{"id":7227,"date":"2009-09-03T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T13:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7227"},"modified":"2009-09-03T09:52:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T13:52:34","slug":"maid-of-the-mist-decision-facing-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/03\/maid-of-the-mist-decision-facing-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Maid of the Mist decision facing review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/maid-of-the-mist-decision-facing-review\/article1273601\/\">Globe and Mail<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Niagara Parks Commission, the secretive provincial agency that manages the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, has been ordered to review its decision to extend the Maid of the Mist&#8217;s monopoly on boat tours of the world-famous landmark.<\/p>\n<p>The Queen&#8217;s Park directive follows two government-ordered reviews of the agency launched in March after The Globe and Mail reported on complaints that the commission granted a 25-year lease extension to the U.S.-owned Maid of the Mist without inviting bids from would-be competitors. The commission meets in private and reports to the Ministry of Tourism.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reviews dealt with governance, and was conducted by an outside accounting firm, while the other was a government audit of the agency&#8217;s procurement and leasing activities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Globe and Mail: The Niagara Parks Commission, the secretive provincial agency that manages the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, has been ordered to review its decision to extend the Maid of the Mist&#8217;s monopoly on boat tours of the world-famous landmark. The Queen&#8217;s Park directive follows two government-ordered reviews of the agency launched&#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":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":[16,2,49],"tags":[510,1154,88,108,2004,99,255,2005,1149],"class_list":["post-7227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-lease","tag-maid-of-the-mist","tag-ministry-of-tourism","tag-monopoly","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-npc","tag-procurement","tag-queens-park"],"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\/7227","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=7227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7228,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions\/7228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}