Sentences with phrase «our last election»

In the last election, business leaders chose Stephen Harper over Michael Ignatieff by a margin of three - to - one, according to a Compas poll at the time.

After the last election, both Bloomberg News and the National Post reported that Oliver rejected calls from officials to cool the housing market.

The technique used by Matz and her colleagues sounds quite similar to techniques that were widely employed in the last election and which some commentators suggest propelled President Trump to victory (this article offers a fascinating deep dive into the subject if you have a few minutes to spare).

Closer to home, there's a reasonable chance that our current president will implode because of his historically low popularity, a fight with his own party and a looming investigation of Russia's interference in our last election.

And they don't need to hear every grisly detail of your divorce or whom you voted for in the last election.

Andrew ran against Jack Layton in the last election and will do so again, meaning Lang can no longer interview the NDP leader.

While it is just as powerful, it's also the polar opposite of what President Obama touted last election.

Fox News «had a man on this morning who was a Democrat his whole life, he voted as a Democrat, but he voted for — I say «us,» I don't say «me» — he voted for us in the last election 2016,» Trump told supporters at the packed Covelli Centre.

(For confirmation please see the last election).

An Abacus Data poll released this month found 62 percent of Canadians think Trudeau is doing at least «an acceptable job» on the economy, including 49 percent of those who voted in the last election for the Conservatives.

The last election was held in 2011 and saw the right - wing Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) win the most seats (38), and republicans Sinn Féin elected as the second largest party (29).

In the last election, he won just under 40 per cent.

But I can tell you that we worked in Kenya in 2013 on the last election for Kenyatta.

Even the Australian government (which ran on the last election of cancelling the carbon tax imposed by the previous socialist government; and they won) have just cancelled all government funding of solar and wind power generation.

The party expects to own the constituencies that will rally to the progressive theme: specifically women and youth; and, overall, the majority of the 60 per cent who bothered to vote in the last election.

Well, we've just kicked out a lot of people in the last election.

In the last election, the Conservative promised additional tax expenditure, amounting to $ 3 billion a year, once the budget is balanced.

In looking at parliamentary activity since the last election, issues concerning the wave of media acquisitions over the last year and a half were barely mentioned.

The NDP made a hopelessly confusing hash of the greenhouse gas (GHG) file in the last election (see the intemperate rants here, here and here), mainly because of its lack of understanding of environmental economics.

The Liberals lost badly in the last election, partly as a result of Mr. Dion's complicated Green Shift plan that would put a tax on carbon.

In the last election, the Liberals and the Greens were the only parties that had the intellectual integrity to accept this fact, and they made an effort to deal with it.

Forget the specifics, for a paragraph, because this is a notable development: while these hearings usually devolve into partisan cliches with the same talking points — Democrats want regulations, and Republicans don't — yesterday Senators from both sides of the aisle expressed unease with Facebook's handling of private data; obviously Democrats tried to tie the issue to the last election, but that made the Republicans» shared concern all - the - more striking.

«This all started with Christy Clark as education minister ripping up contracts, and it continued with her deliberately trying to provoke a strike for her own political gain in the lead up to the last election.

To date, those companies have been operating as if it is up to them to decide how much to tell us about their role in Russia's interference in the last elections.

In addition to promises of jobs for British Columbians in this industry, Premier Clark also said in the last election that our LNG would be the cleanest in the world.

Congress and the public also need to be fully informed about exactly what advertising support services the companies provided to individual candidates in the last election, and how that functioned.

The Strategic Counsel poll referenced earlier, for example, found that 15 percent of voters ranked the environment as the most important issue, up from three percent in the last election.

The Liberals have also attempted to counter the image of Prime Minister Stephen Harper put forth by the Conservative Party, instead portraying him as a controlling and secretive leader with a hidden agenda, and attacking his judgment by tying him to past Conservative scandals, such as the Cadman affair, alleged spending misconduct in the last election, and the conduct of Maxime Bernier, the former Conservative minister of foreign affairs.

«Mr. Speaker, that kind of muckraking is exactly what Canadians rejected at the last election,» he sighed in the direction of the NDP's Alexandre Boulerice.

(Redford beat the Liberals by 3 % last election, and 308.com projects her to beat the Wildrose by 3 %) Yes

Meanwhile, the Trudeau government will add four times as much debt as it promised in the last election.

The vast majority of farm states voted for President Trump in the last election.

There is no denying that the Wildrose Party is a force in this election campaign and should be represented in the televised debates, but it is important to remember that neither Ms. Smith or any of her party's four incumbent MLA's were elected as Wildrose candidates in the last election.

Prime Minister Najib Razak was the best thing going for the ruling coalition in Malaysia's last elections, but he's a hindrance this time because of financial scandals and government policies blamed for a rising cost of living.

«She is living in poverty because the B.C. Liberal government is taking the money her dad pays to support her, and using it to pay for their misguided priorities, like spending more than a million dollars hiring failed B.C. Liberal candidates and giving insiders cushy appointments after the last election.»

At the same time, however, I think the NDP did get some support from (small c) conservative voters in the last election, who really wanted the PCs out but couldn't bring themselves to vote Wildrose.

The most recent notable exception was Ken Kowalski, who retired before the last election after 33 years as a PC MLA (and his three decade long political career in provincial politics is very uncommon).

To pose a credible threat to Justin's Trudeau's re-election in 2019, the Conservatives may not absolutely need a strong showing in Quebec... as long as they recoup some of the ground lost in B.C. in the last election.

Susan, Alison Redford won the last election on promises she made that we very quickly learned were just pure lies.

It is the method of taking two parties whose visions were resoundingly rejected in the last election, and hoping / assuming that there were enough people clinging to those rejected visions to beat the NDP and form government.

The Liberals hope their candidate Mary MacDonald can regain the support they lost in the last election and maintain their position as the de facto alternative to the Conservatives in this riding.

In the last election, led by Ms. Smith, the Wildrose Party nominated 11 women in a slate of 87 candidates (12 %).

Despite being less than three years from the last election, Premier Jim Prentice expected to trigger an election within weeks.

In the last election, the PCs nominated 22 women in their slate of 87 candidates (25 %), which was up slightly from 17 out of 83 candidates in the 2008 election (20 %).

The center that was disappointed by Allison Redford and the center who in the last election had no one they felt comfortable with other than the NDP.

«This speech represents a continued abandonment of the commitments the PCs made to voters in the last election and upon which the Premier's majority relies.

The PCs promised they'd deal with this in the last election, but the Throne Speech contains only a hollow silence.»

Heck, you could even promise to implement your party's long - list of unfulfilled promises from the last election.

The report includes facts about lobbying spending that hit $ 2 billion in the last election cycle, and continues unabated, Wall Street executives in the Trump administration and regulatory agencies, tax cut windfalls for the finance industry, and a deregulatory free - for - all.

This represented a significant improvement from the last election in 2004, where the Party (led at the time by Premier Ralph Klein) won 62 seats and 47 percent of the vote.