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Rodger Cuzner, Kenney's Liberal critic in the House of Commons, said there's been no consultation with the provinces on the program.

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Provincial Liberal fisheries critic Jim Bennett said offering to give up those protections in exchange for $ 280 million in federal cash is a reckless giveaway.

Taxpayers will vote the Liberals out of office if they bring in new taxes, said transportation critic Frank Klees.

Critics also question whether Facebook had censored some conservative content in favor of content more favorable to liberals.

B.C. Opposition Liberal jobs critic Jas Johal said the province must end the escalating dispute before gas prices increase sharply in Metro Vancouver.

While saying that the Liberals welcome investment --» we do need investment in the oilsands and in other industries» — Liberal trade critic Wayne Easter also expressed concerns.

«It was reasonable to predict that the congestion in the pipelines would lead to alternate forms of transportation, the most obvious of which was rail and the more dangerous of which was rail,» said Liberal environment critic John McKay.

«The Liberals are ringing in the New Year by hiking fees on families,» said New Democrat finance critic, Bruce Ralston.

VICTORIA — B.C. youth and New Democrat health critic Judy Darcy are calling on the B.C. Liberal government to protect the health of vulnerable young people by banning the sale of flavoured tobacco in British Columbia.

PC MPP Jeff Yurek, his party's health critic, said the Liberals have had «15 years to invest in mental health and have not done so.»

PRINCE RUPERT — The B.C. Liberal government has not done enough to address the gap in mental health and addiction services in northern B.C. communities, says northern health critic Jennifer Rice.

New Democrat environment critic Spencer Chandra Herbert noted that on Sept. 25, the B.C. Liberal's own deputy minister of the environment said, «I have to be entirely honest in saying, you know, spills unfortunately are going to happen.»

New Democrat deputy environment critic Michael Sather noted the Liberals have gutted the environmental assessment process, creating uncertainty on the land base and a lack of trust in government's ability to protect the environment.

«What we're doing today is putting in place a very serious process and effort to address — in a sophisticated, smart way — how we can secure real prosperity for the Canadian middle class going forward,» said Freeland, who will co-chair the council with Liberal finance critic Scott Brison.

In this stimulating collection of essays written while he served on the President's Council on Bioethics, Peter Augustine Lawler proves himself again one of liberal democracy's most perceptive friendly critics.

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Perhaps the widening of the split between black liberal leaders and black conservative critics will lead to a more principled and passionate political discourse in and about black America.

This negative reaction to black conservatives by most blacks partly explains the reluctance of the new black conservatives to engage in public debates in the black community, and their contrasting eagerness to do so in the mass media, where a few go so far as to portray themselves as courageous, embattled critics of a black liberal establishment — while their salaries, honorariums and travel expenses are paid by well - endowed conservative foundations and corporations.

Some in the church tend to believe that the seminary — at least «liberal» interdenominational seminaries like ours — are, with horrendous results, hopelessly detached from the realities of the workaday world and — such is the mind of our most bitter (and most reactionary) critics — that our graduates are rendered in fact maladroit if not downright incompetent by the very training designed to fit them for ministry.

The rise of McCarthyism, according to Lasch, confirmed in the minds of many liberal critics like Hofstadter that mass movements mask ingrained hatred of the other and therefore control must be taken from the people and the folk cultures they foster.

In Response to Critics Some conservative critics of the mediating institutions argument, I should note as an aside, complain that it, too, falls into the ideologically liberal trap of defining society in terms of only two entities, the state and the solitary individual, with mediating institutions being a fragile buffer between theIn Response to Critics Some conservative critics of the mediating institutions argument, I should note as an aside, complain that it, too, falls into the ideologically liberal trap of defining society in terms of only two entities, the state and the solitary individual, with mediating institutions being a fragile buffer betweeCritics Some conservative critics of the mediating institutions argument, I should note as an aside, complain that it, too, falls into the ideologically liberal trap of defining society in terms of only two entities, the state and the solitary individual, with mediating institutions being a fragile buffer betweecritics of the mediating institutions argument, I should note as an aside, complain that it, too, falls into the ideologically liberal trap of defining society in terms of only two entities, the state and the solitary individual, with mediating institutions being a fragile buffer between thein terms of only two entities, the state and the solitary individual, with mediating institutions being a fragile buffer between them.

In his thought there was none of the utopian thought or «evolutionary optimism» often attributed to liberal theology and the social gospel movement by its critics.

She is also a powerful polemicist: an acerbic social critic who pulls no punches in her articles in Commentary and the Wall Street Journal and her 1992 book If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews.

This approach of balanced criticism of both liberal capitalism and state socialism in their actual manifestations and practices may well inhibit decisive Christian action in some parts of Latin America, as Moltmann's critics imply.

Neither the liberals nor their arch critics are sufficiently open «to genuinely pluralistic conversation in which people from very different starting points can debate and sometimes reach conclusions.»

