{"id":8705,"date":"2010-06-23T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T15:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8705"},"modified":"2010-06-23T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T13:53:07","slug":"falls-will-feel-hst-pinch-pc-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/falls-will-feel-hst-pinch-pc-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"Falls will feel HST pinch: PC critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news\/news\/article\/837300\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dalton McGuinty will have his hands in honeymooners\u2019 pockets with the introduction of the harmonized sales tax, according to the Progressive Conservative party\u2019s tourism critic.<br \/>\nTed Arnott, MPP for Wellington-Halton Hills, was in Niagara Falls Tuesday to talk tourism. Speaking to a group of residents and tourists at the bottom of Clifton Hill, he outlined some possible effects the new Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) could have on tourism in the honeymoon capital.<br \/>\n\u201cIt (the HST) is going to impact negatively on tourism,\u201d said Arnott.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: Dalton McGuinty will have his hands in honeymooners\u2019 pockets with the introduction of the harmonized sales tax, according to the Progressive Conservative party\u2019s tourism critic. Ted Arnott, MPP for Wellington-Halton Hills, was in Niagara Falls Tuesday to talk tourism. Speaking to a group of residents and tourists at the bottom of&#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_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":[2,49],"tags":[59,1111,3870,3871,2174,3869,3414,418,3868],"class_list":["post-8705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-clifton-hill","tag-dalton-mcguinty","tag-harmonized-sales-tax","tag-hst","tag-liberal","tag-progressive-conservative","tag-ted-arnott","tag-tourism","tag-wellington-halton-hills"],"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\/8705","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=8705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}