{"id":363,"date":"2008-11-28T11:03:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T11:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:49","slug":"just-in-case-you-have-not-been-paying-attention-to-canada-over-the-last-couple-of-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Just in case you have not been paying attention to Canada over the last couple of days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/article.jsp?content=n112827A\">real chance<\/a> that Harper&#8217;s government could fall over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20081127.weconomy27\/BNStory\/politics\/home\">move by the Conservatives to eliminate public subsidies for political parties<\/a>, a move which could bankrupt every party but his own. This could mean either another Canadian election or the possibility that the other parties could join together to form a coalition government, something that has happened only one other time in Canadian history. Former party leaders Jean Chretien and Ed Broadbent are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20081128.wPOLcoalition1128\/BNStory\/politics\/home\">apparently involved<\/a> in this attempt to bring the parties together.<\/p>\n<p>This is, as one article put it, a political game of chicken. I have to imagine that Harper will be the first to give up his desire to make this a confidence vote. Otherwise, he may wind up the leader of the sole opposition party in a most anomalous sitting of the House of Commons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be a real chance that Harper&#8217;s government could fall over the move by the Conservatives to eliminate public subsidies for political parties, a move which could bankrupt every party but his own. This could mean either another Canadian election or the possibility that the other parties could join together to form a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-politics","category-us-of-eh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}