Sentences with phrase «parliamentary committee in»

Failure to recognise the social determinants of health and failure to respond effectively to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody has developed into a situation where even the Chief Justice of Western Australia, Wayne Martin, told a parliamentary committee in August 2015 that «young Aboriginal people consider jail a «rite of passage»».

I indicated to the Joint Parliamentary Committee in response to a series of questions put to me when I appeared before it on 22 February 2000 that the amended NTA as a whole could not be considered a special measure but to the extent that the amended NTA recognises and protects the traditions and customs of Indigenous people then this recognition and protection was a non-discriminatory differential treatment of Indigenous people.

Gordon Nardell QC in discussions with the All Party Parliamentary Committee in April talked of the «legal bonanza» following a Brexit vote.

After stepping down, Alderman gave evidence to a Parliamentary Committee in 2013, which the Telegraph reported: «In a grilling before the Public Accounts Committee, former Serious Fraud Office head Richard Alderman was attacked for his «shocking» stewardship of the organisation and forced to admit he had not obtained written approval for the severance packages to three colleagues.»

Pretty well as bad was Pearce's subsequent report on Jones» appearance before the parliamentary committee in which he claimed the committee didn't ask the questions it should have done and quoted with approval from the Institute of Physics submission.

Bob Ward says I uttered a «a number of inaccurate and misleading statements» when I appeared before a UK parliamentary committee in January 2014.

Mr Corbyn confirmed the move at a meeting of the party's parliamentary committee in parliament yesterday afternoon.

During testimony before the parliamentary committee in September 2009, Les Hinton, the former executive chairman of News International who now heads Dow Jones, said, «There was never any evidence delivered to me suggesting that the conduct of Clive Goodman spread beyond him.»

Meanwhile, in the U.K., Zuckerberg has been summoned by the chairman of a parliamentary committee in order to explain the «catastrophic failure» to lawmakers.

Corbyn confirmed the move at a meeting of the party's parliamentary committee in parliament yesterday afternoon.

The lawyers, led by an official at the Prime Minister's office, tried to turn natural resource provision upside down in favour of the vessel owners, but to its credit the parliamentary committee in charge restored the original language of the clause proposed by the Constitutional Council.

Appearing before another parliamentary committee in 2003, Brooks had been asked whether News of the World or The Sun had ever paid police for information.

Not exact matches

Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer was... grilled, sautéed, nearly flambéed, in an appearance before a U.K. parliamentary committee on Thursday.

«If we were to try to control the level of our exchange rate, we would have to start to close what is one of the most open and effective capital markets, money markets, in the world, in order to be successful,» Carney told a parliamentary committee this month, also warning «there would undoubtedly be a suspicion» that we were «trying to gain a competitive advantage» if we tried to control our interest rate.

The FT reported that, in a written submission to the parliamentary committee scrutinizing the draft «Investigatory Powers Bill», Apple argued the law would «immobilize substantial portions of the tech sector and spark serious international conflicts.»

In testimony before a parliamentary committee, Jeff Silvester of B.C. - based AggregateIQ also insisted his company's services, which he said include digital ads, website creation and software development, are already widely used by Canada's major political parties.

In his appearance before a parliamentary committee, Facebook Canada's public policy head Kevin Chan was questioned by New Democrat MP Charlie Angus on why he had yet to register as a lobbyist, given the fact he's met senior cabinet members, including Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

In a resignation letter to May, Amber Rudd said she had inadvertently misled a parliamentary committee last Wednesday by denying the government had targets for the deportation of illegal migrants.

«We require that people have a terms and conditions and we have an automated check there at the time — this was in 2014, maybe earlier,» Mike Schroepfer told U.K. lawmakers at a parliamentary committee hearing.

Sandy Parakilas, who worked in data protection for Facebook in 2011 and 2012, told a U.K. parliamentary committee Wednesday that the company was vigilant about its network security but lax when it came to protecting users» data.

Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz prepares to speak before a parliamentary committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 6, 2013.

The budget was restored only after the PBO submitted an «action plan» in response to recommendations made by the joint House and Senate Committee for the Parliamentary Library.

Yesterday Facebook revealed that more users than previously thought could have had their personal information passed to the company back in 2014 — saying as many as 87 million Facebook users could have had their data «improperly shared», thereby confirming the testimony of ex-Cambridge Analytica employee, Chris Wylie, who last month told a UK parliamentary committee he believed that substantially more than 50M Facebook users had had their information swiped.

The Chair of parliamentary committee investigating «fake news», the conservative MP Damian Collins, accused both Cambridge Analytica and Facebook of misleading his committee's investigation in a statement early Sunday morning indicating that both companies would be called in for more questioning.

This post is in response to the following excellent comment from Stephen Moore, the man who will trounce Ralph Goodale in the next federal election (or at least do better than I did): April 2007 testimony before the parliamentary committee on International Trade saw Industry Canada, DFAIT reps and others stress the importance of the -LSB-...]

