Sentences with phrase «liberal government plans»

The Liberal government plans to launch a 75 - day public consultation process on their proposed changes.

Not exact matches

The party plans to find $ 1.3 billion in government spending cuts (just like the Liberals, but in a shorter time frame), which would be achieved partially through a hiring freeze in the public sector.

The NDP has to decide whether it will prop up the minority Liberal government, but even if it doesn't, the provincial pension plan is likely to become a key part of the Liberals» election platform.

While Wynne's minority Liberal government said a CPP enhancement was still Ontario's «preferred approach» to strengthening the retirement income system, the new provincial plan was touted as the next best thing as governments deal with aging populations and people who aren't saving enough for the future.

The latest trigger for investors was a recent CBC report that the Liberal government would stick to its plan to table legislation for recreational marijuana production, distribution and use this spring, and have laws in effect by July 1, 2018.

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.

«The government has been in office long enough to have a clear plan to deal with the current economic situation, but the sense of urgency from the Trudeau Liberals has been completely absent,» Ambrose said in a statement.

The federal government may be planning to decriminalize marijuana possession, but the B.C. Liberal government is considering decriminalizing a different offense - impaired driving.

Here I discuss the latest development, the Liberal Government of Ontario's proposed financial framework for its «Fair Hydro Plan» (FHP).

Then, the Liberal government in B.C was brought on board after he gave them a $ 1.5 billion Ocean Protection Plan.

A couple months later, in November, when the Burnaby Mountain standoff was at its peak and protesting residents were being arrested, Kinder Morgan again lobbied the provincial government about its plans for Trans Mountain and, you guessed it, wrote a cheque to the BC Liberals.

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.

The Government has continued the practice, first adopted by the Liberals in 1996, of using the average of the private sector economic forecasts for budget and fall update planning purposes.

Under the previous Liberal Government, which first asked the Finance Committee to seek the views of Canadians in the planning for the upcoming budget, the Minister of Finance would appear before the Committee, presenting updated economic and fiscal projections and potential challenges for budget planning.

BC Liberal operative Bonney was hired to be communications director for the government's multiculturalism branch and tasked to carry out the party plan to target ethnic voters in swing ridings for the 2013 election.

The parliamentary secretary to the minister of justice says the Liberal government has no plans currently to legalize or decriminalize «any other drug» than cannabis.

The Liberal government has defended its carbon - pricing plan, with an analysis that concludes the federal and provincial levies would reduce...

With the Liberal plan, the federal government will have a modest short - term deficit of less than $ 10 billion in each of the next two fiscal years — less than half the average Harper deficit of over $ 20 billion per year.

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.

The B.C. Liberal government should act now — in partnership with the City of Surrey, the RCMP, and the Fraser Health Authority — to create an action plan to support mental health in Surrey.

On February 16, 2016 the BC Liberal government delivered its budget and fiscal plan.

VICTORIA — Despite the need for immediate action to fix emergency room overcrowding, inadequate staffing levels and increasing patient volumes at Fraser Health Authority hospitals, the Liberal government is instead buying time with a vague plan to review the health authority, say...

This leaves two very important questions for the Liberal government regarding the Premier's jobs plan failure:

In the wake of media reports about problems at Surrey Memorial Hospital and serious concerns raised by nurses, the B.C. Liberal government announced that it would conduct a review of Fraser Health, producing a three - year strategic plan to be implemented in the new fiscal year.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is facing calls to produce its long - awaited plan to help homeless veterans in Canada, after their plight received only a passing mention in the Liberals» new national housing strategy.

This expensive, centrally managed, government - run program would offer even less choice than the Liberal plan.

That, in itself, was an oddity in a country at a time it was becoming normal for government climate policies to be cooked up in the boardrooms of Calgary oil lobby groups, as happened with B.C.'s «climate leadership plan» under former premier Christy Clark's Liberal government.

While I spent a considerable amount of time knocking on doors for candidates in Edmonton, I was also working with a group of MLAs, lawyers and former PC cabinet ministers on what would have been the plan to transition the Liberals into government if the party had won that election ten years ago today.

The Liberal government should stick to its spending promises, but this will require some adjustment to their taxation plans and stated fiscal goals.

I plan to continue to push the B.C. Liberal government through this fall sitting of the legislature to finally stand up for good democracy and make the shift necessary to put individual citizens at the centre of our democracy.

After telling British Columbians they had no plans to impose a Harmonized Sales Tax, the B.C. Liberal government turned around after the election and announced a new sales tax that will cost consumers billions of dollars.

-- How much public money did the B.C. Liberal government waste on designing the pro-HST pamphlets before backing down on their plans?

The B.C. Liberals» 2007 Energy Plan committed the government to «Work with the federal government, communities and First Nations to advance offshore development».

The Treasury Board approved that $ 365 million budget figure based on a financing plan that the B.C. Liberal government claimed was solid.

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.

SA's Liberal government will continue the planning reforms set in place by the previous Labor government to curb urban sprawl.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg announced today that the government will abandon its plans for reform of the House of Lords.

The Liberal Democrats were quick to seize on the news with former leader Nick Clegg claiming: «The resignation of somebody as experienced as Sir Ivan Rogers is a body blow to the Government's Brexit plans.»

Liberal Democrat councillors have hit out at the government's spending cuts plans, in a move widening the gap with the party's ministers yet again.

«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.

Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs are growing increasingly vocal in their criticism of government plans to expand snooping powers.

But both Democratic liberals and GOP tea party forces swung against the plan, raising questions about its chances just a day before the latest government shutdown deadline.

Liberal Democrats have identified the following problems with Labour's plans to introduce taxpayer - funded meals for primary children: — the Labour Government won't fund a pilot scheme as Islington doesn't meet its criteria so local taxpayers will have to pick up the whole tab.

Danny Alexander MP has announced details of the government's capital spending plans, which are a welcome indication of the long - term investment planned over the coming decade — a Liberal Democrat strategy.

If Labour goes ahead with its plan to argue for more time and oppose the government motion, and if three dozen Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers join forces, then, with the support of at least some of the minor parties, a government defeat or a pyrrhic win is far from impossible.

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.

In just a few days» time Liberal Democrats will be invited to decide whether to endorse their Party's unswerving support for George Osborne's plan for the UK economy OR announce that they believe Osborne's plan hasn't worked and that the Government should change course.

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.

Alec Dauncey, Welsh Liberal Democrat European candidate, has welcomed the news that Conservative plans to opt out of key EU crime - fighting measures have been blocked by Liberal Democrats in coalition government.

The plans were secured by the Liberal Democrats in government.