Jim Diodati still feels emergency hindered people from coming for eclipse
The Chair of the Niagara region says he and Niagara Falls mayor Jim Diodati agree declaring a state of emergency for the solar eclipse wasn't a mistake.
However, Diodati has alluded that the State of Emergency hindered in more people coming to Niagara.
Chair Jim Bradley says if he'd rather call it a declaration of pre-caution. "If I could use my own terminology, but you have to have it as a declaration of emergency. It had a minimal impact... but we would have been heavily criticized if some incident had happened if we didn't have all our staff and resources available."
He says the Niagara region still attracted roughly 250,000 for the eclipse, spread out around the area.
He also says he and the Niagara Falls mayor talked about the success of the day, despite the mayor's concerns about the State of Emergency. "Both Jim and I were on Fox News in the United States, we had national TV coverage here, provincial TV coverage, local TV, radio and newspapers. So, there was a lot of hype about it, and good news interviews."
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