{"id":405,"date":"2005-07-12T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=405"},"modified":"2005-07-12T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T18:50:00","slug":"third-way-or-the-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Third Way Or The Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll have more thoughts on Ralph Klein’s “third way”<\/a> once I take a look at all the details.<\/p>\n

For now, I thought, I’d bring back this little blast from the past<\/a>: <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Well, unlike Stephen Harper, I do care…. And unlike Stephen Harper, I will look Ralph Klein in the eye and I will say ‘no,’ unlike Stephen Harper, I will defend medicare.”<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> I will look Ralph Klein in the eye…and blink<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In Ottawa, federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said his initial reaction was positive.
“No user fees and no queue jumping are the linchpins of our medicare system,” Dosanjh said in a prepared statement. “These fundamental characteristics of our system will continue to be protected for all Canadians. “
“I am pleased to see Alberta has reaffirmed its commitment to the Canada Health Act, and that the proposed package, in my view, indicates a generally positive step in ensuring better health care for Albertans.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now…here’s the real question: How long before Ujal is “Pettigrewed” and forced to retract his statement?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll have more thoughts on Ralph Klein’s “third way” once I take a look at all the details. For now, I thought, I’d bring back this little blast from the past: “Well, unlike Stephen Harper, I do care…. And unlike Stephen Harper, I will look Ralph Klein in the eye and I will say ‘no,’ […]<\/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\/405"}],"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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}