Sentences with phrase «at government at all levels»

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The threat of a trade war would also freak out the overseas investors we count on to buy our government bonds, and keep our interest rates at super-low levels.

And two, it adds some serious marketing muscle to Bombardier's 130 - seater jet, which has burned up $ 6 billion in development costs for Bombardier and its generous benefactors at various levels of government in Canada.

Intense international pressure at the government and company board level either shocked or shamed most brands into action.

The IMF, Royal Bank, and National Bank are three of the non-partisan voices that have called on the Trudeau government to put in writing its verbal commitment to contain debt at current levels.

Response rates dropped from 94 % to 68 % when the government switched from the mandatory to voluntary questionnaire, and Statistics Canada withheld data at the neighbourhood level, deeming it unreliable.

Also, while consumer debt is falling and corporate debt is not yet at crisis levels, keep in mind that government debt has skyrocketed — ironically, as a response to slow growth in the global economic system.

Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).

Thousands more have stepped forward for offices at all levels of government.

Beijing and the World Bank officially claim China's government debt remains very manageable, at less than 20 % of GDP — far below levels in the industrial world — but the truth is, local governments are piling on new debt at a staggering pace.

That period would prove important for another reason: the government posted Kuroda for a year as special adviser to the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi, giving the civil servant sustained exposure to politicians at the highest levels.

The officials who signed the Monday letter draw their credibility from decades of service at the top levels of government.

In Canada, the report notes, unlike in the U.S., there have been strong efforts to emphasize diversity at the highest levels of government and society, most notably that of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who appointed 15 men and 15 women to cabinet positions.

The federal government does not intervene with legalized marijuana at the state level under the guidance of the Cole Memo written in 2013 by then Deputy Attorney General James Cole.

The aim of the forum, initiated by the South African government, was to formulate proposals for consideration at a high level government - sponsored conference to be held in July in South Africa.

I don't really see the conservative government advancing further the kind of spirit of the Canada Health Act in terms of expanding access to services and goods at a national level.

Some governments attempt to hold their currency at a defined level against another, usually the U.S. dollar.

That means that as gross domestic product (GDP) has expanded, the gains have flowed to corporate and owners» profits and to the state, which is delighted to collect higher taxes at every level of government, from property taxes to income taxes.

Extreme politicians at every level of government are doing everything they can to block millions of people from coming to Planned Parenthood, deny access to affordable health care, and roll back women's rights over their own bodies.

These positions are public sector and governments at all levels are facing budget pressures, but even so average salaries are close to $ 100,000 and some go considerably higher.

But there has been no discussion of America's corporate consolidation during the debates, nor of funding levels at federal government organizations like the NIH, DARPA or the U.S. Department of Energy.

The federal government's 2013 budget unveiled Thursday contains a select few initiatives aimed at reducing costs at the household level including efforts to close the U.S. - Canada price gap for young families.

«He's a guy who thinks at the highest levels — about government, about macroeconomic issues, about geopolitical issues and about what's happening in our industry,» says Colleen Johnston, TD's chief financial officer, adding, «Despite all he's achieved, he's also a guy who can put himself in other people's shoes and think like a normal person.»

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump's push for a major military buildup suffered a setback on Thursday when the House of Representatives put plans on hold to fully fund the federal government through next Sept. 30 and instead resorted to temporary measures freezing spending at current levels.

In a report earlier this year for the Institute for Research on Public Policy, Trent University economist Harry Kitchen argues it's time for governments, particularly at the municipal level, to stop offering price breaks for seniors.

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The government should look at: a) Reduced level of taxation of REIT income.

Former Vice President Joe Biden took a swipe Monday at an increasingly trendy but controversial idea that calls for the government to provide citizens with a base level of income.

Watching building - permit fees fall with the arrival of the bed cap, they lobbied the B.C. government to make vacation home rentals taxable at the same level as hotels.

In recent years, governments at different levels have made several rule changes to address concerns about housing markets in Canada.

He also said he abused his position to help China's highest profile fugitive, Guo Wengui, an exiled U.S. - based billionaire who has made incendiary claims of corruption at the highest levels of the Chinese government.

In addition, many government agencies at the state and federal levels have created set - aside programs that specifically help women - owned businesses in the bidding process.

But the capacity of this group to build, network and develop connections with the government at all levels, specifically in Tamaulipas, gave them the ability to expand in a way that not many groups had.

Martin suggested, roughly, that the most important thing private enterprise can do is this: when governments try to invest in education, at all levels, stay out of the way.

Japan this year became the first country to regulate exchanges at the national level, part of a government effort to exploit financial technology as a means of stimulating the economy.

Federal - government reluctance seems unlikely to slow the roll of officials and businesses at the state and local level, however.

It will also no doubt continue to seek favoritism from government at every level.»

«At the most basic level, government should try to clarify the necessary licenses for operating Bitcoin exchanges,» he added.

In fact, the P3 approach does nothing to solve the fundamental infrastructure funding challenge faced by governments at the local, state, and federal levels.

The province also has the lowest per - capita revenues, at $ 8,369, partly due to relatively low levels of transfers from the federal government.

Ours is an important voice on healthcare, one that global leaders at every level, in and out of government, need to hear.

Our close - knit community consistently allows business leaders to work together with government representatives at the federal, state and local level to resolve challenges.

This means the party could push its right - wing agenda at a national level in a future coalition government.

Essentially, the memo makes it clear that while marijuana is illegal at the federal level, the U.S. government will rely on states where cannabis is legal to enact tough laws.

If you can get by at an acceptable level of comfort without the stresses of work, won't more people be tempted to forgo hard work and content themselves with living off the government instead?

The solution would be for Congress to pass a «continuing resolution» that would fund the government at last year's level.

Examples could be found in other systems and at other levels of government.

He added, however, that «not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin,» reaffirming that the hacking happened at the highest levels of the Russian government.

«So what my co-author and I wanted to explore was exactly what the impact was of this introduction of withholding that happened from 1948 - 1976 at the state level on income tax collections, and the kinds of revenues that are being raised by state governments as a result.»

But when it comes to the highest - paid public employees within each U.S. state, the search isn't made easy for watchdogs, even in an era of increasing transparency at the level of state government.

I also made clear that while I won't be participating in the Forum, BlackRock will continue to engage on issues of public policy with governments at all levels and around the world.