{"id":789,"date":"2006-02-09T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=789"},"modified":"2006-02-09T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T01:56:00","slug":"the-never-ending-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"The Never Ending Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewcoyne.com\/2006\/02\/not-legally-necessary.php\">Andrew Coyne<\/a>, here are two more all too delicious news stories on everyone&#8217;s favourite topic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/ottawacitizen\/news\/story.html?id=86e028c8-be91-4d83-9b7a-449ba9d6b242\">Michael Fortier <\/a>may be Montreal&#8217;s representative in the newly elected Conservative cabinet, but the Senate riding he will represent in Quebec doesn&#8217;t include any part of the city in its boundaries.<\/em><\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n<p>Heh heh.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/ottawacitizen\/news\/story.html?id=144a0584-979b-461a-879a-5ae6c532cfc3\">Members of Parliament <\/a>who bolt from their parties and cross the floor of the House of Commons should have to quit and face their voters in a byelection, says new Public Works Minister Michael Fortier.<\/em><\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tomorrow: David Emerson speaks out in favour of an elected Senate!<\/p>\n<p>I think Michael Fortier is making a strong case to be the blogging equivalent of Jean Lapierre in the new Harper government &#8211; the gift that keeps on giving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Andrew Coyne, here are two more all too delicious news stories on everyone&#8217;s favourite topic: Michael Fortier may be Montreal&#8217;s representative in the newly elected Conservative cabinet, but the Senate riding he will represent in Quebec doesn&#8217;t include any part of the city in its boundaries. Heh heh. Members of Parliament who bolt [&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-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","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=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}