{"id":9169,"date":"2011-05-04T07:44:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9169"},"modified":"2011-05-04T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T11:44:09","slug":"some-of-the-troubles-facing-the-federal-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/04\/some-of-the-troubles-facing-the-federal-liberals\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of the troubles facing the federal Liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/05\/04\/the-liberals%E2%80%99-rough-road-ahead\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah-Ta\u00efssir Bencharif<\/a> lists the financial issues alone:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Whoever replaces Michael Ignatieff next week will be the Liberals\u2019 fifth leader in five years. And he, or she, won\u2019t be getting much of a prize. Fewer seats, less status and no keys to Stornoway.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals will also have to rebuild with less funding: fewer votes mean less public subsidy, and the NDP now receives the money allocated to the Official Opposition.<\/p>\n<p>If Stephen Harper indeed eliminates public subsidies for the parties, they will be further pushed to do more with less. The Liberals will have to relearn how to talk to voters to get their money and their support.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The current system has worked well for the Liberals, allowing them to reduce their dependence on individual donations to the party. Changing that system now will be a double burden for them, as they will have to ramp up their fundraising efforts from a much-reduced base (and still facing the costs of the most recent election campaign).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah-Ta\u00efssir Bencharif lists the financial issues alone: Whoever replaces Michael Ignatieff next week will be the Liberals\u2019 fifth leader in five years. And he, or she, won\u2019t be getting much of a prize. Fewer seats, less status and no keys to Stornoway. The Liberals will also have to rebuild with less funding: fewer votes mean [&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":[6,25,53],"tags":[188,296],"class_list":["post-9169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-politics","tag-electionwatch","tag-michaelignatieff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2nT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169","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=9169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9170,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions\/9170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}