{"id":10236,"date":"2011-07-12T13:12:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T17:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10236"},"modified":"2011-07-12T13:12:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T17:12:37","slug":"settling-the-caledonia-issue-in-time-for-the-provincial-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/12\/settling-the-caledonia-issue-in-time-for-the-provincial-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Settling the Caledonia issue . . . in time for the provincial election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2011\/07\/11\/christie-blatchford-deal-tries-to-hush-up-disgrace-of-caledonia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christie Blatchford<\/a> finds the timing of the settlement to be &#8220;arguably suspicious&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The last page of the Caledonia class action settlement is the one that tells the shameful truth of what happened five years ago in that lovely small southwestern Ontario town.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement was the result of a lawsuit against the government and the Ontario Provincial Police filed by 440 residents, 400 businesses and a handful of sub-contractors affected by the native occupation there five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The deal has been repeatedly portrayed purely as a \u201ccompensation\u201d package since it was formally announced by the Ontario government last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s brief press release used carefully neutral language: The settlement is called an \u201cagreement\u201d which \u201cprovides compensation\u201d for those who suffered \u201cdirect losses\u201d during the course of \u201cthe protest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is, in a word, bunk.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christie Blatchford finds the timing of the settlement to be &#8220;arguably suspicious&#8221;: The last page of the Caledonia class action settlement is the one that tells the shameful truth of what happened five years ago in that lovely small southwestern Ontario town. The settlement was the result of a lawsuit against the government and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,10,53],"tags":[637,438,87,98],"class_list":["post-10236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-liberty","category-politics","tag-caledonia","tag-firstnations","tag-ontario","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2F6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10237,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10236\/revisions\/10237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}