Sentences with phrase «as liberals and conservatives»

It appears, at least as far as liberals and conservatives are concerned, familiarity breeds contempt.

I suspect that the liberal / conservative divide itself is a factor in these declining numbers, and yet the divide grows with every new disconcerting study as liberals and conservatives point at one another and yell, «It's your fault!»

Suspicions are justifiably raised when it is said of an author that he «can not be pigeonholed,» or that he «moves us beyond sterile partisan disputes,» or that he «transcends categories such as liberal and conservative.»

The divides generally follow; the lines of what are described as liberal and conservative dispositions.

Not exact matches

The issue of marijuana has become a hot potato politically, as Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau calls for legalization of recreational marijuana, and the Conservatives oppose the move, saying it would only increase use, especially among youth.

Carson and Leno played it straighter, but their tolerant - centrist orientation (sympathetic to gays and other minorities, scornful of the religious right) struck some conservatives as liberal bias.

He has made himself a highly visible nuisance to Liberal leadership, particularly by voting in favour of a Conservative motion in the House to extend consultations on the small - business tax reforms, and they kicked him off a couple of House committees as punishment.

And yet, as Reynolds points out, the Conservative - Liberal coalition government actually increased spending in real - dollar terms by 5.3 % in the past year.

Not only are Johnson and Weld social liberals and fiscal conservatives, they espouse views traditionally associated with moderate Republican candidates on the economy, such as favoring international trade agreements and reducing the national debt.

Soros is actively interested in politics as well, seen as a friend to liberals and an enemy of conservatives in the US.

That is why I have concerns, whether it is the Liberals or the Conservatives who are trying to take credit for a system developed over generations as a result of Canadians saying we need to support these standards and ensure they stay in place.

One of the missing facts in Darcy's report is that while conservatives with big microphones taught their listeners not to believe what is reported in the mainstream media (and especially the elite press in New York and Washington) they themselves still relied on those sources as their baseline reality — minus the liberal «spin,» of course.

Regardless of the response, we view this kind of public CEO activism as a welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds of millions of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and think tanks to promote liberal and conservative causes.

This is mostly a hypocritical argument since liberals and conservatives both use the word «reform» as often as the opposition.

Among the many well - known Canadians scheduled as «participants» were Stephen Harper's Conservative cabinet ministers Stockwell Day (who at first denied attending) and the then - defence minister Gordon O'Connor, deputy ministers (Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj. - Gen.

This is an idea - allowing private delivery within the publicly funded health care system - that the Liberals have tolerated, and the Conservatives have a long list of quotations on their Web site designed to show that Harper's stance is the same as the Liberals».

Mac Harb, a Liberal - appointed senator, and Patrick Brazeau, appointed as a Conservative on the same day in 2008 when Duffy was called to his red - chamber reward, were both resisting paying back their disputed expenses, MacDougall told reporters.

For as he kept repeating, a Conservative government did these things, and no Liberal government had, and no NDP government, on most of these files, would.

Based on what Environment Minister Peter Kent recently told CBC's Evan Solomon, the Tories no longer oppose only the broadest form of carbon tax (as proposed Stéphane Dion is his disastrous 2008 election run as Liberal leader), but also the cap - and - trade option, which use to be in the Conservative platform (it's on page 32 here).

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.

Dante Dallavalle: A lot of conservatives and liberals alike are touting the bill as supportive of small community banks and community development banks, because it no longer forces them to comply with regulations.

Join The Globe and Mail on Thursday, September 17, as it hosts Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

It was clear even before Kraft Heinz came right out and said as much Tuesday that liberal Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and conservative Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and their respective backers had little reason to bash each other for not doing enough to keep Oscar Mayer's Madison plant open with taxpayer - backed financial assistance.

Conservatives would doubtlessly — and not without some justification — respond by noting that expressed as a share of GDP, direct program spending has simply been returned to the levels they inherited from Paul Martin's Liberal government.

Legitimate small business tax rules — put in place by previous Liberal and Conservative governments to support small business growth and expansion — are now thought of as loopholes being exploited by the fat - cat owner of the neighbourhood coffee shop, chiropractor or dry cleaner.

