{"id":9261,"date":"2010-11-12T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9261"},"modified":"2010-11-12T10:54:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T15:54:23","slug":"justify-sole-source-contract-mpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/12\/justify-sole-source-contract-mpp\/","title":{"rendered":"Justify sole-source contract: MPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2842687\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whatever information Niagara&#8217;s regional tourism organization used to justify an &#8220;exception&#8221; from the province&#8217;s ban on single-source contracts, it should be disclosed to the public to ensure public confidence in the agency, Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that the chairman of the board should explain to the media or to the public what they presented to the bureaucrats that convinced them this should be an exception,&#8221; Craitor said Th ursday.<\/p>\n<p>The first project by Niagara&#8217;s regional tourism organization &#8212; a body created last year by Ontario&#8217;s Liberal government to promote tourism &#8212; led to a controversy after it was revealed it commissioned Niagara Fallsbased Rev Publishing to produce a glossy $500,000 tourism magazine without putting it out to tender.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not a good way for it to start out,&#8221; said Craitor, who is also parliamentary assistant to Ontario Tourism Minister Michael Chan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Whatever information Niagara&#8217;s regional tourism organization used to justify an &#8220;exception&#8221; from the province&#8217;s ban on single-source contracts, it should be disclosed to the public to ensure public confidence in the agency, Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor says. &#8220;I think that the chairman of the board should explain to the&#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":[2,49],"tags":[4694,4697,4698,3828,676,2174,1200,3070,2852,41,652,1100,3679,4696,3638,4683,4684,4693,4695,468,3637],"class_list":["post-9261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-bureaucrats","tag-chairman-of-the-board","tag-controversy","tag-government","tag-kim-craitor","tag-liberal","tag-liberal-government","tag-michael-chan","tag-mpp","tag-niagara-falls","tag-ontario","tag-ontario-tourism","tag-parliamentary-assistant","tag-public-confidence","tag-regional-tourism","tag-regional-tourism-organization","tag-rev-publishing","tag-single-source-contract","tag-tourism-magazine","tag-tourism-minister","tag-tourism-organization"],"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\/9261","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=9261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9262,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261\/revisions\/9262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}