{"id":154,"date":"2008-09-07T07:09:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T14:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/?p=154"},"modified":"2008-09-07T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T14:25:10","slug":"election-on-oct-4-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Election on Oct. 4 in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/canadianpress.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5ghudALpOFy3WLTmTNnS_N4xepvbQ\">http:\/\/canadianpress.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5ghudALpOFy3WLTmTNnS_N4xepvbQ<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have an election on October 14.<\/p>\n<p>What happened to the fixed-term election law?\u00c2\u00a0 Why pass laws that can just be ignored?\u00c2\u00a0 Were the Conservatives just pandering to stupid voters?\u00c2\u00a0 Are we really this stupid?<\/p>\n<p>My understanding is that the fixed-term law was mostly a lie, the governor-general has the power to dissolve the parliament and will do so whenever asked by the PM.\u00c2\u00a0 With the current law, the PM can call a convenient snap election at any time, but the maximum life of a Parliament is now four years.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Steve&#8221; passed a law that changed the maximum life of a Parliament from 5 to 4 years.\u00c2\u00a0 Pffff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/canadianpress.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5ghudALpOFy3WLTmTNnS_N4xepvbQ We&#8217;ll have an election on October 14. What happened to the fixed-term election law?\u00c2\u00a0 Why pass laws that can just be ignored?\u00c2\u00a0 Were the Conservatives just pandering to stupid voters?\u00c2\u00a0 Are we really this stupid? My understanding is that the fixed-term law was mostly a lie, the governor-general has the power to dissolve the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}