Sentences with phrase «british system of government»

Among her other writings were Privy Council, Cabinet, and Ministry in Britain and Canada: A Story of Confusion, Attitudes in the Philadelphia Convention towards the British System of Government, Constitutional law — citing Canada's Constitution — problems and proposed solutions; If the queen were to abdicate: procedure under Canada's constitution; Ontario's courts, 1867 - 1987: conflicts and confusion; Parliament, the Executive and the Governor - General; Parliamentary privilege in Canada; Robert's Rules of Order: editions, reprints, and competitors; The Canada Act 1982 — some facts and comments; The Judiciary in Canada: the Third Branch of Government, and Defining Constitution of the Province — The Crux of the Manitoba Language Controversy.

The review also called for more emphasis on Australia's Judeo - Christian heritage, the role of Western civilisation in contributing to Australian society, and the influence of the country's British system of government.

But Conservative leader David Cameron told MPs: «The British system of government needs real and lasting change.»

Not exact matches

The current round of hand - wringing over pensions got its start in late 2007, when the British Columbia and Alberta governments appointed the Joint Expert Panel on Pension Standards to examine the existing retirement system.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade is concerned that the announcement by the B.C. government of a further regulatory process around spill response may send a chilling signal about British Columbia's openness for business, attractiveness for foreign investment, and predictability or reliability of our environmental regulatory system.

The British government, which is currently alternating between panicking over Brexit and not preparing for Brexit, originally planned to have to have its very prim and respectable new system for preventing people under the age of 18 from looking at naked people on the internet operating by April 2018.

«British Columbians deserve to have a government that is an ardent defender of a robust public health care system, but the Liberals utterly failed.»

What we have had in British political life under British common law is a procrustean class system, one of the most fixed in the world, confirming aristocratic and plutocratic class rule, rigidly preventing the overwhelming numbers of the lower class from gaining equality, representation in government, decent working conditions, the right to union organization, suffrage, and acceptable living standards until the end of the nineteenth century.

No one can possibly understand the American Revolution — more properly described as the American secession from the British Empire — without grasping its theoretical dimensions, beginning with the claims of the Declaration of Independence endorsing popular sovereignty and the ability of the people to «alter and abolish» existing systems of government whenever that would be thought conducive to public happiness.

Employers responded to the government's consultation on changes to skilled labour migration (Tiers 1 and 2 of the Points - Based System) with vigorous arguments for the economic necessity of IntraCompany Transfers (ICTs)-- individuals relocated by their employers from overseas branches to British branches of the same company.

When the British Columbia considered the question of whether to reform its electoral system from majority rule election of legislators to some form of proportional representation, the Government of British Columbia created a body called the British Columbia Citizen's Assembly, composed of citizens from throughout the province.

Although it should be noted New York abandoned this system in 2002, and the indirectly - elected British government would probably be wary of endowing the Speaker with such a powerful popular mandate.

Otto Thoresen, Association of British Insurers director general, welcomes government ban on referral fees to tackle «dysfunctional compensation system»:

The Foreign Office is unlikely to accept the proposal for a trial in Russia on the grounds that the British government does not respect the independence of the Russian judicial system, however.

«As our nation goes forward in its own healthcare reform debate, the failures of the British system should have Americans asking some very important questions, such as: who should make medical decisions - me and my doctor or a government board?»

In British politics, the Shadow Home Secretary is the person within the shadow cabinet who «shadows» the Home Secretary; this effectively means scrutinising government policy on home affairs including policing, national security, immigration, the criminal justice system, the prison service, and matters of citizenship.

The commission was set up in December 1997 by the Labour government with the support of the Liberal Democrats, to investigate alternatives to the single member plurality (or «first past the post») electoral system used for British general elections.

However, his retirement lasted just over a year before he stated his intent to come back and make a film on the British welfare system and the Tory government's barbaric treatment of the most vulnerable people in society.

STEM is at the forefront of educational systems globally, and a learning priority of the British Government, and yet when asked if they knew what the acronym stood for, 60 % of parents drew a blank.

He gained support from the British public and his efforts were recognised when the government committed # 500 million to the school food system as well as placing a ban on processed junk food in all UK schools in the autumn of 2006.

Following an initial study, the British government decided to adopt smart meters as part of their plan to update the ageing energy system.

India has a British - style parliamentary system in which the leader of the political party with the highest share of the vote in the lower house of parliament is appointed as prime minister by the president (the President of India is a mostly ceremonial role; the prime minister is the head of government).

