{"id":9338,"date":"2010-12-02T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9338"},"modified":"2010-12-02T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T15:00:14","slug":"booker-rattled-by-attack-on-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/02\/booker-rattled-by-attack-on-credibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker &#8216;rattled&#8217; by attack on credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2871957\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fay Booker says she&#8217;s &#8220;rattled&#8221; and disturbed by what she calls attempts to undermine her credibility as chairwoman of the Niagara Parks Commission at a time Ontario&#8217;s Liberal government is looking to her to fix historic problems and lead the agency in a new direction.<\/p>\n<p>She tackled head-on an anonymous e-mail sent to The Review suggesting she helped a friend get a contract as project manager with the commission, helped her former accounting firm secure a contract as its auditor and doubled the pay commissioners get.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never had my credibility undermined like this,&#8221; she said Wednesday. She is in Calgary on a teaching contract. She didn&#8217;t have time to cancel before Tourism Minister Michael Chan shook up the parks commission Monday by turfing one-third of its members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I&#8217;ve come to realize is we&#8217;ve got to resolve the past before we can address the future,&#8221; Booker said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Fay Booker says she&#8217;s &#8220;rattled&#8221; and disturbed by what she calls attempts to undermine her credibility as chairwoman of the Niagara Parks Commission at a time Ontario&#8217;s Liberal government is looking to her to fix historic problems and lead the agency in a new direction. She tackled head-on an anonymous&#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":[4801,3308,4802,3068,1200,3070,99,255,468],"class_list":["post-9338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-accounting-firm","tag-chairwoman","tag-credibility","tag-fay-booker","tag-liberal-government","tag-michael-chan","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\/9338","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=9338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}