{"id":17918,"date":"2016-08-04T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17918"},"modified":"2016-08-04T09:42:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T13:42:12","slug":"border-agency-defends-staffing-despite-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/04\/border-agency-defends-staffing-despite-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Border agency defends staffing, despite delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/08\/03\/border-agency-defends-staffing-despite-delays\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Border delays into Canada \u2014 sometimes topping an hour \u2014 are unacceptable, says Niagara Falls\u2019 mayor.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not enough for the Canada Border Services Agency to average daily wait times, when peak-flow slowdowns are the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe seem to have a staffing challenge, as a result we don\u2019t have enough booths open,\u201d said Jim Diodati, expanding on similar comments recently made to Postmedia Network. \u201cWe\u2019ve got significant and serious delays at the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delays during surges are not an excuse, said Diodati, who also says they may be related to rules requiring border officers to carry sidearms.<\/p>\n<p>He suggests that, in turn, has resulted in students not being able to fill positions as summer relief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Border delays into Canada \u2014 sometimes topping an hour \u2014 are unacceptable, says Niagara Falls\u2019 mayor. And it\u2019s not enough for the Canada Border Services Agency to average daily wait times, when peak-flow slowdowns are the issue. \u201cWe seem to have a staffing challenge, as a result we don\u2019t have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[382,2],"tags":[211,719,11054,603,3317,41,11059,11057,11061,11060,11058],"class_list":["post-17918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-border","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-border","tag-canada-border-services","tag-delays","tag-jim-diodati","tag-mayor","tag-niagara-falls","tag-officers","tag-postmedia-network","tag-problem","tag-staffing","tag-surges"],"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\/17918","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\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17919,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17918\/revisions\/17919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}