{"id":953812,"date":"2026-11-01T01:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953812\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T01:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T01:54:09","slug":"government-looking-for-public-input-on-red-tape-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953812\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Looking for Public Input on Red Tape Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/lloyd-parrott-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Government Looking for Public Input on Red Tape Reduction\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Government says it\u2019s looking for input on how to reduce red tape.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Lloyd Parrott, whose portfolio was recently expanded to include red tape reduction, is hoping to find ways to help people and businesses cut through government bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>Parrott says the office recently created is looking for different perspectives on ways to cut it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s mine or whether it\u2019s a smaller store selling clothing, everyone deals with different things. So, we need to understand what all of that looks like and find a way to streamline it, so it works for all Newfoundlanders and Labradorians,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s going to require an urban lens that allows us to do business perhaps differently outside of the more populated areas too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People can have their say by emailing redtapereduction@gov.nl.ca or online through EngageNL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Government says it\u2019s looking for input on how to reduce red tape. Minister Lloyd Parrott, whose portfolio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-953812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}