{"id":575,"date":"2011-12-02T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalcomponent.com\/press\/?p=575"},"modified":"2011-12-02T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:40:06","slug":"an-absurd-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"An absurd choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/thirdchoice-01.png\" alt=\"An absurd choice\" width=\"541\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/thirdchoice-01.png 541w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/thirdchoice-01-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dec 2, 2011\u00a0\u2013 The PSAC says no giant squirrels were harmed in the making their new social media campaign, but the same cannot be said about public services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, the Conservative government is forcing Canadians to choose between a strong economy (no deficit) and strong public services,\u201d wrote PSAC National President John Gordon in an email to union members on Friday. \u201cThe goal of the Third Choice campaign is to highlight the absurdity of this forced choice and encourage Canadians to ask for something better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Third Strike campaign kicked off with a quirky video already circulating widely on Facebook and Twitter. It highlights the absurdity of forcing Canadians to choose between no deficit and strong public services.<\/p>\n<p>Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdchoice.ca\/\">www.thirdchoice.ca<\/a> to see the video for yourself! Don\u2019t forget to share the video on Facebook and Twitter and encourage your friends to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 2, 2011\u00a0\u2013 The PSAC says no giant squirrels were harmed in the making their new social media campaign, but the same cannot be said about public services. \u201cRight now, the Conservative government is forcing Canadians to choose between a strong economy (no deficit) and strong public services,\u201d wrote PSAC National President John Gordon in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=575\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An absurd choice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[116,147,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}