{"id":539,"date":"2005-11-09T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=539"},"modified":"2005-11-09T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T06:29:00","slug":"your-nightly-election-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Your Nightly Election Speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Developments for Tuesday, November 8th:<\/p>\n

Top News<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Stephen Harper is undecided <\/a>as to how he will vote on the December 8th spending estimates, a confidence vote.<\/p>\n

2. Jack, however, has said he will vote against the spending estimates <\/a>on the 8th. Huh? So now the NDP is against the Liberal budget and the Tories are for it? Odd times…<\/p>\n

3. Harper, as of now, does not intend to introduce a non-confidence motion on the November 15h opposition day, but says his motion will be “interesting”. I personally can’t see Stephen Harper ever doing anything “interesting” in his lifetime, but maybe he’ll surprise me.<\/p>\n

4. Gilles Duceppe has said he won’t introduce a non-confidence motion, saying it’s up to the federalist parties to do so, and he will join them on it when they do.<\/p>\n

Blogs<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. My Blahg has the funniest picture <\/a>you’ll see this week.<\/p>\n

2. Stephen Taylor <\/a>breaks down the latest polling numbers.<\/p>\n

3. Monte Solberg rants <\/a>about the current situation.<\/p>\n

Key Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first Tory opposition day is November 15th. The Bloc has one the 17th and the NDP has one the 24th. The spending estimates come to a vote on December 8th.<\/p>\n

Speculation<\/strong><\/p>\n

-I imagine Ralph Goodale is busy beefing up his economic update this week.<\/p>\n

-A lot of people seem to think we might wait until the 8th for the non-confidence vote but, for the life of me, I can’t see why the opposition parties would want to bring down the government on spending estimates when they could do it on a harshly worded non-confidence motion. I tend to think all signs are pointing to the NDP introducing a non-confidence motion on the 24th. That would likely leave us on track for a vote on January 7th or 16th, assuming a break from the campaign over the holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Developments for Tuesday, November 8th: Top News 1. Stephen Harper is undecided as to how he will vote on the December 8th spending estimates, a confidence vote. 2. Jack, however, has said he will vote against the spending estimates on the 8th. Huh? So now the NDP is against the Liberal budget and the Tories […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}