{"id":7719,"date":"2009-11-26T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7719"},"modified":"2009-11-26T07:10:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T12:10:08","slug":"no-shakeup-at-the-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/26\/no-shakeup-at-the-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"No shakeup at the Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2193568\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are no plans to shake up the Niagara Parks Commission, Tourism Minister Monique Smith says.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview Tuesday, she brushed off a Conservative critic&#8217;s claim that replacing the whole board is the only way to restore public confidence in the government agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no intention of replacing the board,&#8221; Smith said about how the Liberal government is responding to 11 pages of recommendations in a report she requested looking into how the parks commission is run.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara Parks Commission Governance Review called for &#8220;fundamental changes&#8221; in who is appointed to the parks commission and the process for appointing them.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, however, was not specific about how the Liberal government will handle that recommendation or when.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll be working with the commission to determine the implementation,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: There are no plans to shake up the Niagara Parks Commission, Tourism Minister Monique Smith says. In an interview Tuesday, she brushed off a Conservative critic&#8217;s claim that replacing the whole board is the only way to restore public confidence in the government agency. &#8220;We have no intention of replacing&#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":[2],"tags":[2542,2541,1200,467,99,255,468],"class_list":["post-7719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-governance","tag-government-agency","tag-liberal-government","tag-monique-smith","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-npc","tag-tourism-minister"],"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\/7719","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=7719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}