Sentences with phrase «conservative election promise»

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In first promise of the official 2015 federal election campaign, Stephen Harper said the Conservatives would increase the apprenticeship job creation tax credit to $ 2,500 from $ 2,000 and expand the program to include a third and fourth year of training.

Because CBSA is not letting importers qualify for the tariff exemption, consumers will pay higher prices for imported electronic goods − exactly what the Conservatives promised to avoid during the 2011 election campaign.

The Conservatives dangled several pricey promises during the 2011 election campaign that were contingent on them balancing the books, including tax - splitting for couples with children under 18, doubling the annual tax - free savings account limit and doubling the children's tax credit.

This Sunday marks the fourth anniversary of Stephen Harper's election promise that a Conservative government would «never go back into deficit.»

Not running a deficit under any circumstances was the position that the Conservatives had run on in the 2008 election, and the other parties had made similar promises.

Seventeen days later, by then in an election campaign, the Conservatives promised to return to balance in 2014 - 2015.

Before the election, the Federal Conservatives promised only to start collecting such information starting in 2016.

The Prime Minister thought everything was going as planned, when he announced last October, several measures promised in the 2011 Conservative election platform.

The Conservatives attempted to fulfill a major 2011 election promise to introduce income splitting but tweaked it just a bit by introducing a cap of $ 2000 a family.

During the 2006 election campaign the Conservative party had promised to cut the GST by two points.

In the 2006 election campaign, the Conservative Party promised an independent office, reporting to Parliament with virtually full access to all relevant information.

In the last election, the Conservative promised additional tax expenditure, amounting to $ 3 billion a year, once the budget is balanced.

During the 2006 election, the Conservative Party promised greater transparency and accountability in budget planning.

Including Mr. Harper's vow in 2008 that a government led by him would «never» go into deficit, this is the second time in three years that the Conservatives have made a balanced - budget promise during an election campaign only to abandon it after being reelected.

In the 2006 election campaign, the Conservatives promised an independent office, reporting to Parliament with virtually full access to all relevant information.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

The Conservatives have yet to release a detailed costing of their election promises.

It is a far cry from what the Conservatives promised in their 2006 election campaign and in its rhetoric in establishing the Office once in power.

Wynne's recent election win spared Ontario from the 100,000 public service job cuts promised by her Conservative opponent Tim Hudak.

By comparison, in the dying days of the fall election campaign then Conservative Leader Stephen Harper promised to extend an existing auto industry fund by $ 1 billion over 10 years, starting in 2017/18, with some of the money coming out as grants.

Unfortunately for them, the Conservatives did not promise them anything during the 2011 election campaign.

Political parties failed to form a coalition government after May 6 elections, triggering another contest between the pro-bailout New Democracy conservatives and left - wing Syriza party that has promised to cancel the terms of the country's rescue loan agreements.

These two elections have shattered the myth cultivated by conservative politicians, newspaper columnists, think tanks and lobby groups for decades that promising to increase taxes is political kryptonite.

What if the Progressive Conservatives win the upcoming election in Ontario (or the one after that) and ultimately keep their campaign promise to repeal the provincial Liberals» cap - and - trade regime and reject a pan-Canadian carbon price?

Mr Shuker also said the Conservatives had failed to clear the deficit by the next general election like they promised to.

Wills began this book in the wake of the Republican triumph in the congressional elections of 1994, in which conservatives apparently rode to power on a wave of antigovernment sentiment, sentiment they promised to honor by taking out a contract on the national state which they labeled a Contract with America.

In the 2010 election manifestos, the Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Conservatives each promised to legislate and the coalition agreement included it as a firm proposal.

Cameron promised in his Bloomberg speech in Europe to hold an in - out referendum on Britain's future in the EU during the next parliament if the Conservatives win the next general election.

When Labour chose to accept the targets in 1997, incumbent Conservatives aimed (much less successfully in that case) to challenge Labour to identify what extra cuts or tax rises they would impose to meet their election promises to specific groups unsuccessfully.

The Conservatives have fired the first shots in the campaign for next year's local elections by promising to protect England's gardens from being concreted over.

Cameron's referendum promise may well not prevent the Conservatives from breaking up, but, if Labour wins the next election, the Tories will probably campaign for a «no» vote anyway.

He succeeded Independent MP Martin Bell, who had defeated the controversial former Conservative minister Neil Hamilton in 1997 but had kept his promise not to stand there at the following election.

The Conservative manifesto for the 2015 general election contained a promise not to raise income tax, VAT, or national insurance for the duration of the parliament.

The Conservative candidate for Richmond says he would force a by - election if his campaign promises are not fulfilled.

The Conservatives are unlikely to promise tax cuts at the next general election, the shadow chancellor has confirmed.

And now, in the run up to the 2015 British election, the Conservative party has made holding a referendum on EU membership a central campaign promise.

We were promised by all three party leaders in the last Parliament that we would have a referendum on Europe: the Conservatives went into the last election talking about a referendum lock.

During the 2017 UK general election campaign Liar Liar GE2017, a song by the reggae band Captain SKA, which criticised unfulfilled Conservative party campaign promises from previous elections, was banned by all major British broadcasters.

Reacting to the report today, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) accused the government of initiating a privatisation agenda when it spoecifically promised not to do so in its election manifesto - a point made also by the Conservatives.

The Conservatives are looking to find ways of cutting back on the number of promises they make to voters before the 2015 general election, it has emerged.

Conservative right - wingers challenged David Cameron today, insisting he must promise to cut taxes at the next election.

The promise of a clean campaign was slightly marred by the first Conservative election poster which promised voters «an MP you can trust» - a clear dig at Huhne.

The Liberal Democrats, Mr Huhne's party, went into the election promising not to build new nuclear power stations, whereas the Conservatives favoured replacing ageing stations.

Priebus and pugnacious chief presidential strategist Steve Bannon took their strained buddy routine to the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday, reminiscing about Trump's election victory, promising revolutionary change in Washington, denying their ongoing West Wing power struggle and — naturally — bashing the news media.

The Lib Dem election campaign focused on the likelihood of there being a hung parliament and sold the party as the best option as a coalition partner for either Labour or the Conservatives, promising to stop each party lurching off to the left or the right.

As part of their manifesto at the 2015 general election, the Conservative Party promised to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and replace it with a «British Bill of Rights».

Labour is promising to put 10,000 more police on the streets of England and Wales if it wins the election, to be paid for by reversing Conservative plans in the 2016 Budget for capital gains tax cuts.

«As promised, House Minority Leader John Boehner, along with Reps. Aaron Schock (R - IL) and Peter Roskam (R - IL), huddled this morning with representatives of the most powerful conservative business and trade groups in the country to field policy ideas and build a legislative agenda ahead of the November elections, when Republicans could retake the House.

Jeremy Corbyn hit back at Tony Blair after the former Labour prime minister advised voters to consider backing Conservative or Liberal Democrat candidates in June's general election, if they promise to have an open mind about the terms of the final Brexit deal.

«These are promises that were made in respect of a peerage that was given, and now tax has not been paid and instead it's been given to the Conservative party for the general election fund.»