{"id":4148,"date":"2012-10-15T21:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T01:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2012-10-16T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T19:59:03","slug":"the-changing-face-of-provincial-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4148","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Face of Provincial Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4149\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/firstminconf2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/firstminconf2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"firstminconf2\" width=\"250\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4149\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Doer, Bernard Lord, and Dalton McGuinty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With Dalton McGuinty&#8217;s abrupt resignation, Stephen Harper has now outlasted every sitting Premier in power when he took office. Hell, Alberta has seen two regicides during this period:<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Hamm <\/strong><em>(succeeded by Rodney MacDonald in 2006, who was defeated by Darrel Dexter in 2009)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Bernard Lord<\/strong> <em>(defeated by Shawn Graham in 2006, in turn defeated by David Alward in 2010)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Ralph Klein<\/strong> <em>(succeeded by Ed Stelmach in 2006, succeeded by Alison Redford in 2011)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Pat Binns <\/strong><em>(defeated by Robert Ghiz in 2007)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Lorne Calvert<\/strong> <em>(defeated by Brad Wall in 2007)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Gary Doer <\/strong><em>(succeeded by Greg Selinger in 2009) <\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Danny Williams<\/strong> <em>(succeeded by Kathy Dunderdale in 2010)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Gordon Campbell<\/strong> <em>(succeeded by Christy Clark in 2011)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Jean Charest <\/strong><em>(defeated by Pauline Marois in 2012)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Dalton McGuinty<\/strong> <em>(announced resignation in 2012)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Premiers Harper sat down with after taking office as PM (or <em>would have<\/em> sat down with if he was into that sort of thing) is one of the most talented groups of Premiers the country has ever seen. You may not like Jean Charest, Danny Williams, or Ralph Klein, but you can&#8217;t question their political abilities. Gary Doer, Dalton McGuinty, and Gordon Campbell each lasted a decade in power. Bernard Lord is a former future Prime Minister. John Hamm is the reason Canadians tune into Mad Men every week.<\/p>\n<p>But despite all that talent, they&#8217;ve fallen one by one. And the boring lobbyist from Calgary, who no one ever expected anything from, outlasted them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Dalton McGuinty&#8217;s abrupt resignation, Stephen Harper has now outlasted every sitting Premier in power when he took office. Hell, Alberta has seen two regicides during this period: John Hamm (succeeded by Rodney MacDonald in 2006, who was defeated by Darrel Dexter in 2009) Bernard Lord (defeated by Shawn Graham in 2006, in turn defeated [&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":[55],"tags":[1001,1189,1267,1266,1097,1268,991],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148"}],"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=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4156,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions\/4156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}