{"id":3756,"date":"2012-06-15T00:02:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T04:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2012-06-15T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T04:03:08","slug":"why-cant-we-all-just-get-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3756","title":{"rendered":"Why Can&#8217;t We All Just Get Along?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/06\/14\/ontario-liberals-threaten-election-after-ndp-break-their-word-on-passing-budget\/\">careens <\/a>towards an election nobody wants&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Ontario Liberals threaten election after NDP \u2018breaks its word\u2019 on budget<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty threatened to take Ontario to a general election Thursday if the opposition parties couldn\u2019t agree on a deal to pass the budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about Ontario\u2019s economic livelihood and our ability to continue steering the province in the right direction in these challenging times,\u201d McGuinty said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely imperative that we pass this budget. And if we cannot pass this budget, we will take it to the people in a general election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NDP had appeared ready to support the minority Liberal budget in exchange for a new tax on incomes over $500,000, and to get more hearings into the fiscal plan before next week\u2019s vote.<\/p>\n<p>But on Thursday, McGuinty accused NDP leader Andrea Horwath of reneging on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier today, the NDP turned their backs \u2014 yet again \u2014 on an agreement to pass our budget,\u201d McGuinty said. \u201cThey joined forces with the PCs to gut the government\u2019s budget bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe consequences of the NDP\u2019s latest backtrack would hurt our economy when what it needs most is stability and certainty. Andrea Horwath and her party have, for the second time, broken their word about passing this budget.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario careens towards an election nobody wants&#8230; Ontario Liberals threaten election after NDP \u2018breaks its word\u2019 on budget Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty threatened to take Ontario to a general election Thursday if the opposition parties couldn\u2019t agree on a deal to pass the budget. \u201cThis is about Ontario\u2019s economic livelihood and our ability to continue [&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":[46,55],"tags":[1192,1067,1001,1193,1028],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756"}],"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=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3759,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/3759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}