Sentences with phrase «conservative governments»

Typically, Britain's football fans have enjoyed an uneasy relationship with Conservative governments.

That's not, typically, how Conservative governments are meant to work.

When the NGOs are challenged as to who are «the people» whom they represent, a conventional response is that their goals are the goals the people would choose for themselves if conservative governments and transnational corporations did not hide from them what is good for them, and good for the world.

Conservative Governments privatize companies by spending all their money on needless things that do not show a profit (think here of our CPP and Harper in control of the board) then come back to the population telling them the company is broke and the only way to save it is to go private.

Conservative governments (frankly Christy Clark's government is «liberal» in name only) and corporations have become so closely entwined that I fear we are living in a corporatocracy.

Geopolitics, in the case of both Liberal and Conservative governments, usually means carrying water for the Republic next door.

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Traditionally in Conservative governments, the deputy prime minister has been chairman of ops.

Legitimate small business tax rules — put in place by previous Liberal and Conservative governments to support small business growth and expansion — are now thought of as loopholes being exploited by the fat - cat owner of the neighbourhood coffee shop, chiropractor or dry cleaner.

Both Liberal and Conservative governments were willing to take the actions necessary to eliminate the deficit.

What is striking about this clash of business models is that it did not exist in pre Liberal and Conservative governments.

It would appear the Conservatives don't have a lot of confidence in future governments, including future Conservative governments.

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.

(This is a major departure from the practice followed previously by both Liberal and Conservative governments.)

Successive Liberal and Conservative governments have rewritten the rules in important ways.

Soon after the 2015 federal election, Prime Minister - designate Justin Trudeau affirmed that Canada was back as a «compassionate and constructive voice in the world» after a decade of Conservative governments.

Liberal and Conservative governments in the 1980s and 1990s, wanted their public servants to provide their best advice, regardless of whether that disagreed with the government; they wanted policy options costed; and, they were even willing to defend research in public.

Still, neither recent Liberal nor Conservative governments have adequately tackled the country's gaping infrastructure deficit.

«Previous Progressive Conservative governments always wanted to help and offered significant tax breaks in the early life of the wells,» Grad says.

And now, the Conservative government wants to play too.

Ironically, perhaps, it was under Harper's Conservative government that foreigners first felt the Act's sting.

In spite of a hazy policy climate in Canada — the Conservative government seems committed to a more restrictive policy on marijuana, not less — there is an ever more visible grey market in Canada catering to cannabis users.

In March, the Conservative government pledged to put $ 400 million into VC funds.

Trudeau is six months into his bid for the party leadership, and it shows as he briskly shakes every available hand in the room before alighting on his throne to expound on the Conservative government's fickle relationship with China.

They're happy with the Conservative government, and Jim Flaherty in particular.

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

It's no question that six years after the Conservative government terminated the mandatory survey, Canadians are feeling left in the dark, statistically speaking.

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

John Bennett, executive director of Sierra Club Canada, said the Conservative government has failed to act and left the responsibility up to large companies themselves.

I don't really see the conservative government advancing further the kind of spirit of the Canada Health Act in terms of expanding access to services and goods at a national level.

If the Conservative government does indeed love open data, why did it slash Statistics Canada funding and eliminate the mandatory census?

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.

To persist with it, as the Conservative Government has made clear it is determined to do, is a recipe for increasing not reducing threats and insecurity.»

That's a long way of saying the Conservative government could have seen the current temporary foreign worker scandal coming from five decades away.

Orban's nationalist - conservative government has not won many friends in Brussels with this hardline approach to immigration.

It's hard to say what is more remarkable about the Conservative government's record on foreign investment — the variety of ways they've fumbled the file, or the sheer volume of blundering.

Critics of the Conservative government's SOE policy say it was implemented without grounds or sufficient explanation to China, damaging relations.

The Conservative government was working to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly over wheat and barley sales.

Saint - Jacques, however, says politics played a role in the Conservative government's initial rejection of the ITF Technologies deal.

Amid promises of more of the same, there is slight hope that the Conservative government might finally address a long neglected issue — foreign ownership laws.

Speaking at the first Prime Minister's Questions since the general election earlier this month, Corbyn said years of Conservative government cuts to local authority budgets had put public safety at jeopardy and had played a part in the fire that destroyed a tower block in Kensington, west London earlier this month, killing at least 79 people.

Controversy around the deal prompted the Conservative government to implement restrictions on state - owned enterprises acquiring majority stakes in Canadian companies.

The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg reported a clear split among May's most senior colleagues over whether the Conservative government should reverse its position on public sector pay increases.

The Conservative government of the day followed through on some of the report's ideas, updating R & D tax incentives and boosting support for early - stage risk capital.

The Conservative government regularly overrules its independent regulator, the courts overrule the government, and Industry Minister Tony Clement announces major policy decisions via Twitter between discussions of the White Stripes» breakup and updates on his squash game.

The federal budget delivered by the Conservative government on Jan. 27 earned high marks in a recent web poll of Canadian CEOs conducted by COMPAS Inc..

In my opinion, the overall content opens up several key points that the opposition should be able to hammer them on, reinforcing the potential negative perception that people have of the current Conservative government.

However, it was a bridge the Conservative government initially seemed reluctant to build, despite what Harper told U.S. cable channels.

For example, rolling back the cuts made under the Conservative government would bring the rate back up to 22 per cent.

British manufacturing has been left in the margins for far too long and the dearth of investment in fixed capital is something that this Conservative government has absolutely no interest in, or no concept of.