{"id":15654,"date":"2012-06-25T13:44:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T17:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15654"},"modified":"2021-05-07T18:33:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:33:10","slug":"qotd-working-with-the-pq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/25\/qotd-working-with-the-pq\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Working with the PQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For some reason it is being treated as news that the Prime Minister said he would work with a Parti Quebecois government in the unfortunate circumstance of a PQ victory.<\/p>\n<p>What else was he supposed to say? The PQ has held power several times since Rene Levesque\u2019s first victory in 1976. It\u2019s a democratic country, and provinces can elect whoever they want. Ottawa doesn\u2019t have a choice whether it wants to work with the victor or not. Harper worked with Danny Williams \u2014 well, he tried, anyway \u2014 when the Newfoundland caudillo declared himself the supreme power of El Rocko Independanto and waged a personal war against his Canadian oppressors. Pauline Marois, the PQ leader (at least until the next revolt) can\u2019t be half as annoying as Danny was.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly McParland, <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2012\/06\/25\/why-is-it-news-that-stephen-harper-would-recognize-a-pq-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Why is it news that Stephen Harper would recognize a PQ government?&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2012-06-25<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason it is being treated as news that the Prime Minister said he would work with a Parti Quebecois government in the unfortunate circumstance of a PQ victory. What else was he supposed to say? The PQ has held power several times since Rene Levesque\u2019s first victory in 1976. It\u2019s a democratic country, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[6,84,57,53,41],"tags":[479,842,113,258],"class_list":["post-15654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-newfoundland","tag-partiquebecois","tag-quebec","tag-stephenharper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-44u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15654","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=15654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65616,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15654\/revisions\/65616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}