{"id":1325,"date":"2007-02-28T10:06:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/02\/28\/premier-sees-progress-on-passport-law\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T15:06:07","slug":"premier-sees-progress-on-passport-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/28\/premier-sees-progress-on-passport-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier sees progress on passport law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?604\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Premier Dalton McGuinty says he and two other Canadian premiers &#8220;moved the yardstick forward&#8221; this week in their bid to convince Washington to accept high-security drivers&#8217; licences to enter the U.S., instead of passports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know the Americans are going to do something. We&#8217;re going to have to do something with them. This seems to be the most sensible way to go about it,&#8221; McGuinty told The Review Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario premier, Manitoba&#8217;s Gary Doer and New Brunswick&#8217;s Shawn Graham have been in the American capital since Monday, holding meetings with governors of 20 states and members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re trying to convince American lawmakers to postpone the implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative and to consider alternative documents to a passport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Premier Dalton McGuinty says he and two other Canadian premiers &#8220;moved the yardstick forward&#8221; this week in their bid to convince Washington to accept high-security drivers&#8217; licences to enter the U.S., instead of passports. &#8220;We know the Americans are going to do something. We&#8217;re going to have to do something&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","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=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}