«I think, given the extraordinary evidence we've heard so far today, it is absolutely astonishing that Mark Zuckerberg is not prepared to submit himself to questioning in front of a parliamentary or congressional hearing, given these are questions of fundamental importance and concern to his users, as well as to this inquiry,» Damian Collins, the member of parliament heading the UK committee, said earlier on Tuesday.

The Liberals recently voted down a study of minimum income when the proposal was raised in parliamentary committee by NDP MP Guy Caron.

That approval is usually given in June, after examination by Parliamentary committees.

Four years after Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation was enacted, the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development has pledged to change it, in response to a parliamentary committee, which pointed to glaring flaws that were creating confusion for those trying to comply with the law.

Under what are referred to as «supply» rules in Parliament, Main Estimates, which detail the Government's spending intentions for the upcoming fiscal year, must be referred to the appropriate Parliamentary Standing Committees for review before March 1st.

A UK parliamentary committee has published a cache of documents provided to it by an ex CA employee, Chris Wylie, who gave public testimony in front of the committee at an oral hearing earlier this week.

In addition, by including many major policy initiatives, it precludes substantive policy reviews by the appropriate Parliamentary Committee and by Parliament itself.

The first Omnibus bill engendered considerable discussion and hostility because, by including major policy changes in the Bill, it precluded substantive policy reviews by appropriate Parliamentary Committees, and indeed limited review by Parliament itself.

The parliamentary committee also found that, even after the controversy around Goldman's deals, Deutsche went on to arrange two further loans worth a total of $ 1.23 billion for the already indebted fund in 2014.

Parliament officials said the draft legislation is expected to be debated at a Parliamentary committee Thursday, with a view to it being voted on in the plenary session on Sunday.

April 2007 testimony before the parliamentary committee on International Trade saw Industry Canada, DFAIT reps and others stress the importance of the SPP (Security & Prosperity Partnership) to making sure the «North American platform» is competitive in «global value chains.»

A parliamentary committee will be set up to investigate each of the 10, in a process expected to last for at least one month.

Speaking during the debate, central bank governor Stournaras said secret witness testimonies implicating himself and his wife, who runs a communications and consultancy company specializing in the health sector, were lies, and called for the parliamentary investigative committee to be set up to look into all allegations.

In fulfilling these obligations, the Reserve Bank will continue to publish its analysis of financial stability matters through its half - yearly Financial Stability Review and will be available to report as appropriate to relevant Parliamentary committees.

This year, individuals and organizations interested in reserving a presentation time, making a written, audio or video submission, or completing the online survey, will have the option of using the Parliamentary Committee's new consultation portal.

We therefore sought to influence the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee to increase governance in respect of expropriation matters so as to avoid potential abuse / arbitrary expropriations taking place.

This message was brought home clearly earlier this year in Asia when on February 6, the South Korean Intelligence Agency reported to the Parliamentary Intelligence Committee that it deemed North Korea responsible for the hacking of the Japanese Bitcoin exchange centre.

In commenting on the information provided by the Government to the House of Commons on the costs of the fighter jets, the proposed crime legislation and the projections of corporate profits, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) did provide an assessment of these estimates [2] in their report to the CommitteIn commenting on the information provided by the Government to the House of Commons on the costs of the fighter jets, the proposed crime legislation and the projections of corporate profits, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) did provide an assessment of these estimates [2] in their report to the Committein their report to the Committee.

«Had Howard followed the example of previous political leaders in their dealings with gun massacres, he could have dropped the matter into the abyss of the parliamentary committee process,» Simon Chapman, a professor emeritus at the University of Sydney, writes in his book Over Our Dead Bodies.

So, Mr. Kenney, who just this week was appointed to the parliamentary committee studying electoral reform, could be abandoning plans to replace Rona Ambrose as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and setting his sights on uniting - the - right and challenging Rachel Notley «s moderate New Democratic Party government in 2019.

Former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page called for this system because it puts spending decisions back in the hands of Parliament; and in fact, Minister Clement has already examined this proposal in response to a recommendation by the House of Commons Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.

In addition, it would provide for more in - depth scrutiny of the Estimates by the respective Parliamentary committeeIn addition, it would provide for more in - depth scrutiny of the Estimates by the respective Parliamentary committeein - depth scrutiny of the Estimates by the respective Parliamentary committees.

All this has attracted the attention of one Barry Sheerman, chairman of the parliamentary cross-party committee on children, schools and families, who now wants to haul offending bishops (the good news is that there are at least two) in front of his committee for an inquisitorial going - over (which by the time you read this may have taken place).

A politician, a senator who had been chairperson of the parliamentary committee established, with a thin democratic veneer, to steer the government's abortion agenda past the alleged representatives of the people, expressed outrage at encountering Christian teaching at a Mass at the historic Knock Shrine in County Mayo.

Firstly, he was summoned to a parliamentary committee to explain the document, amidst press reports of Bishops promoting a «fundamentalist brand» of Catholicism in their schools.