{"id":2491,"date":"2014-12-05T08:01:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T13:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2014-12-05T08:01:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T13:01:25","slug":"harper-to-ontario-focus-on-economy-not-confrontation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2491","title":{"rendered":"Harper To Ontario: Focus On Economy, Not &#8216;Confrontation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2014\/12\/04\/stephen-harper-ontario-kathleen-wynne_n_6271040.html\">Harper To Ontario: Focus On Economy, Not &#8216;Confrontation&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">MARKHAM, Ont. &#8211; The Prime Minister chastised the Ontario government on Thursday, saying it ought to focus less on &#8220;confrontation&#8221; and more on getting its fiscal house in order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Stephen Harper made his comments at an event in Markham, Ont., where he was asked why it has been so long since he met with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. The two last met a year ago and Wynne has repeatedly voiced her frustrations over not being able to sit down with the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8220;I meet regularly with premiers across the country and we anticipate we will have another meeting at some point in time,&#8221; Harper said, before launching into a series of sharper comments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8220;We all know that the government of Ontario has some pretty significant challenges. I would encourage the government of Ontario to focus on those things, not on confrontation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Harper did not mention Wynne by name, but took time to compare his federal Conservatives with Ontario&#8217;s governing Liberals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harper To Ontario: Focus On Economy, Not &#8216;Confrontation&#8217;. MARKHAM, Ont. &#8211; The Prime Minister chastised the Ontario government on Thursday, saying it ought to focus less on &#8220;confrontation&#8221; and more on getting its fiscal house in order. Stephen Harper made his comments at an event in Markham, Ont., where he was asked why it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1662,1664,1378,1663,749],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-federal-government","tag-kathleen-wynne","tag-ontario","tag-provincial-government","tag-stephen-harper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}