{"id":8321,"date":"2017-04-05T12:37:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T16:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8321"},"modified":"2017-04-05T12:37:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T16:37:53","slug":"flying-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8321","title":{"rendered":"Flying coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t often post pictures of my friends, but this time, I have my friend Perry’s permission.<\/p>\n

Perry was flying west the other day. While waiting at the airport, he encountered a familiar face. The familiar face belonged to Canada’s Minister of National Defence, Harjit Singh Sajjan.<\/p>\n

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The Honourable Minister was probably flying back to his Vancouver riding, which he represents in Parliament.<\/p>\n

Whatever the reason, the remarkable thing is this: Mr. Sajjan\u00a0was traveling\u00a0the same way most\u00a0other Canadian would travel. On a commercial airliner, flying coach.<\/p>\n

Let me repeat that, this time in boldface: Canada’s Minister of National Defence, traveling\u00a0cross-country on a commercial airliner, flying coach<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I am so glad Mr. Sajjan\u00a0allowed Perry to take this selfie, and that Perry kindly permitted me to repost it. This was not a moment designed for publicity. As far as I know, Mr. Sajjan\u00a0does not publicize the manner in which he travels. He just… does the right thing.<\/p>\n

And the other remarkable thing is that he can<\/em> do this. It speaks volumes about our country and our government.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t often post pictures of my friends, but this time, I have my friend Perry’s permission. Perry was flying west the other day. While waiting at the airport, he encountered a familiar face. The familiar face belonged to Canada’s Minister of National Defence, Harjit Singh Sajjan. The Honourable Minister was probably flying back to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-personal","category-politics","category-22-id","category-35-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8328,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321\/revisions\/8328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}