Sentences with phrase «liberal election promise»

The legislation is primarily targeted at reducing auto insurance fraud in order to bring down premiums by 15 per cent, which was a key Liberal election promise.

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, many British Columbians believed the Liberal election promises last year.

Panel 1 in the Table below provides cost estimates for most of the Liberal election promises so far.

The Table below provides cost estimates for most of the Liberal election promises as of August 26.

Unfortunately, by then, most budget decisions had already been made and the chances that the Committee's recommendations (other than Liberal election promises) would have any impact on the Budget were virtually non-existent.

The Table below provides cost estimates for most of the Liberal election promises as of September 1.

Not exact matches

The Liberals made a few big - ticket election campaign spending promises, but, on the tax side, they also indicated they intend to pad revenues over the next few years with higher tax rates for personal and corporate income.

In Ontario, for instance, Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne has included a separate provincial pension counterpart as one of her party's key election promises ahead of the province's June 12 election.

The Liberals have introduced changes as they try to fulfil their 2015 election promise to improve Parliament's financial processes by bringing more consistency and clarity when it comes to government accounting of how it spends public money.

The federal Liberal Party's recent election promise to create a new tax bracket for rich Canadians has been quickly decried by — well, rich Canadians.

In the Liberals» election platform, they promised to restore this requirement and the government did so in 2017.

His latest Update does not include the cost of the Liberals» election promises.

For the Liberals and New Democratics, the figures come directly from their costing of their election promises.

The Liberal government in Ottawa is facing a host of demands based on promises it made during the election campaign.

Ontario's Liberal government says it plans to offer free child care for thousands of preschoolers across the province starting in 2020, a promise that comes as it faces a looming spring election.

That includes how the Liberals will be able to afford all of their election promises.

By 2017, B.C. families and industries will have seen their power costs increase by 80 per cent on the B.C. Liberal's watch, including as a result of Premier Clark's broken election promises on hydro rates.

TERRACE — The New Democrats agree with the newly formed Northwest B.C. Resource Benefits Alliance that the B.C. Liberal government should act on their election promise to share Northern resources with Northern communities.

The Liberals are expected to table changes to the Statistics Act in the coming weeks that would address the independence promise they made during the election.

Freedom of Information requests filed by the New Democrat Official Opposition have revealed that the Christy Clark Liberal government reduced youth addiction treatment spaces by 25 percent after promising in the 2013 election to build more spaces.

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government rises from the spring legislative session today after driving up families» costs, shedding more B.C. jobs and breaking key election promises.

The recent federal election featured something of a debate on fiscal policy, with the Liberals promising to run modest deficits for three years in order to stimulate a sagging economy and finance needed long - term investments in infrastructure and social programs.

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?

The «majority» Liberal report, contained 56 recommendations, most of which related to promises contained in their election platform.

The Carole James New Democrats are holding the B.C. Liberals accountable for breaking their word on the HST, and for backtracking on their election promises to protect health care, education, and other vital services.

Critics like University of Victoria professors Rob Gillezeau and Jeffrey Ansloos point, for example, to the Parliamentary Budget Officer's analysis that shows the federal government may not have allocated enough money to fulfill the Liberals» key 2015 election promise to eliminate the gap between federal spending on First Nations students and kids attending provincially funded schools.

«We and many allies made Canada Post an election issue in 2015, and the Liberals were elected on a promise to restore door - to - door and to consult on a new vision for Canada Post,» says Mike Palecek, National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW).

South Australian Liberal leader Steven Marshall has promised a «new dawn» for South Australia after his party won the state election and ended 16 years of Labor Government.

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.

And they are also of course exercised at the fact that it will only be possible for this rise to be enacted if it is supported by Liberal Democrat MPs who all promised prior to the election to oppose any rise in fees.

The Liberal Democrats went into the election promising a modest but honest deficit reduction strategy.

At the 1997 general election, both Labour and the Liberal Democrats promised freedom of information laws.

«The Liberal Democrats will fight the next election on a clear and unequivocal promise to restore British prosperity and role in the world, with the United Kingdom in the European Union, not out.

The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg launched the Welsh Liberal Democrats» general election campaign at Cardiff's Panasonic factory promising economic growth for all parts of the UK and «a fairer society for Wales».

Following the election, the Liberal Democrat Leader in the Lords, Lord Wallace, argued that the convention which constrains the Lords from voting down the governing party's manifesto promises (the Salisbury convention — established following Labour's landslide victory in 1945, when the party had just 16 peers) was out of date.

Grayling campaigned before the 2010 election as shadow home secretary promising to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights and replace it with a British Bill of Rights — a move strongly opposed by the Liberal Democrats.

Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Green Party have all pledged to follow the vInspired lead and will deliver five election promises for young people on Twitter, as part of their manifestos; so groundwork has been made.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats today unveiled their manifesto ahead of next month's assembly election, promising to build «a fair future, a green future,» if elected.

The Liberal Democrats have launched their local election campaign with a promise to facilitate change and return power to local communities.

After their new tax plans were approved at conference this week, the Liberal Democrats are now claiming to be the only party who are promising tax cuts at the next election.

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.

Tory MP Edward Leigh brandished a 2010 Liberal Democrat election leaflet featuring Clegg promising a referendum to the Commons and asked if the photo of the deputy prime minister was of «an imposter or a hypocrite».

A decision to substantially keep control orders would present problems for the Liberal Democrats who promised in their election manifesto to scrap them.

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.

The Liberal Democrats have promised to raise the stamp duty threshold if they win the forthcoming general election.

While Mr Cameron promised before the election to implement the tax break, the issue was been kicked into the long grass during coalition negotiations because it is considered paternalistic and hectoring by Liberal Democrats.

«Having promised to redouble the positive, George Osborne is now the front man for a negative campaign against a hypothetical election result,» a Liberal Democrat spokesman said.

In other developments today, Nick Clegg insisted the Liberal Democrats - emboldened by by - election victory in Richmond - would vote against starting Brexit talks without a promised second referendum on the final deal.

A cynic might argue that with an electoral system that translated slightly less than 40 % of the popular vote into a commanding majority in the Commons, the Liberals — in third place in the polls when they released their proposal — will rue having promised to replace first - past - the - vote elections.

The plan, released yesterday after 14 months of deliberation, delivers on an election promise made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party to revisit controversial changes made to Canada's environmental policies by the previous Conservative Party government, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.