{"id":7819,"date":"2009-12-14T10:59:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T15:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7819"},"modified":"2009-12-14T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T15:59:04","slug":"williams-goes-out-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/14\/williams-goes-out-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams goes out fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2220162\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The way Ontario Tourism Minister Monique Smith wants to tender the right to run boat tours on the Niagara River will harm the Niagara Parks Commission, Niagara Falls&#8217; tourism industry and tourism provincewide, says former Niagara Parks Commission chairman Jim Williams.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not going quietly after resigning his $250-a-day government- appointed job Thursday over a dispute with Smith, the cabinet minister responsible for the parks commission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If she&#8217;s willing to jeopardize the parks in this cavalier a fashion, I don&#8217;t want any part of the organization. This is a bad decision by the government and this minister,&#8221; Williams told The Review Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The way Ontario Tourism Minister Monique Smith wants to tender the right to run boat tours on the Niagara River will harm the Niagara Parks Commission, Niagara Falls&#8217; tourism industry and tourism provincewide, says former Niagara Parks Commission chairman Jim Williams. He&#8217;s not going quietly after resigning his $250-a-day government-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":[2],"tags":[2575,2653,147,88,1001,467,180,99,1100,468],"class_list":["post-7819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-boat-tours","tag-commission-chairman","tag-jim-williams","tag-maid-of-the-mist","tag-maid-of-the-mist-steamboat-co","tag-monique-smith","tag-niagara-falls-tourism","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-ontario-tourism","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\/7819","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=7819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}