{"id":2366,"date":"2010-01-13T07:11:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2010-01-13T08:16:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T12:16:10","slug":"toronto-bureaucrats-and-politicians-at-odds-over-pond-skating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/01\/13\/toronto-bureaucrats-and-politicians-at-odds-over-pond-skating\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto bureaucrats and politicians at odds over pond skating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s article at the <em>National Post<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/toronto\/archive\/2010\/01\/13\/city-parks-chief-wants-skating-on-ponds-no-matter-what-bureaucrats-say.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Kuitenbrouwer<\/a> finds that the new &#8220;no skating&#8221; policy was implemented without informing the elected politicians:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Toronto parks department bureaucrats permanently banned all skating on city ponds without consulting any elected city officials, Councillor Paula Fletcher, the parks chief, said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Fletcher (Toronto-Danforth) and the committee\u2019s vice-chair, Karen Stintz (Eglinton-Lawrence), believe the ban on pond skating is wrong, and plan to bring the topic to the Parks and Environment meeting at City Hall this morning. Ms. Fletcher suggested yesterday people should continue ignoring the signs, as long as they believe the ice is safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that there should be skating on ponds,\u201d Ms. Fletcher said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt certainly was not a public policy,\u201d she added, to ban skating on city ponds. The councillor said she was unaware of a document, \u201cActivities on Frozen Open Bodies of Water Policy,\u201d until I reported on it in the National Post yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen this is a public debate it should be a public document,\u201d added Ms. Fletcher.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s article at the National Post, Peter Kuitenbrouwer finds that the new &#8220;no skating&#8221; policy was implemented without informing the elected politicians: Toronto parks department bureaucrats permanently banned all skating on city ponds without consulting any elected city officials, Councillor Paula Fletcher, the parks chief, said yesterday. Ms. Fletcher (Toronto-Danforth) and the committee\u2019s vice-chair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[8,6,10],"tags":[322,207],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-cancon","category-liberty","tag-nannystate","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Ca","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}