{"id":183,"date":"2006-05-27T22:28:12","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T02:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2006-05-27T22:28:12","modified_gmt":"2006-05-28T02:28:12","slug":"smackdown-of-the-week-may-27th-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown Of The Week (May 27th, 2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s National Post, page A10, Sue Montgomery&#8217;s article entitled <em>Guite will not call witnesses at fraud trial<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two good summer students could have produced that<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These words were spoken by Jacques Nantel, a marketing professeur with the Montreal based Ecole des hautes etudes commerciales, with regards to Groupaction getting paid $500,000 for a report on what Ottawa could do to increase it&#8217;s visibility.  This took place in Chuck Guite&#8217;s trial.<\/p>\n<p>So what Mr. Nantel is saying is that we, the tax payers, paid Groupaction half a million dollars when we could have paid two summer students for the same quality of report.  All I know is that when I worked summers between college, I made anywhere from $7000 to $12000 depending on the job I got that summer.<\/p>\n<p>Are you feeling better about the Liberals getting tossed out on their ears yet?  I know I sure am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s National Post, page A10, Sue Montgomery&#8217;s article entitled Guite will not call witnesses at fraud trial Two good summer students could have produced that These words were spoken by Jacques Nantel, a marketing professeur with the Montreal based Ecole des hautes etudes commerciales, with regards to Groupaction getting paid $500,000 for a report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-federal","category-smackdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}