{"id":1974,"date":"2007-08-20T21:11:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T01:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/08\/20\/city-convention-centre-a-natural-finance-minister\/"},"modified":"2007-08-20T21:11:21","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T01:11:21","slug":"city-convention-centre-a-natural-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/20\/city-convention-centre-a-natural-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"City convention centre &#8216;a natural:&#8217; Finance minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?952\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A convention centre in Niagara Falls is a &#8220;meritorious&#8221; idea to boost tourism but shouldn&#8217;t leave taxpayers on the hook for unexpected costs, says federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t need any white elephants that taxpayers end up having to foot the bill for in the long term,&#8221; Flaherty told reporters before a reception in Niagara-on-the-Lake Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>While he wouldn&#8217;t predict when federal officials might announce funding for a convention centre, Flaherty sent a strong signal he understands the project&#8217;s importance for Niagara.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A convention centre in Niagara Falls is a &#8220;meritorious&#8221; idea to boost tourism but shouldn&#8217;t leave taxpayers on the hook for unexpected costs, says federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. &#8220;We don&#8217;t need any white elephants that taxpayers end up having to foot the bill for in the long term,&#8221; Flaherty&#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-1974","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\/1974","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=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}