{"id":470,"date":"2005-09-15T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=470"},"modified":"2005-09-15T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T20:45:00","slug":"the-invisible-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adrienne Clarkson is now hinting that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/cpress\/20050914\/ca_pr_on_na\/governor_general_farewell;_ylt=AveBxMx4UOB9n7GOH7797f.FM1IB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl\">she may have played a role <\/a>in the non-confidence vote insanity we saw earlier this spring:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">&#8220;You may be surprised and interested to know that I am really glad to have participated in (a minority government),&#8221; Clarkson said in a speech Wednesday, her largest final engagement and a farewell of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My constitutional role has lain in what are called &#8216;reserve powers:&#8217; making sure that there is a prime minister and a government in place, and exercising the right &#8216;to encourage, to advise, and to warn,&#8217; &#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without really revealing any secrets, I can tell you that I have done all three.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Feel free to suggest your own theory, but it sounds to me like she talked to Martin after the Liberals lost the &#8220;non non-confidence&#8221; vote and told him he had to hold a definitive vote of confidence within a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrienne Clarkson is now hinting that she may have played a role in the non-confidence vote insanity we saw earlier this spring: &#8220;You may be surprised and interested to know that I am really glad to have participated in (a minority government),&#8221; Clarkson said in a speech Wednesday, her largest final engagement and a farewell [&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-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}