In his keynote address to the convention, Justin Trudeau cast next year's election as a two - way fight between his Liberals and the Conservatives.

Back in 2014, it was a good idea for Trudeau and the Liberals to start thinking of Conservatives as neighbours — as people with whom they would have to find common ground.

Past Conservative voters who own small businesses view this proposal as unfair by nearly seven - to - one, and they are joined in this opinion by a plurality of Liberal - voting business owners (43 %), as seen in the following graph:

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.

Dr. Sherman was first elected as a Progressive Conservative MLA in 2008, became Liberal leader in 2011 and was re-elected as MLA for Edmonton - Meadowlark in the recent vote.

Martin, Pablo Rodriguez, Ignatieff, Coderre, John Manley and the business liberals as a whole are indistinguishable from the centre of the Conservative Party, and clearly to the right of the old red - Tories in the former Progressive Conservative Party.

Canada and Alberta needs a Progressive Conservative Party and a Liberal Party to keep democracy stable in Canada as well as in Alberta.

Anyway, it'll be on policy choices that the Trudeau Government stands or falls with Canadian voters, regardless of the effort of the Conservatives to make couture an issue, and while there's plenty to criticize in the Liberal policy book, taken as a package Canadians don't yet seem that dissatisfied with what they're getting.

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.

IMHO, there tends to be little electoral overlap between the provincial and federal levels, at least in this province, and in fact the vote splits between right, left and centre are quite different with one unified Conservative party (more aligned with Wildrose than with Alberta PC), and a not - quite - as - moribund Liberal party in play.

Sharing their limited resources, as the provincial and federal New Democratic Party do officially and the Wildrose Party and Conservative Party have done unofficially, could provide stability in membership, fundraising, and organization for the two Liberal Parties in Alberta.

As the Liberals and NDP fill ballots across the province with last minute paper candidates, with few exceptions Alberta remains safe electoral territory for the Conservative Party of Canada.

Chances are that the Liberals will denounce the Conservatives, and propose themselves as the only alternative, leaving the big and very profitable corporations out of it.

The party is pushing to overcome a surge of support for the Liberals that seems to threatens any chance of the Conservatives winning a majority government and potentially a minority as well.

A 2011 Maclean's survey of historians on Canada's prime ministers ranked John A. Macdonald, of course, the top Conservative (in second spot, after Liberal Wilfrid Laurier) and pegged Borden as the next highest - rated Tory PM (in eighth position overall).

Harper has yet to set a date for the byelection but it is already being seen as a trial run for the 2015 election, with the NDP and Liberals each trying to prove they are the only real alternative to the governing Conservatives.

I can't imagine he's ignorant of the fact that «liberal» is a standard term in theology, and that «conservative,» while lacking the same pedigree, has an obvious theological meaning as well.

At the same time, Posner, in describing moral academics as split between «two main subsets, the liberal «secular and the conservative «religious,» may mislead readers into believing that the academy is more or less equally split between those two groups.

Pluralism, much as it continues to be prized among liberals, is a self - destructive notion rejected by both radicals and conservatives.

To me it reads as if you think that being liberal is somehow inferior to being conservative, and because «rebelling against» anything is often associated with juveniles.

But there is perhaps a use we might make of the postmodern in apologetics, for the collapse of modernity may allow believers to speak once again about God without defensiveness or self - consciousness, may allow believers both to escape political categorization as liberal or conservative and to escape the modern view that sees political categories as fundamental.

I watch the horror and intolerance of my «liberal» friends trashing «conservatives» as severely as the bundled up man in the NP cartoon.

Just as conservatives denounce the Westboro baptist church and their tactics, I hope that «liberals» everywhere denounce those who use hateful threats of violence, death, and damnation as tactics for furthering the liberal agenda (or ANY agenda at that)

There remain both «federal conservatives» and «federal liberals» (as the English Evangelical Graham Kings has put it), both groups of which, for all their doctrinal differences, share the belief that Anglicanism as a communion does not matter all that much.

There's an increasingly powerful consensus among both liberals and conservatives that, within reasonable limits, people should be able to do as they please.