From the Niagara Falls Review:
While tourism operators decry Ottawa’s plan to scrap the GST rebate for visitors, they are celebrating word out of Washington the much-dreaded passport issue could be put on hold for 17 months as early as Thursday.
“We had better news out of Washington today than out of Ottawa,” Ontario Minister of Tourism Jim Bradley said Tuesday.
Bradley has been a voice in the chorus of Canadian and American legislators and business and tourism insiders against the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which will require Canadians to have a passport when they enter the United States and Americans to have passports when they return home.