{"id":6741,"date":"2014-02-18T21:24:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T02:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=6741"},"modified":"2014-02-18T21:24:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T02:24:53","slug":"a-brief-history-of-stephen-harper-supporting-our-troops-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=6741","title":{"rendered":"A brief history of Stephen Harper supporting our troops (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Harper<\/a><\/p>\n

“In 2006, after the Liberal \u2018decade of darkness,\u2019 we took action to rebuild Canada\u2019s Armed Forces.”<\/em>
\n–Stephen Harper<\/a>
\n
<\/code>
\nOctober 2010: “Prime Minister Stephen Harper\u2019s government is scrambling to contain an ever-widening scandal in which officials deliberately tried to ruin the reputation of outspoken military veterans<\/em><\/a>”<\/p>\n

October 2011: Veterans Ombudsman Questions Harper Government Cuts To Veterans Affairs<\/a><\/p>\n

November 2011: Veterans across Canada protest against planned budget cuts and benefits<\/a><\/p>\n

March 2012: Veterans consider suing MP accused of dozing off<\/a><\/p>\n

April 2012: Veterans concerned over cuts to case workers<\/a><\/p>\n

September 2012: Feds spent over $750,000 in five-year court battle against vets\u2019 pension claim<\/a><\/p>\n

February 2013: Reserve budgets slashed by almost 25 per cent despite Harper\u2019s order to avoid front-line reductions<\/a><\/p>\n

April 9, 2013: Danger pay reduced for Canadian troops in Afghanistan<\/a><\/p>\n

April 21, 2013: Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan ordered to return danger pay<\/a><\/p>\n

February 11, 2014: “The Defence Department was effectively stripped today of more than $3 billion it had planned to spend on major new military purchases in the near future, in what amounts to the second major setback it\u2019s faced in as many weeks<\/em>.”<\/a><\/p>\n

February 16, 2014: Former general Andrew Leslie accuses Tories of smear over moving expenses<\/a><\/p>\n


<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In 2006, after the Liberal \u2018decade of darkness,\u2019 we took action to rebuild Canada\u2019s Armed Forces.” –Stephen Harper October 2010: “Prime Minister Stephen Harper\u2019s government is scrambling to contain an ever-widening scandal in which officials deliberately tried to ruin the reputation of outspoken military veterans” October 2011: Veterans Ombudsman Questions Harper Government Cuts To Veterans […]<\/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":[1453,1454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741"}],"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=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6743,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions\/6743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}