{"id":1021,"date":"2006-09-27T08:10:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T12:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/09\/27\/tourism-sector-thrilled-over-possible-id-delay\/"},"modified":"2006-09-27T08:10:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T12:10:23","slug":"tourism-sector-thrilled-over-possible-id-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/27\/tourism-sector-thrilled-over-possible-id-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism sector thrilled over possible ID delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?465\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While tourism operators decry Ottawa&#8217;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We had better news out of Washington today than out of Ottawa,&#8221; Ontario Minister of Tourism Jim Bradley said Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: While tourism operators decry Ottawa&#8217;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. &#8220;We had better news out of Washington today than out of Ottawa,&#8221; Ontario Minister&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}