{"id":427,"date":"2005-08-15T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=427"},"modified":"2005-08-15T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T04:59:00","slug":"this-week-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I hope everyone had fun in the NEP free for all <\/a>discussion last week (I’m still waiting for an explanation on how Trudeau caused the world price of Oil to plummet – come on guys!). Here\u2019s a catch up on some of the news stories of the past seven days:<\/p>\n

Softwood<\/strong> <\/a>
I\u2019d say it\u2019s time to play hardball on softwood. I\u2019m a big free trade proponent and actually think Canada needs more free trade, not just with the US but with other countries too (preferably ones less hypocritical in their trade practices). But you can\u2019t win every appeal out there and just sit back and take it. I say, hit \u2018em where it hurts, and that means energy resources.<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong><\/a>
While it always pains me to see Paul Martin crack and give the Premiers whatever they want (\u201cSure Dalton, Ontario has gotten a raw deal. Here\u2019s 5 billion and I\u2019ll personally cut your hair for you every month.\u201d), this is one issue I kind of hope he caves on. I know Paul has never said he\u2019s going to \u201cfix post-secondary education for a generation\u201d, but 2 billion here would go A LOT farther than 2 billion in health care.<\/p>\n

Immigration<\/strong><\/a>
A new study shows Canadians are far from colour blind when it comes to immigration which is unfortunate. And, on the topic of immigration, I really don\u2019t see why Canada doesn\u2019t up our immigration rate substantially. Increasing to the often talked about 1% would bring nothing but positives.<\/p>\n

GG<\/strong>
<\/a>This was completely unexpected and it\u2019s one of those things where I really don\u2019t want to rush to judgment. I mean, let\u2019s face it, Jean-Daniel Lafond did not found any ad hoc temporary rainbow coalitions \u2013 it\u2019s all been accusations and no facts so far<\/a>. And I\u2019m sure most people who have lived in Quebec for decades have, at the very least, some tenuous connections to separatists.<\/p>\n

That said, if Lafond or Jean are close associates of Pierre Laporte\u2019s killers, FLQ sympathizers, or closet separatists, there is no way Michelle Jean should be Canada\u2019s next Governor General. And, if that is the case, there was a massive failure in whoever ran the background checks on the GG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I hope everyone had fun in the NEP free for all discussion last week (I’m still waiting for an explanation on how Trudeau caused the world price of Oil to plummet – come on guys!). Here\u2019s a catch up on some of the news stories of the past seven days: Softwood I\u2019d say it\u2019s […]<\/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\/427"}],"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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}