{"id":198,"date":"2012-12-05T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T11:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2012-12-05T11:22:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T11:22:57","slug":"liberals-to-hold-policy-convention-but-wont-talk-about-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/liberals-to-hold-policy-convention-but-wont-talk-about-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals to hold policy convention, but won&#8217;t talk about policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Post Body Copy -->\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/pics\/ignatieff.commons.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Ignatieff\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Hill Times<br \/>\nMarch 16th, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Liberals to hold policy convention, but won&#8217;t talk about policy <\/p>\n<p>Grits say they&#8217;re avoiding making any policy suggestions that the governing Conservatives can copy in the next election<\/p>\n<p>By Harris MacLeod<\/p>\n<p>The federal Liberals will hold a major policy convention in early May, but they are refusing to discuss policy ideas and say they are avoiding making any policy suggestions that the governing Conservatives can copy in the next election.<\/p>\n<p>They say they are keeping their still-developing campaign platform top secret in order to keep the focus squarely on the government amidst the rapidly deteriorating economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What your policies are going to be in an election are announced just before you go into it. You don&#8217;t want to provide an opportunity for target practice in the meantime,&#8221; said Liberal Senator David Smith, one of four national campaign co-chairs charged with preparing the party for the next election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100903064846\/http:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/html\/cover_index.php?display=story&#038;full_path=\/2009\/march\/16\/policy_convention\/&#038;c=1\">Article Continues<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Liberals%20to%20hold%20policy%20convention%2C%20but%20won%27t%20talk%20about%20policy\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill Times March 16th, 2009 Liberals to hold policy convention, but won&#8217;t talk about policy Grits say they&#8217;re avoiding making any policy suggestions that the governing Conservatives can copy in the next election By Harris MacLeod The federal Liberals will hold a major policy convention in early May, but<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Liberals%20to%20hold%20policy%20convention%2C%20but%20won%27t%20talk%20about%20policy\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,23,24,7,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-canada","category-democracy","category-freemasons","category-liberal-party","category-michael-ignatieff",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}