{"id":5192,"date":"2013-06-04T10:05:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T14:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=5192"},"modified":"2013-06-04T10:05:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T14:05:53","slug":"i-approve-this-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=5192","title":{"rendered":"I Approve This Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like Michael Chong&#8217;s QP reforms, which died in parliamentary purgatory, this is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2013\/06\/03\/liberal_mps_political_advertising_bill_would_force_party_leaders_to_endorse_attack_ads.html\">worthwhile bill<\/a> by Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux, albeit one unlikely to ever see the light of day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kevin Lamoureux, a Liberal MP from Winnipeg, wants all political party leaders to be forced to stand by the content of their ads, with U.S.-style endorsements or tag lines at the end, acknowledging that approval for the advertising comes from the top.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t kill negative advertising by any means, but it would at least make political parties wear whatever mud they throw. While I&#8217;m sure the Tories will shoot this bill down, they have been the victims of some truly nasty ads themselves in the past, so it&#8217;s one they should at least consider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Michael Chong&#8217;s QP reforms, which died in parliamentary purgatory, this is a worthwhile bill by Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux, albeit one unlikely to ever see the light of day: Kevin Lamoureux, a Liberal MP from Winnipeg, wants all political party leaders to be forced to stand by the content of their ads, with U.S.-style [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[12,983],"tags":[1256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192"}],"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=5192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5198,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions\/5198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}