{"id":39205,"date":"2015-01-21T01:10:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=39205"},"modified":"2015-01-21T01:10:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:10:14","slug":"most-atlantic-provinces-fare-poorly-in-red-tape-report-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/21\/most-atlantic-provinces-fare-poorly-in-red-tape-report-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Atlantic provinces fare poorly in red tape report card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_1486574.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39301\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_1486574.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_1486574\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_1486574.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_1486574-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HALIFAX &#8212; The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has handed out poor grades to three Atlantic provinces for the way they deal with red tape.<\/p>\n<p>The federation&#8217;s latest red-tape report card gave Newfoundland and Labrador a grade of C, Prince Edward Island received a D, and Nova Scotia was handed a D+.<\/p>\n<p>The federation says New Brunswick escaped scrutiny because it&#8217;s too soon to evaluate the province&#8217;s new Liberal government.<\/p>\n<p>The premiers of all four provinces met Monday in St. John&#8217;s, N.L., where they agreed to do more to streamline government regulations.<\/p>\n<p>As well, the Newfoundland and Labrador government issued a statement saying the federation did not offer a rationale for its grade even though the group acknowledged the province&#8217;s recent regulatory reforms were an &#8220;important step in the right direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX &#8212; The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has handed out poor grades to three Atlantic provinces for the way &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":39301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}