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

The second critic of the liberal quest who must concern us is Martin Kähler, whose work Der sogennante historische Jesus und der geschichtliche, biblische Christus (ET The So - called Historical Jesus and the Historic, Biblical Christ) was practically ignored at the time of its publication in 1892, but has since been recognized as a major contribution to the discussion.

If the liberal Justices are guilty of partiality and hypocrisy in Hill, isn't the same true of their critics who have, in the past, sharply criticized the Justices for usurping legislative authority and substituting their personal preferences for the contrary judgments of the people's elected representatives?

The party in government is therefore seen by many critics to be advancing an ideological agenda divorced from the socially liberal perspective of many Liberal Democrat suppliberal perspective of many Liberal Democrat suppLiberal Democrat supporters.

While he used the party as a way to highlight women's issues and prove his campaign's socially liberal positions — and even got Hillary Clinton to join him in touting it — critics dismissed the party as an effort to siphon votes from the labor - backed Working Families Party.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., one of Mayor Bill de Blasio's foremost Democratic critics, told the Observer today that he was not willing to foreclose on the possibility of running against the liberal incumbent in this September's primary — saying that he doesn't know «right now what may or may not happen.»

Public opinion and its liberal / anti-liberal critics: A reinterpretation of popular sovereignty in liberal democracy through Lippmann, Schmitt and Dewey

The measure is seen as considerably bad optics as lawmakers did not take up a minimum wage increase in this year's budget — a fact that hasn't escape liberal critics who had pushed for the wage hike.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., one of de Blasio's foremost Democratic critics, is not willing to foreclose on the possibility of running against the liberal incumbent in this September's primary — saying that he doesn't know «right now what may or may not happen.»

Critics say the government is merely keeping its options open in case it has to form a pact with the Liberal Democrats.

Scozzafava, who maintains she is not as liberal as her critics claim, endorsed the Democrat in the race who ultimately went on to victory - the first time a Democrat won in that district in over 100 years.

Its critics, including the legal reform group Howard League for Penal Reform in Scotland and the Scottish Liberal Democrats, argue that Scottish ministers are free to extend the franchise in a referendum to any group they wish.

Critics such as Lord Lester, the Liberal Democrat peer who introduced the idea of registering civil partnerships in a private member's bill two years ago, shared the government's dismay.

Letwin was warmly received by Liberal activists, which will no doubt confirm - Letwin chuckled - what his critics in the Tory party have always thought: he's a soggy lLiberal activists, which will no doubt confirm - Letwin chuckled - what his critics in the Tory party have always thought: he's a soggy liberalliberal.

«I think, and I feel many people do, that Nick's leadership has just been too bland, he's not been bold enough in advancing liberal values,» says Simon Titley, Co-Editor of The Liberator magazine, a critic from the left of the party.

The possibility that Mark - Viverito's candidacy could be derailed because she is too progressive alarms Allen Roskoff, president of the LGBT Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club and a fierce critic of Quinn in her years as speaker.

There were the critics of the New York Times, the Saturday Review and the Harper's / Atlantic axis; there was Dwight MacDonald in Esquire, there were the lonely voices of the liberal weeklies — and almost all the rest was «reviewing,» «entertainment news,» and unashamed gossip.

Macedo charges that many critics of public education mistakenly assume that good citizens «spring full - blown from the soil of private freedom,» while others, forgetting the «civic dimensions of political life,» define liberal democracy exclusively in terms of individual liberties.

Bob Chase, NEA's high - profile president who stepped down in summer 2002 after two terms, was seen by some critics as advocating too liberal an agenda.

Liberal critic John McCallum has criticized the proposal as inadequate, pointing out that it affects only the relatively small percentage of workers who are in federally regulated industries and those working for Crown corporations, saying it would likely lead to a downgrade in pension benefits overall.

The artist recipient of the 2020 Prize will be announced in July 2018, chosen by this year's independent advisory committee, which includes: Ian Berry, Dayton Director of The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery and Professor of Liberal Arts at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Lauren Haynes, Curator, Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Eungie Joo, Curator of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Helen Molesworth, critic; and Lilian Tone, Assistant Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; along with institutional advisors Heather Pesanti, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Contemporary Austin, and Stephanie Roach, Director of The FLAG Art Foundation.

In the wake of these revelations, Liberal public works critic Mark Holland called for a parliamentary inquiry to determine the identity of the donors: «It's clear that this (ad campaign) was used for very partisan purposes, (and) it may have influenced some seats, so it's imperative that we know where that money was coming from.»

[92] In the wake of the revelations, Liberal public works critic Mark Holland called for parliamentary hearings to investigate the source of donations.

Even our strongest critics know we are sincere and honest... in part because one of them, Peter Gleick, stole our confidential budget documents in 2012 and then shared them widely with his liberal allies.