{"id":490,"date":"2005-10-05T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=490"},"modified":"2005-10-05T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T07:03:00","slug":"playing-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Playing Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a none too shocking move, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/cpress\/20051004\/ca_pr_on_na\/liberals_elxn\">Tony Valeri has pushed the opposition days back <\/a>to the end of the House&#8217;s sitting, dealing a blow to anyone who has a fall election date in their pool. For those who haven&#8217;t already done the math, if the Tories were to use their first opposition day to bring down the government, that would set us up for a Boxing Day election. It&#8217;s also fairly obvious the Liberals won&#8217;t bring forward any confidence motions they wouldn&#8217;t want to fight an election over.<\/p>\n<p>The CPC has made it clear they won&#8217;t trigger an election without the NDP but if Jack decides he wants to go now, that means we&#8217;re back to bizarre parliamentary conventions and procedures no one has ever heard about. It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me to see a quasi-confidence vote which could force the new GG into an awkward position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a none too shocking move, Tony Valeri has pushed the opposition days back to the end of the House&#8217;s sitting, dealing a blow to anyone who has a fall election date in their pool. For those who haven&#8217;t already done the math, if the Tories were to use their first opposition day to bring [&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-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}