{"id":373,"date":"2005-06-11T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-11T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=373"},"modified":"2005-06-11T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-11T17:56:00","slug":"better-safe-than-charest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Better Safe Than Charest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although it is somewhat surprising, no one should really be shocked by the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20050610.wducep0610\/BNStory\/National\/\">Gilles Duceppe is staying in Ottawa<\/a>. As <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/hairnets-aside.html\">I said earlier in week<\/a>, Duceppe has one of the easiest jobs in the world right now, right up there with &#8220;bed tester&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montesolberg.com\/blog.htm\">Monte Solberg <\/a>campaign manager&#8221;. All he needs to do is scream about Gomery and he&#8217;s guaranteed 60 seats in the next election. The man never has to take a difficult policy stand since he&#8217;s a federal politician who has no need or desire to make Canada work.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll repeat this since it bears repeating: Gilles Duceppe is only a fraction of the politician everyone believes him to be. He was a spent force in politics before the Sponsorship Scandal broke. Heck, the only French I know is &#8220;j&#8217;aime le fromage&#8221; and I could have swept Quebec as BQ leader last election. The PQ is a bloodthirsty party, something Lucien Bouchard found out after making a similar leap. And Quebec politics are very difficult, something Jean Charest has found out time and time again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it is somewhat surprising, no one should really be shocked by the news that Gilles Duceppe is staying in Ottawa. As I said earlier in week, Duceppe has one of the easiest jobs in the world right now, right up there with &#8220;bed tester&#8221; and &#8220;Monte Solberg campaign manager&#8221;. All he needs to do [&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\/373"}],"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=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}