{"id":449,"date":"2005-08-31T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=449"},"modified":"2005-08-31T00:26:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T04:26:00","slug":"come-hell-or-high-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"Come Hell Or High Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/1125344614207_120753814\/?hub=TopStories\">In the news now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Paul Martin exercised his patronage prerogative again Monday, making his 15th and 16th appointments to the unelected Senate since becoming prime minister.<br \/>Martin rewarded Montrealer Francis Fox &#8211; one of the architects of his Liberal minority election win and former principal secretary &#8211; with a $119,300-a-year job.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/1079542113644_74951313\/\">In thew news 17 months ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">In a campaign-style speech delivered to the Quebec City Chamber of Commerce, Martin promised he is &#8220;personally and profoundly committed to rapid and permanent changes in the way things are done in Ottawa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have declared all-out war against waste and mismanagement. We will put an end to cronyism,&#8221; the prime minister said in French.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am going to change the way Ottawa works,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is not a slogan, this is reality. We are going to change the way government works. And we will do it come Hell or high water.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the news now: OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Paul Martin exercised his patronage prerogative again Monday, making his 15th and 16th appointments to the unelected Senate since becoming prime minister.Martin rewarded Montrealer Francis Fox &#8211; one of the architects of his Liberal minority election win and former principal secretary &#8211; with a $119,300-a-year job. In [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","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=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}