{"id":958,"date":"2006-06-08T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=958"},"modified":"2006-06-08T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T02:08:00","slug":"hes-a-big-canadian-idol-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s a Big Canadian Idol Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Globe, it appears Brian Mulroney has developed quite the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060608.wxkoreamulroney07\/BNStory\/International\/home\">fan club<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">Seoul \u2014 In times of political hardship, which occur often these days for South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, the embattled politician takes inspiration from the boy from Baie-Comeau. <\/span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">The President consoled officials in his ruling Uri party last week after crushing defeats in local elections by citing the example of Brian Mulroney.<\/p>\n<p>Like the former Canadian prime minister, Mr. Roh is pushing for a new goods and services tax in his own country, despite opposition from most residents and his political rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Roh praised Mr. Mulroney as the man who saved Canada with the GST. According to JoongAng Daily, Mr. Roh paid tribute to Mr. Mulroney during a meeting with government officials after his party won only one of 16 races for mayoral and governor seats.<\/p>\n<p>The article, featuring a prominent photo of Mr. Mulroney, is followed a few pages later by a scathing editorial with the former Canadian prime minister as a cartoon character.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Roh seems to think of Mr. Mulroney whenever he meets a crisis,&#8221; Lee Chul-ho wrote. &#8220;Why does the President choose wicked people as role models?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/bcinto.blogspot.com\/\">A BCer in Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Globe, it appears Brian Mulroney has developed quite the fan club: Seoul \u2014 In times of political hardship, which occur often these days for South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, the embattled politician takes inspiration from the boy from Baie-Comeau. The President consoled officials in his ruling Uri party last week after crushing defeats [&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-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}