{"id":541,"date":"2008-10-14T22:07:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T02:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/?p=541"},"modified":"2008-10-14T22:07:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T02:07:52","slug":"vote-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/vote-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry St\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a9phane Dion &#8211; I think you had some great policies and had some great ideas for Canada.  But how one projects their leadership counts for a lot.  One can lament that state of affairs, but at the same time a whole party, caucus or cabinet can bring forward policy, but there is only one part leader.<\/p>\n<p>St\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a9phane was able to bring a lot of good ideas forward but often at the same time, in the same sentence.  He also brought a surprising amount syllables to English Canadians.  One of his best decisions was to form a pact with Elizabeth May because at least there was someone to explain the Green Shift.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals apparently still need to complete their re-invention, and in the end the election was probably a necessary step.<\/p>\n<p>Canadians are left with the same mean-spirited, close-minded, and needlessly-combative government that promised to takeover and bring integrity to Ottawa and has so far done anything but.  It&#8217;s small comfort that it will only be a Conservative Minority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry St\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a9phane Dion &#8211; I think you had some great policies and had some great ideas for Canada. But how one projects their leadership counts for a lot. One can lament that state of affairs, but at the same time a whole party, caucus or cabinet can bring forward policy, but there is only one&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/vote-shift\/\">Continue Reading<span> Vote Shift<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}