Sentences with phrase «conservative government plans»

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government plans on entering an election next year with a budget surplus.

I would like to know how a Conservative government plans to reach our targets.

Liz Kendall has said that welfare reform is necessary but refused to state whether she supported the recently announced Conservative government plan to cut # 3bn of welfare spending.

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Several different CPP expansion plans were developed by policy experts, but in December 2013 the Conservative government shut down any further discussion of expansion.

The Conservative government favoured PRPPs over more intrusive proposals for reform, such as expanding the Canada Pension Plan.

Earlier this year, May's government was forced into a U-turn when it dropped a plan to increase national insurance contributions on self - employed workers after Conservative lawmakers protested that it broke the 2015 pledge.

Yves Robins, a senior vice president with Dassault, the French aircraft - maker, said the Conservative government's recent overhaul of the military procurement system means federal officials would be hard - pressed to explain a return to the F - 35 sole - source plan.

While some observers see the plan as yet another way in which the provinces are pressuring the federal government to expand CPP, Ontario's opposition Progressive Conservatives have already condemned the program as a «job - killing payroll tax.»

It allowed her to woo NDP supporters who feared a slash - and - burn Tory government, while also exploiting the Conservative plan to cut 100,000 public sector jobs to balance the budget as an economic apocalypse only she could stop.

Gerard Lyons — one of the few prominent economists to back leaving the EU, and a co-founder of the Economists for Brexit group — told an audience at the Brexit & Global Expansion Summit in London on Monday that by failing to prepare plans for what might happen in the event that Britain voted to leave, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne left both the new Conservative government and the British people high and dry.

Be it the Conservatives» call to cut $ 11 billion in government expenditures or the Liberals» plan to raise corporate taxes by 1.5 percentage points back to 2010 levels, these are issues of substance.

Less information is now provided to the public in budgets than under previous Liberal and Conservative governments; the authority of Parliament over government spending has been weakened; the understanding of Canadians as to what the government is actually planning to do in the budget has been eroded.

Initially sold as a bonus to Canadians for balancing the federal budget, the Conservative Party is now touting the benefit cheques as tonic for a suddenly sputtering economy and as a job - creation plan The government is now touting their recently enhanced universal child - care benefit as tonic for a faltering economy and as a job - creation plan.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

Province demands Conservative government drop opposition to creation of Ontario Retirement Pension Plan

Mr. Speaker, while other partner countries in the joint strike fighter project are hitting the brakes because of costs rising from $ 50 million to $ 92 million per plane, the Conservative government is going full throttle and is planning to stick Canadians with the bill.

On access to information requests by me, they uncovered a truth from the secretive Conservative government: a plan written by DND called for a competitive process that would run in 2010.

So, Mr. Kenney, who just this week was appointed to the parliamentary committee studying electoral reform, could be abandoning plans to replace Rona Ambrose as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and setting his sights on uniting - the - right and challenging Rachel Notley «s moderate New Democratic Party government in 2019.

The report claims the emissions cap included in Alberta government's climate change plan will cost Canada's oil sands industry $ 250 billion and is the latest in a concerted effort by conservative opponents of the NDP to undermine its flagship policy.

The NDP have put forward the most comprehensive plan to fight Climate Change that Alberta has ever seen, something that the Progressive Conservatives were unable to do in the final decade of their 44 years in government and the Wildrose Party has been unable to do in its four years as official opposition.

A Christian Conservative MP has urged the government to reconsider its plans to cut disability benefits... More

A Christian Conservative MP who defied the government over its plans to relax Sunday trading laws has... More

New relationships lessons planned by the Government may «stigmatise» traditional marriage, two leading conservative Christian figures have warned.

A growing coalition of conservative political leaders, religious groups and government officials is leading the attack against publicly supported programs of sex education, school - based health centers, guidance programs in family planning, and other activities designed to address the sexual needs of youth from both a social and a health perspective.

Conservative MP Nadine Dorries became the latest government backbencher to question David Cameron's social housing plans yesterday.

