Sentences with phrase «liberal state government»

Victoria's Liberal state government has signalled it is willing to provide some money to SPCA together with the federal government, though The Australian Financial Review understands it may not be willing to give the full $ 25 million requested.

Not exact matches

The Liberal government's publicly stated goal is to have at least three LNG terminals up and running by 2020.

«The Liberal government remains busy tinkering with eco fees and tweaking with failed recycling programs while we ship a third of our province's waste — or four million tonnes — to the United States every year,» he said.

Quebec's Liberal government adopted the requirement in 2011 that boards of state - owned enterprises include an equal number of women and men, thereby legislating «gender parity» for that group.

During the second half of the 1990s, the Liberal government was «blessed» with ever growing surpluses, largely because of rapid global economic growth, especially from the United States.

In the budgets presented by the previous Liberal government, it was clearly stated that the Contingency Reserve was not to be used to finance new policy initiatives.

Certainly, the province's Liberal government is vowing to keep up the pressure on the United States.

And my liberal friends look at that and they say, «If we had not created this halfway measure of health security, we would have what every other country has,» which seems to work well in other places, which is a government - run system where health protection insurance is guaranteed in some way or another, the exact structures differ, but by the state.

OTTAWA — In a letter to an employer in his Ontario riding, a Liberal MP says his own government is wrongly invoking the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on its controversial Canada Summer Jobs attestation, and calls the whole thing «regrettable» and a «lamentable state of affairs.»

The defeat of the Laurier - led Liberal government in 1911, after they had supported a free trade agreement with the United States, had disappointed western farmers.

Despite the dire state of CIHR funding, the new Liberal government's 2017 budget provided no new funding for CIHR.

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

SNC - Lavalin Group Inc. is pressing Canada's new Liberal government to adopt corporate corruption settlement deals like those in place in the United Kingdom and the United States, saying federal charges laid against the company are hurting its ability to compete against rivals in Group of 7 countries.

Thus, it is no surprise when empirical research shows that Justin Bieber Blog people who are believers give more of their time and resources to the needy than do unbelievers, and people who cherish limited government (conservatives) give more than welfare - state liberals.

The other theme, regularly expressed by those on the right in our politics, is to blame everything on the failures of «Great Society liberals,» to chalk the situation up to the follies of big government and big spending, to see the problem as the legacy of a tragically misconceived welfare state.

I would be willing to divide the country in half with 25 states all liberal and the other 25 all conservative and just have separate governments and separate elections, etc..

Ronald Dworkin, a welfare - state liberal and constitutional scholar, also endorses the principle of neutrality, claiming that «government must be neutral on what might be called the question of the good life.»

In an admirable display of philosophical consistency and logic, the Obama administration thus implicitly and effectively endorsed the Hobbesian liberal ontology that there ought exist only individuals and the state» all other competitors are to be regarded as oppressors, and require an expansive and empowered government for individual liberation.

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.

But if endowments are conceived solely as instruments, rather than equal partners with the state in pursuit of the public good, then the classic principle of private association in liberal democracies has been lost, for instrumentality implies that government alone is the public good's ultimate arbiter.

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.

The South Australian Liberals adopted the 10 - year moratorium as a policy cornerstone in late 2016, and aren't budging after a win in the March 17 state election by Mr Marshall ended 16 years of Labor government.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

Broadly, the source said Cuomo's speech will take on an «adversarial federal government» and charge that it has put the state's economic and politically liberal values at stake.

In Russia «liberal» means people who oppose welfare state, free education and medicine, support privatization and free markets, oppose protectionism and government regulation, support the US and NATO on international issues (such as NATO bombings).

Since the formation of the Coalition Government in 2010 the SLF has consistently stated that the Liberal Democrats must maintain independence as a political party, and develop policies that are distinctive, radical and progressive.

As the British state tries to make a register of foreign - born children, parents should question a liberal trust in government and reject borders in classrooms.

The political ideology of the people who sat on the left were more liberal which at the time tended to mean anti monarchy, pro democracy, pro free trade and in America it meant smaller federal government and stronger states rights.

