{"id":922,"date":"2006-05-03T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=922"},"modified":"2006-05-03T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T23:18:00","slug":"results-for-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"Results for People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember last election? Remember how Jack Layton told everyone to “elect more NDP MPs”? Remember how he promised this would create “results for people<\/a>“?<\/p>\n

One hundred days in, let’s take a look at the results Jack has generated. Since, as a Liberal, I might be somewhat partisan, I’ll let a completely unbiased person judge the results for people achieved by this government. This completely unbiased person will be…Jack Layton.<\/p>\n

Results for People<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. A “made in the Oil Patch” environmental program <\/a>which has killed Kyoto and “abandoned the environment”.<\/p>\n

2. Nothing <\/a>to create a National Child Care program.<\/p>\n

3. “Nothing for EI, precious little for training<\/a>.” In short, Canadians have been given “a lost opportunity<\/a> for working families”.<\/p>\n

4. A budget with “nothing <\/a>for post-secondary education”. This country will be full of “empty libraries <\/a>because students won’t be able to afford to use them”.<\/p>\n

5. An “arrogant and rigid<\/a>” approach to Canada-US relations, leading to a “rather dramatic extension of military integration <\/a>with the United States”.<\/p>\n

6. Massive corporate tax cuts; “an imprudent action <\/a>that takes us closer to a deficit”.<\/p>\n

I’d say the Liberal TV ads meant to appeal to NDP voters next election are going to write themselves. Or, more precisely, Jack Layton is currently writing them.<\/p>\n

And if he can’t talk about “results for people” or name drop “Ed Broadbent” eight times a day, Jack’s going to need a new pitch to keep the Liberal votes he “borrowed” last time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember last election? Remember how Jack Layton told everyone to “elect more NDP MPs”? Remember how he promised this would create “results for people“? One hundred days in, let’s take a look at the results Jack has generated. Since, as a Liberal, I might be somewhat partisan, I’ll let a completely unbiased person judge the […]<\/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-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}