{"id":926,"date":"2006-05-05T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=926"},"modified":"2006-05-05T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-06T03:22:00","slug":"the-new-leader-of-the-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"The New Leader of the Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Liberals in the midst of a leadership race, it appears that it won&#8217;t so much be Bill Graham who is Stephen Harper&#8217;s biggest foe. Rather, Dalton McGuinty seems to have taken on the role of opposition leader to Stephen Harper. It makes sense; with Ralph Klein neutered and Jean Charest being courted, an Ontario-Ottawa confrontation was almost inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>While McGuinty has been critical of the PM, Stephen Harper made it personal yesterday by introducing John Tory as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&amp;amp;cid=1146826880083&#038;call_pageid=968256289824&amp;col=968342212737\">the next Premier of Ontario<\/a>&#8220;. At the same time, Dalton must be growing a little bit jealous of Jean Charest who appears to get weekly dates with Harper, photo ops, a voice in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060505.wunesco0505\/BNStory\/National\/home\">foreign affairs<\/a>, you name it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to say where this feud will end, but with Harper musing about redefining confederation, the next year should make for very interesting political theater.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In Other News&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Harper has &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060505.wagenda0505\/BNStory\/National\/home\">flip-flopped<\/a>&#8221; on the release of the Prime Ministerial agenda. If there is anyone out there who:<\/p>\n<p>a) understands this issue<br \/>b) knows why we should care about it<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear from you in the comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Liberals in the midst of a leadership race, it appears that it won&#8217;t so much be Bill Graham who is Stephen Harper&#8217;s biggest foe. Rather, Dalton McGuinty seems to have taken on the role of opposition leader to Stephen Harper. It makes sense; with Ralph Klein neutered and Jean Charest being courted, an [&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-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","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=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}