{"id":79,"date":"2005-12-24T17:32:27","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T22:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2005-12-24T17:32:27","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T22:32:27","slug":"is-there-a-get-out-of-debt-free-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Is There A Get Out Of Debt Free Card?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I swear, she is going to become one of my favourite columnists.   Sheila Copps has written another article dropping an election bomb.  In her article Parties counting pennies&#8211;Elections Canada says Liberals in debt as they head into the final weeks of the campaign she lists some of the information posted at Elections Canada.<\/p>\n<table width=\"428\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#bbe5e5\" style=\"width: 428px\"><font size=\"-1\" face=\"arial\">According to Elections Canada, in their last annual filing, the Liberal Party of Canada was $34,818,257.32 in debt, by way of 13 bank loans. The Bloc Quebecois has more than $10 million in outstanding loans, mostly from the Caisse Desjardins. The NDP has several modest loans outstanding, totalling a little more than $3 million. The Conservatives are debt-free.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The Liberal Party says the figure is inaccurate and that it is much lower.  Even if they haven&#8217;t counted recent donations, I am really appreciating this one.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing the party with the spit and polish commercials is in the hole and the party with the frugal, visually lacklustre, albeit informative, ads is in the black.  I like the idea of the one in the black spending our tax dollars.<\/p>\n<p>I have a suggestion for Paul Martin.  Why not move the Liberal Party Of Canada legally to the Carribean?  Do you know what the tax savings could be????&#8230;Oh wait&#8230;you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear, she is going to become one of my favourite columnists. Sheila Copps has written another article dropping an election bomb. In her article Parties counting pennies&#8211;Elections Canada says Liberals in debt as they head into the final weeks of the campaign she lists some of the information posted at Elections Canada. According to [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}