{"id":4357,"date":"2012-11-26T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2012-11-25T12:55:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T17:55:06","slug":"bring-on-the-astronaut-puns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4357","title":{"rendered":"Bring on the Astronaut Puns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4358\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/garneau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/garneau-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"garneau\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/garneau-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/garneau.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marc Garneau,  C.C., CD, Ph.D., F.C.A.S.I., MP &#8211; Canadian hero and the Liberal Party&#8217;s &#8220;Plan B&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The moment headline writers have been waiting for all summer has finally arrived, with Marc Garneau set to formally launch his Liberal leadership candidacy this week. Despite having a lengthy string of post-nominal letters after his name, and the most impressive CV of any Member of Parliament, Garneau enters this leadership race as a heavy underdog. Ironically, the astronaut simply lacks the star power to compete with Justin Trudeau. <\/p>\n<p>Despite being a genuine Canadian hero and an experienced parliamentarian, Garneau has zero chance of <em>winning <\/em>this race. However, should Trudeau <em>lose <\/em>the race, Garneau (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?tag=martha-hall-findlay\">Martha Hall Findlay<\/a>) now offer Liberals proven candidates to fall back on. After seeing the Justin Trudeau juggernaut <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/11\/24\/justin-trudeaus-anti-alberta-remarks-arent-going-over-well-in-quebec-either\/\">hit its first road bump last week<\/a>, the importance of that role should now be obvious to everyone. Politics is an unpredictable game, and it doesn&#8217;t take a long time for rising stars to get tossed out with yesterday&#8217;s news.<\/p>\n<p>Leadership campaigns are about putting leaders to the test, but that principle only works if there&#8217;s some accountability for a failing grade. If Trudeau doesn&#8217;t have the right stuff, Liberals can&#8217;t afford to be in a position where a fatally wounded candidate becomes leader by default.<\/p>\n<p>The role of &#8220;safety school&#8221; may sound demeaning for someone as accomplished as Garneau, but it&#8217;s an important role to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moment headline writers have been waiting for all summer has finally arrived, with Marc Garneau set to formally launch his Liberal leadership candidacy this week. Despite having a lengthy string of post-nominal letters after his name, and the most impressive CV of any Member of Parliament, Garneau enters this leadership race as a heavy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102,983],"tags":[1000,1006],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-lpc-leadership-race","category-federal-politics","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-marc-garneau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4363,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions\/4363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}