{"id":916,"date":"2006-04-27T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=916"},"modified":"2006-04-27T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T15:19:00","slug":"the-fix-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"The Fix is in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;ve been critical of a lot of Conservative policies (OK<em>&#8230;all<\/em> Conservative policies)<em>,<\/em> this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060427.wxelections27\/BNStory\/National\/home\">one idea <\/a>which I really do like.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously it doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense in a minority government situation, but there&#8217;s no reason not to have fixed election dates when majority governments have been elected. Just from an internal party perspective it makes things <em>a lot<\/em> easier with respect to timing conventions and nomination meetings. The guessing game parties have to go through for candidate nominations is hell, and having a real timeline as to when the next election is would be a huge benefit.<\/p>\n<p>It would also eliminate the asinine media &#8220;will they or won&#8217;t they&#8221; media speculation as to when the election call is coming. And it would remove a major benefit of incumbency and prevent the five year stretch terms when the current government is floundering in the polls (*<em>cough*MulroneyCampbell*cough<\/em>*).<\/p>\n<p>So good on the Tories for proposing this. Hopefully the other parties will be supportive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;ve been critical of a lot of Conservative policies (OK&#8230;all Conservative policies), this is one idea which I really do like. Obviously it doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense in a minority government situation, but there&#8217;s no reason not to have fixed election dates when majority governments have been elected. Just from an internal [&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-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","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=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}