{"id":4602,"date":"2013-01-15T00:03:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T05:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2013-01-15T00:03:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T05:03:39","slug":"cauchon-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4602","title":{"rendered":"Cauchon is in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considering how long people have talked about Martin Cauchon running for leadership and how long Martin Cauchon has resisted the urge to run for leadership, it was surprising to see him jump into the LPC race mere <em>hours <\/em>before the deadline to declare.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how Cauchon positions himself, but he&#8217;s certainly a welcome addition to the contest. Despite being out of the game for a few years, he has nearly as much MP experience as the rest of the field <em>combined<\/em>. Cauchon will no doubt highlight his record as the Justice Minister who decriminalized pot and legalized same sex marriage &#8211; and who can forget the thrilling changes to the tax code he brought in as Minister of Revenue!<\/p>\n<p>This sets the field at 9 candidates, with Justin in front, followed by 4 former or current MPs, and 4 long shots who are effectively in it to raise their profile. It will take a lot to knock Trudeau out but, at the very least, the presence of solid candidates like Martin Cauchon ensures Trudeau will be challenged on the issues, and that viable alternatives exist if he does stumble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering how long people have talked about Martin Cauchon running for leadership and how long Martin Cauchon has resisted the urge to run for leadership, it was surprising to see him jump into the LPC race mere hours before the deadline to declare. It will be interesting to see how Cauchon positions himself, but he&#8217;s [&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],"tags":[1007],"class_list":["post-4602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-lpc-leadership-race","tag-martin-cauchon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602","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=4602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4604,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions\/4604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}