In an elaborate scheme, fraudsters calling themselves «education agents» managed to abuse the British government's student loan system at the Greenwich School of Management and Plymouth University.The Greenwich School of Management (GSM) in London offers a wide -LSB-...]

UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced upcoming changes in student loan policies just a day before the Conservative Party Congress, and Nicky Morgan, chairwoman of the British Treasury Committee, confirmed that the government would review the student loan system and its impact on tuition fees and public finances.

British Honduras was declared a British Colony in 1871 and the Crown Colony System of Government was implemented.

TUE APR 17 7PM HAMMER SCREENINGS SCREAMERS The documentary Screamers chronicles Grammy Award - winning rock band System of a Down's efforts to persuade both the British and U.S. governments to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

«Investment markets are competitive, and the absence of a clear signal from the BC Government to seek more wind energy in its electricity system means that wind energy investors will soon shift resources to more promising markets — representing a significant lost opportunity for British Columbia,» he says.

Canada follows the British parliamentary system, where the government must have the confidence of the majority of House of Commons.

My bet is that in 20 years, British Columbians will be very happy that Site C was built, in the same way most of us are very happy previous B.C. governments built the B.C. Ferry system, the WAC Bennett dam, Expo 86, the Coquihalla and other B.C. highways, the 2010 Winter Olympics, the new Port Mann Bridge, the Golden Ears Bridge and other controversial (and expensive) projects.

Great care must therefore be taken to consider each decision in the light of the circumstances of the case in view of which it was pronounced, especially in the interpretation of an Act such as the British North America Act, which was a great constitutional charter, and not to allow general phrases to obscure the underlying object of the Act, which was to establish a system of government upon essentially federal principles.

While the question process can first appear to be quite simple, the expert system tool shows a high degree of autonomy and will steer a client through certain bespoke branches of questions until it has got all the answers it needs to provide the client with a provisional statement in relation to the Modern Slavery Act, which the British Government made law in part to prevent companies exploiting forced labour, often via foreign suppliers.

As the new government of British Columbia begins its work, a broad coalition of legal organizations has come together to call for significant reform of BC's justice system.

Significant matters / transactions include: Advised Xstrata South Africa (Proprietary) Limited on its offer to purchase Lonmin plc's entire issued share capital, # 5 billion Advised Telkom SA Limited on its unbundling of a 35 % stake in Vodacom Group (Proprietary) Limited, R35 billion Advised Edgars Consolidated Stores Limited on its acquisition by Bain Capital, R25, 5 billion Advised The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) on the introduction of BEE equity participation in Sasol Limited and their arranging financing therefore, R25, 4 billion Advised FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Nedbank Limited (acting through its Nedbank Capital division) as lenders to Richards Bay Titanium (Proprietary) Limited and Richards Bay Mining (Proprietary) Limited, R19 billion Advised Citibank N.A. on a bridge loan granted to Turquoise Moon Trading 427 (Proprietary) Limited by Citibank N.A. and JP Morgan Chase, R10 billion Advised British American Tobacco plc on its secondary listing on the JSE, R550 billion Advised Pioneer Foods Limited on its listing on the JSE Securities Exchange, R6 billion Advised the South African National Roads Agency Limited in respect of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project involving the construction and upgrade of the Gauteng freeway and the procurement of an open road tolling system, R44 billion Advised Absa Bank Limited (acting though its Absa Capital division), FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Vunani Capital (as co-lead arrangers) and the South Africa National Roads Agency Limited (as issuer) on the establishment of its South African Guaranteed Domestic Medium Term Note Programme and the subsequent issue of notes thereunder, R32 billion Advised Shoprite Checkers (Proprietary) Limited on the proposed Brait Private Equity private equity buy - out (this did not proceed), R12 billion Advised Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited and various shareholders on the acquisition by Capitalworks Private Equity SP GP (Proprietary) Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company South Africa Limited of a 20 % equity stake in Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited from various shareholders, R511 million Clients include: Multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and Government

The Liberal government is aware that referendums to change our type of voting system have been recently lost in the United Kingdom, Ontario, and British Columbia.

As the story goes, these parties had a falling out and as a result decided that since neither side was likely to receive a «fair» hearing and decision under the Russian justice system, and since billions of US dollars, etc. were brought to Britain, why not use the British legal system (which UK government has been promoting for years for these kinds of disputes).

The forms that ownership takes in Australia include the recognition of native title rights (pre-existing rights to land that pre date British settlement), federal, state and territory Indigenous land rights legislation (which provide for grants of land from the government), national parks legislation, reserve systems or the purchase of land by the Indigenous Land Corporation and Land Councils.