{"id":964,"date":"2014-06-30T07:47:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T15:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/?p=964"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:38:29","slug":"re-article-alberta-lights-family-fireworks-industrys-fuse-june-27-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/re-article-alberta-lights-family-fireworks-industrys-fuse-june-27-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Article &#8220;Alberta lights family fireworks industry&#8217;s fuse&#8221; &#8211; June 27, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Re: Article \u201cAlberta lights family fireworks industry\u2019s fuse\u201d \u2013 June 27, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article by John Cotter contains inaccurate information that should be corrected for the safety of consumers.<br \/>\nBottle rockets are not a legal product in Canada and therefore are not available through retailers. Anyone selling or purchasing bottle rockets is committing an illegal offence.<br \/>\nFirecrackers are sold only to those with written permission from the Ministry of Natural Resources \u2013 Explosives Regulatory Division, or as part of a professional fireworks display.<br \/>\nFireworks are put through rigorous testing by the federal government prior to being approved for safe use. When used according to guidelines, they will not explode when being lit.<br \/>\nThere is no need to over-regulate fireworks. A little bit of common sense is all that is needed to be able to continue this exciting tradition that Canadians have enjoyed for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Dominique Allen<br \/>\nExecutive Director<br \/>\n1-855-652-CNFA (2632)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>For the pdf version &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/?p=967\">Click Here!<\/a><\/h2>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re: Article \u201cAlberta lights family fireworks industry\u2019s fuse\u201d \u2013 June 27, 2014 The article by John Cotter contains inaccurate information that should be corrected for the safety of consumers. Bottle rockets are not a legal product in Canada and therefore are not available through retailers. Anyone selling or purchasing bottle rockets is committing an illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}