{"id":443,"date":"2003-12-12T21:59:42","date_gmt":"2003-12-13T00:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=443"},"modified":"2003-12-12T21:59:42","modified_gmt":"2003-12-13T00:59:42","slug":"canadas-new-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s new PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>A<\/span>s of today, Canada has a new prime minister, Paul Martin. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20031212.wmain1212\/BNStory\/National\/#list\">You probably have already heard of that<\/a>. I find a couple things hard to understand, that is, as a foreigner used to the proportional representation voting system.\n<\/p>\n<p>First of all: I&#8217;m not used to partyleaders becoming prime minister, nor am I convinced that democracy is served when an outgoing prime minister literally appoints his successor. I was hoping that there was going to be a real fight between multiple contenders. Alas.\n<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I&#8217;m used to governments formed out of coalitions, be it 2 parties or even multiple parties. Sure, to try and find a common ground might be the hardest thing but if the voters have elected, then that&#8217;s what they are supposed to get.\n<\/p>\n<p>But anyways: I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judysgro.com\/bio.html\">Judy Sgro<\/a> is becoming the next minister of Citizenship and Immigration (am I the only one who keeps reading &#8216;Judge Judy&#8217;?).  Always handy to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of today, Canada has a new prime minister, Paul Martin. You probably have already heard of that. I find a couple things hard to understand, that is, as a foreigner used to the proportional representation voting system. First of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=443\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}