{"id":10996,"date":"2018-03-08T08:33:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T13:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=10996"},"modified":"2018-03-08T00:44:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T05:44:59","slug":"mpp-yurek-introduces-the-mnrf-special-purpose-account-transparency-act-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/08\/mpp-yurek-introduces-the-mnrf-special-purpose-account-transparency-act-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"MPP Yurek introduces the MNRF Special Purpose Account Transparency Act, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Mar 8, 2018 @ 08:33<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>On March 6th, 2018, Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP Jeff Yurek introduced his Private Member\u2019s Bill, the <em>Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Special Purpose Account Transparency Act, 2018<\/em>. The proposed legislation is designed to strengthen spending requirements surrounding the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry\u2019s Special Purpose Account (SPA).<\/p>\n<p>The SPA was created in 1997, initiating license fees for angling and hunting in Ontario.\u00a0The SPA pools together all revenues from Fishing &amp; Hunting licensing fees and royalties, and is meant to be reinvested back into wildlife management to improve angling and hunting across the province. Unfortunately, the Wynne government uses this account as a personal slush fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of conservation, the Wynne government has turned hunting and fishing licenses in this province into a cash grab to pay for their own irresponsible spending,\u201d said Yurek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy bill will provide transparency and clarification on how these services fees are actually being spent, and will work towards reversing the years of disrespect towards Ontario\u2019s hunters and anglers perpetuated by this government.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 8, 2018 @ 08:33 On March 6th, 2018, Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP Jeff Yurek introduced his Private Member\u2019s Bill, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Special Purpose Account Transparency Act, 2018. The proposed legislation is designed to strengthen spending requirements surrounding the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry\u2019s Special Purpose Account (SPA). The SPA was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 14:07:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10997,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996\/revisions\/10997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}