{"id":121,"date":"2007-06-27T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2007-06-27T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T18:03:00","slug":"ontario-ombudsman-government-%e2%80%9cpuffery%e2%80%9d-undermines-public-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/ontario-ombudsman-government-%e2%80%9cpuffery%e2%80%9d-undermines-public-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Ombudsman: Government \u201cpuffery\u201d undermines public trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A huge thank you to Ontario Ombudsman Andr\u00e9 Marin for saying publicly (and for getting the media to publish) what I and others have been trying to say for years.<br \/><span class=\"fullpost\"><br \/>This Ontario government simply does not appear to believe that it has any responsibility, whatsoever, to its taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>Marin, in his second annual report, describes the Ontario Liberal government as being rife with &#8220;puffery&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I could not have described it better.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070627.wombudsman0627\/BNStory\/National\/\" target=\"_blank\">Globe and Mail story<\/a> for more details or visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ombudsman.on.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ombudsman&#8217;s website<\/a> to read the entire report.<\/p>\n<p>I will be reviewing it and reporting back to you.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge thank you to Ontario Ombudsman Andr\u00e9 Marin for saying publicly (and for getting the media to publish) what I and others have been trying to say for years.This Ontario government simply does not appear to believe that it has any responsibility, whatsoever, to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}