{"id":997,"date":"2006-07-09T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=997"},"modified":"2006-07-09T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-09T22:56:00","slug":"slaying-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"Slaying David"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Emerson is in the news again, over the mounting concerns about his softwood lumber deal<\/a>. Luckily, Emerson is willing to take full responsibility for his file:<\/p>\n

Ottawa; Trade Minister David Emerson, faced with mounting criticism of the new softwood lumber deal with the United States, says if the agreement falls apart it won’t be his fault … and he wouldn’t resign over it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Mr. Emerson shrugged off the notion that he might have to quit his job if the
deal falls through, dismissing the suggestion with a laugh and curt “I don’t
think so.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK…but even if he won’t accept blame for the deal’s failure, Emerson is going to do his darndest to make sure this deal he signed goes through:<\/p>\n

But he added that “this is not something that I intend to bang people over the head about or try to sell it in an aggressive way.”<\/p>\n

If the Canadian softwood industry wants to scuttle the deal by refusing to sign on, that’s up to them, he said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That does seem weird, but luckily Emerson gives a perfectly valid explanation for his indifference towards the biggest file in his Cabinet portfolio and perhaps the entire Harper government:<\/em><\/p>\n

But he insisted that neither his personal political future nor the reputation of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s minority Conservative government are on the line.<\/p>\n

“I don’t consider it, frankly, to be a political issue at all; it’s an economic issue,” said Mr. Emerson.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, it would be a shame to consider a major international treaty worth billions of dollars<\/em> a political issue.<\/p>\n

Although, if David doesn’t consider the economy or foreign relations to be political issues, this does beg the question of what on earth Emerson would classify as a political. Apart from, you know, floor crossing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Emerson is in the news again, over the mounting concerns about his softwood lumber deal. Luckily, Emerson is willing to take full responsibility for his file: Ottawa; Trade Minister David Emerson, faced with mounting criticism of the new softwood lumber deal with the United States, says if the agreement falls apart it won’t be […]<\/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-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}