George Osborne has already indicated that a future Conservative government would seek to remove housing benefit for the under - 25s, hinting at a long - term, transformative plan to reduce state welfare to a bare minimum, well below the standards recommended by Beveridge.

The exchanges were dominated by Ed Miliband's suggestions that the Conservatives» general election adviser Lynton Crosby, a tobacco lobbyist, had influenced the government's decision to drop its plans to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes.

The Conservative plans are predicated on # 5 billion of largely unspecified anti-avoidance measures, # 10 billion unspecified cuts to benefits and # 30 billion cuts to unprotected government departments, which were not mentioned in their manifesto.

Senior officers have also leapt on the riots to launch an attack on government plans to cut police budgets — an attack backed by Conservative London mayor Boris Johnson and Labour.

«The result not only signals that the Liberal Democrats are back in the political big time and the return to three party politics, it is a clear rejection of the Conservative Brexit government's plan to take Britain out of the Single Market,» he said.

Last night, 48 Labour MPs defied interim leader Harriet Harman's call to abstain on the Conservatives» welfare plans and voted against the Government.

The introduction of metro mayors, on the other hand, was part of the Conservative Party manifesto ahead of the 2015 general election, and part of their wider plan to devolve more powers from national government to city regions.

«If the government's proposed planning and housing bill follows the pre-election Conservative proposals, we are in for massive and far - reaching changes to how development is carried out.

For example, the fiscal squeeze that began with the «Geddes Axe» under the UK's last Liberal - Conservative coalition in 1921 - 2 (and implemented in the following three years under three different governments) was also based on spending cuts alone, and went far deeper even than the plans announced by George Osborne.

Public servants are being offered below - inflation pay rises because the government failed to plan for the economic downturn, the Conservatives claimed today.

Whether it's his staunch support of the Second Amendment, his understanding that government spending must be reined in or his plans to repair the damage done during President Obama's tenure, John Faso will fight for conservative values and change the status quo in Washington,» said Ed Magilton, Chair of the Sullivan County Conservconservative values and change the status quo in Washington,» said Ed Magilton, Chair of the Sullivan County ConservativeConservative Party.

A fiscally conservative good - government group last week credited Republican Hempstead Town Supervisor Anthony Santino for offering some «common sense proposals» to combat conflicts of interests and nepotism as part of a plan to update the town's ethics code.

The Conservatives announced plans — the extension of an existing programme — to boost the «right to buy» council house scheme introduced under Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s.

This election is about choosing the government of our country for the next five years, and the choice could not be starker between a Conservative government led by me, continuing with a plan that's working, and putting it all at risk.»

The Osborne plan (and the Coalition Agreement) called on Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers to achieve a cyclically - adjusted target to reduce government debt as a share of national income between 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16 and, politically and economically most significant, to do so by achieving a budget balance by the end of the Parliament.

The government has watered down its plan to put forward a bill on replacing the Human Rights Act with a British bill of rights, bowing to reported disquiet among senior Conservative backbenchers.

The political implications are clear: a shift by Labour to policies that motivate the overwhelming majority of the population threatened by the Tories» planned harsh economic policies could prevent a Conservative government.

«It's a damning indictment of this government that, half way through this parliament, a former Conservative Cabinet minister is still calling for a plan for growth,» shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves said.

Conservatives say there's enough Republican opposition to scuttle a plan by House GOP leaders to prevent a government shutdown this weekend.

Conservative MP David Davies says plans by the UK government to allow same sex marriages are politically «barking mad».

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced today that plans to reform the House of Lords will be abandoned after the Conservatives had «broken the contract» between the coalition government partners.

He also revealed that if he wins he plans to sit on the opposition benches as a «critical friend» of the Conservative government.

The government stepped in amid fears that an amendment designed to give straight couples the right to civil partnerships, planned by Tim Loughton, the former children's minister, and two other Tory MPs, could disrupt the equal marriage bill, which is opposed by many Conservatives.

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«The Conservatives won't do this, so the next Labour government must, by hardwiring Labour's new affordable housing throughout the system, from housebuilding targets to investment priorities to planning rules.