{"id":4347,"date":"2012-11-21T14:51:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T19:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2012-11-21T17:15:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T22:15:44","slug":"role-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4347","title":{"rendered":"Role Reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/11\/21\/rae-forced-to-apologize-after-david-mcguinty-says-alberta-tories-should-go-home\/\">Now<\/a> I know how Conservative candidates running in tight Ontario races must feel whenever Rob Anders opens his mouth during a federal election campaign:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Rae forced to apologize after David McGuinty says Alberta Tories should \u2018go home\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae has apologized for a colleague who suggested Alberta Conservative MPs are shills for the oil industry and should \u201cgo home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rae says Ottawa MP David McGuinty\u2019s comments were a mistake and certainly not helpful, coming less than a week before a Calgary byelection in which the Liberals have high hopes of an upset.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><code><br \/><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, &#8220;<em>certainly not helpful<\/em>&#8221; is an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone who might be wondering why the Liberal Party hasn&#8217;t won a seat in Calgary in over 40 years, David McGuinty has just answered that question for you.<br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/code><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/code><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/em>: David McGuinty has resigned as Resources and Energy critic. Clearly, the Liberals are taking the Calgary Center by-election seriously, because there&#8217;s no way this would have been a firing offense one year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I know how Conservative candidates running in tight Ontario races must feel whenever Rob Anders opens his mouth during a federal election campaign: Rae forced to apologize after David McGuinty says Alberta Tories should \u2018go home\u2019 Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae has apologized for a colleague who suggested Alberta Conservative MPs are shills for [&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":[202],"tags":[1296,1309,1002],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347"}],"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=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4351,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions\/4351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}