{"id":1685,"date":"2007-06-13T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/13\/bradley-cautiously-optimistic-about-passport-requirement\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T13:42:10","slug":"bradley-cautiously-optimistic-about-passport-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/bradley-cautiously-optimistic-about-passport-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley &#8216;cautiously optimistic&#8217; about passport requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?778\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Early and consistent lobbying of American security officials and border states regarding a plan to require passports at land crossings appears to be paying off, St. Catharines MPP Jim Bradley told a luncheon crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario tourism minister and minister responsible for seniors said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has taken an interest in Ontario&#8217;s secure driver&#8217;s licence document, and it looks like it will be accepted at the border and perhaps adopted in other jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re now entertaining that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think we&#8217;re making significant improvement, and I&#8217;m cautiously optimistic about that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: Early and consistent lobbying of American security officials and border states regarding a plan to require passports at land crossings appears to be paying off, St. Catharines MPP Jim Bradley told a luncheon crowd. Ontario tourism minister and minister responsible for seniors said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has taken&#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-1685","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\/1685","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=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}