The Queen will set out the Conservative / Liberal Democrat UK Government's final programme of legislation during the State Opening of Parliament

To do this, liberal groups insisted, he must forge a unified Democratic government in the state capital — an endangered species nationwide after the devastating election cycles of 2014 and 2016.

The delegations have included former Labour Minister for Education and Minister for the Arts, Baroness Tessa Blackstone, Labour's current Shadow Minister for Early Years, Tracy Brabin, and former Secretary of State for Scotland, former Government Deputy Chief Whip and Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael.

It's hard to overstate how much that control means to a certain brand of diehard liberals, who long to see unified state government finally crank its policy machinery at full activist throttle (and whose exasperation with Cuomo forms the core of opposition to the governor within his own party).

Shortly after his re-election in 2010, David was appointed as the Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for Wales in the Conservative - Liberal Democrat Coalition Government.

Kirsty Williams AM, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, has written to the First Minister today stating that her party will vote against the Local Government Settlement unless a better deal for rural authorities is put forward.

Rivera, one of the most liberal members of the State Legislature, has reprised his attacks from two years ago: namely that Cabrera — an evangelical pastor — used to be a registered Republican, maintains ties to conservative groups like the Family Research Council and has praised the government of Uganda, which subjects homosexuals to imprisonment.

The amendment vaguely states Clegg's «part of the coalition» supports the mansion tax, but the overall effect is to shore up Liberal Democrat investment in a government which opposes it.

The Liberal Democrats» Sue Miller warned peers: «Once the concept that the government can order an inquiry instead of an inquest has been established and has gained a statutory footing, we will have taken a big step down a road where the public will lose all trust that we have maintained adequate defences against state impunity.»

The idea that liberals in government could sit by and watch as the state took over regulation of a device meant to scrutinise it is appalling to me.

«The last thing hardworking taxpayers want is an all - Democrat, all - New York City run state government free to push their liberal tax - and - spend agenda on the people of New York,» Skelos said this morning.

The Conservatives have compared the arrest to a Mugabe - style police state, and are working closely with the Liberal Democrats to discover what government figures knew about the arrest before it happened.

One hundred Liberal Democrat council and group leaders join Gerald Vernon Jackson, leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the Local Government Association, in a letter to the chancellor on the state of the UK economy ahead of Budget 2012:

He's a narcissist and a huckster, an opportunist who not only failed to join conservatives in the big fights about the size and scope of government over the past several decades but, to the extent he was even aware of such battles, was often funding the other side, with a long list of contributions to the liberals most responsible for the dire state of affairs in the country, including likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

A Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition government will put a binding motion before the House of Commons in the first days following this agreement stating that the next general election will be held on the first Thursday of May 2015.

Yesterday's document stated: «We have agreed a process that will allow Liberal Democrats to maintain their opposition to nuclear power while permitting the government to bring forward the national planning statement for ratification by parliament so that new nuclear construction is possible.»

May 20th 2010 - After Britain's general election, the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition's programme for government states: «We will implement the proposals of the Calman Commission.»

Supporters defended Cuomo's liberal credentials throughout the campaign, noting his work to pass same - sex marriage and gun control measures while also working to cut state government dysfunction and boost the economy through business - friendly tax policies and initiatives designed to spur economic development in western New York.

«New Yorkers looking at their state government have gone from disillusionment to disappointment to despair,» said Michael Kink, a liberal advocate who leads the Strong Economy for All Coalition.

Their report on conference was included in this week's Sharp End, which featured Welsh Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson Cllr Bablin Molik discussing our conference, the Welsh Government's Continuity Bill and the state of poverty in Wales.

In August 2017, former Labour Minister for Education and Minister for the Arts, Baroness Tessa Blackstone, Labour's current Shadow Minister for Early Years, Tracy Brabin, and former Secretary of State for Scotland, former Government Deputy Chief Whip and Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael, were part of a Caabu / Medical Aid for Palestinians delegation to the West Bank.