{"id":3179,"date":"2008-07-05T10:46:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2008-07-05T10:46:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T14:46:13","slug":"npc-has-to-act-as-a-catalyst-for-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/05\/npc-has-to-act-as-a-catalyst-for-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"NPC has to act as a catalyst for tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We have long supported Kim Craitor’s bid to bring more openness and, it would follow, accountability to government and government agencies.<\/p>\n

We think the Niagara Falls MPP’s attempt to pass the Transparency in Public Matters Act as a private member’s bill is laudable and responsible, the type of good work we expect from our elected officials. We regret that it’s even necessary, but such is the way of today’s secretive political world…<\/p>\n

Take, for example, the recent tussle the Niagara Parks Commission had with Destination Cinema, owners of Imax Niagara Falls…<\/p>\n

As a public agency, the NPC does in fact have every ethical responsibility to nurture and develop and promote tourism in Niagara. And not just its own properties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Niagara Falls Review: We have long supported Kim Craitor’s bid to bring more openness and, it would follow, accountability to government and government agencies. We think the Niagara Falls MPP’s attempt to pass the Transparency in Public Matters Act as a private member’s bill is laudable and responsible, the type of good work…<\/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-3179","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\/3179","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=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}