{"id":887,"date":"2006-04-05T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=887"},"modified":"2006-04-05T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T18:10:00","slug":"let-the-floodgates-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=887","title":{"rendered":"Let The Floodgates Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to tell if it&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060405.wkennedy0405\/BNStory\/National\/home\">official announcement<\/a>, but with Gerard Kennedy quitting his job as Ontario Education Minister today, I think we can add a third name to the <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/leadership-speculation.html\">confirmed candidate list<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060405.wpeterson0405\/BNStory\/National\">Bob Rae <\/a>took the equally daunting task of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060405.wxrae05\/BNStory\/National\/home\">buying a Liberal membership <\/a>today. If that isn&#8217;t dedication to the Liberal Party, I don&#8217;t know what is.<\/p>\n<p>From the sound of things, Michael Ignatieff and Stephane Dion will be joining the list of declared candidates on Friday, with most of the others to follow shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s foolish to handicap a race that will go at least four ballots, I think it&#8217;s a safe bet that anyone from Dion, Dryden, Kennedy, Ignatieff, or Brison could win this thing. Stronach and Rae will do well but I just can&#8217;t see any growth potential for them after the first ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to tell if it&#8217;s an official announcement, but with Gerard Kennedy quitting his job as Ontario Education Minister today, I think we can add a third name to the confirmed candidate list. And Bob Rae took the equally daunting task of buying a Liberal membership today. If that isn&#8217;t dedication to the Liberal [&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-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","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=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}