221; between the two leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">&#8220;I would not use the notwithstanding clause,&#8221; Martin said. &#8220;And if what you&#8217;re prepared to do is use the notwithstanding clause, then what you&#8217;re saying essentially is minority rights can be subjected to the will of the majority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got to tell you that is not the kind of country I believe in, nor do I think it&#8217;s the kind of country that Canadians believe in.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>-June 14th, 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harper&#8217;s recent suggestions that a Conservative government might consider invoking the Charter-overriding notwithstanding clause, Martin said, point to a &#8220;fundamental difference&#8221; between the two leaders. &#8220;I would not use the notwithstanding clause,&#8221; Martin said. &#8220;And if what you&#8217;re prepared to do is use the notwithstanding clause, then what you&#8217;re saying essentially is minority rights can [&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\/369"}],"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=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}