{"id":1153,"date":"2011-09-27T23:09:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T05:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2011-09-27T23:09:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T05:09:26","slug":"my-letter-to-margaret-wente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/my-letter-to-margaret-wente\/","title":{"rendered":"My letter to Margaret Wente"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Replying to: http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/opinions\/margaret-wente\/jack-laytons-legacy-and-our-yearning-for-political-civility\/article2146436\/<\/p>\n<p>Dear Margaret,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 19px;\">I loved your column on Layton&#8217;s Legacy. <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 19px;\">Spot on about civility. True that the NDP has to <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 19px;\">get it s act together &#8212; and in the absence of Jack, <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 19px;\">hmmmm&#8230; what will it be? It seems precarious.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>A good leader is so important, and it seems,\u00a0there are not too many of them in public office these\u00a0days.\u00a0One minor\/major thing: Harper won a &#8216;majority&#8217; of seats,\u00a0but those seats don&#8217;t represent a majority of Canadians.\u00a0As long as you and others in the media keep saying\u00a0&#8220;Mr. Harper&#8217;s sizable majority&#8221;\u00a0the Harper Govt is \u00a0going to continue to delude themselves\u00a0&#8212; and other Canadians &#8212; \u00a0that a majority of Canadians\u00a0elected him, when in fact, the majority of Canadians\u00a0did not. The elected govt is \u00a0going to continue to think they have a blank check\u00a0to do whatever they want.\u00a0Because of your platform and readership, you have a special opportunity\u00a0to remind everyone that this majority is not a majority, \u00a0. . . . and that\u00a0there are plenty of Canadians whose voices and wishes are\u00a0not heard, or seen, or listened to\u00a0by this\u00a0&#8216;majority&#8217; government.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harper&#8217;s &#8216;majority&#8217; is not a majority of Canadians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}