{"id":197,"date":"2006-06-06T21:49:35","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T01:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2006-06-06T21:49:35","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T01:49:35","slug":"smackdown-june-6th-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown (June 6th, 2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Question Period the following exchange took place today between Liberal Defence Critic, Ujjal Dosanjh, and Minister of National Defence, Gordon O&#8217;Connor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dosanjh: <font color=\"#ff0000\">Mr. Speaker, Could the Minister of National Defence confirm that under International Trade and Arms Regulations, C-17 aircraft that the Canadian government plans to purchase from the United States would carry with it a veto for the U.S. over where in the world that aircraft could be flown?<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connor: <font color=\"#0000ff\">Mr. Speaker, the government has made no decisions on any equipment, as I&#8217;ve said a number of times in this House.  But I&#8217;d would like to quote the member (Dosanjh) who had a press conference yesterday who said:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#8220;The conservatives campaigned on strategic airlift acquisitions.  Once in government, they refuse to deviate from their political platform.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I can understand why somebody from the liberal party would say something like that because they deviate from their platforms all the time.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Simply Priceless!!  Well done Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Question Period the following exchange took place today between Liberal Defence Critic, Ujjal Dosanjh, and Minister of National Defence, Gordon O&#8217;Connor. Dosanjh: Mr. Speaker, Could the Minister of National Defence confirm that under International Trade and Arms Regulations, C-17 aircraft that the Canadian government plans to purchase from the United States would carry with [&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-197","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\/197","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=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}