Sentences with phrase «big issues the government»

«There are two big issues the government is going to have to issue guidance on and I suspect it's quite likely that guidance will at some point be debated in the courts,» says Martin Ignasiak, a partner with the environment, regulatory, and aboriginal group at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Calgary.

Not exact matches

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Manley contends the explosion in sovereign debt caused by all the stimulus spending over the past two years is the biggest issue facing both the Canadian government and the world's other major economies.

In addition, they argued, the curve will likely steepen as the U.S. government runs a bigger deficit and issues more debt, they said.

The onus is now on the federal government to fix the bigger issue, which is a lack of competition between big players.

In 2013, there were some issues that concerned investors — namely weakness in emerging markets and the U.S. federal government, which is a big client.

The role of city governments in implementing the NUA was one of the big issues discussed at Habitat III.

On this issue among others — like funding the government, raising the federal borrowing limit and financing highways — such business groups have found themselves at odds with traditional Republican allies who increasingly reflect a new populist strain of conservatism in the party that is often hostile toward big business.

This is a big, complex issue that requires a focussed national housing plan by senior government, to include new supply of affordable social housing.

«The [issue with] bitcoin was always, to me, what the governments are going to feel about bitcoin when it gets really big,» said Dimon.

Although I don't pretend to understand all the «ins & outs» of banking, public financing, etc., it seems to me to be self - evident that if Canadian governments at all levels were able to borrow, at low or preferably no interest rates, to finance infrastructure projects and other issues such as health care and education, rather than indebting Canadians in perpetuity in order to pay big interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadiabig interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary CanadiaBig Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadians.

But Stamos» biggest issues with Yahoo likely came down to government snooping.

PACs have become a big issue in Alberta politics since 2015, when the New Democratic Party government banned corporate and union donations to political parties as their first piece of legislation.

As I argued when the second quarter GDP numbers confirmed the recession, the big issue is not whether GDP growth is slightly positive or slightly negative. The big issue is why it has been so close to zero in the first place. The July GDP numbers do not change that analysis. And they do not change the empirical fact that the Harper government's overall economic record — even before this year's downturn — is uniquely weak, on both historical and international criteria.

The media follows this because there are bigger issues at play like our rights being stolen by the government, and they need distractions for us.

The real issue with big government is its misuse and when it's used to target and help a specific group of people instead of leveling the playing field.

«Smaller government and no abortion are the two big issues for me.»

This issue becomes vividly evident in the contest between «big business» and «organized labor,» and the effort of both to secure government backing for their interests.

The other two branches of government have no business in the issue; they need to be concerned with the bigger picture; foreign policies and matters, national economy, and disagreements between states on matters that affect national politics.

Liberals have deluded themselves into thinking that the only way to prove someone «cares» about any important issue is to support a big government solution.

Don't forget that while he was on the earth Christ's biggest issue was not with the Roman government or with non-believers, but with the religious establishment.

My last point and Im out... Throughout our great nations history... we always found a way to fight through national issues and come up with solutions... Giving the problems we have now to people in the 50's and 60's... and they may actually come up with a solution... if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto...

A MOMENT OF TRUTH The biggest moral issue for Catholics in English politics during this year of grace 2008 will surely, in the perspective of history, turn out to have been the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, introduced into Parliament by the Government in November, with the intention that it will become law early in 2009.

«Obviously it is a policy issue for governments to think about, but as a person who would be part of an organisation that would have to make that decision, I think it's too big a decision for a regulator to make.»

They are big issues, which he has already taken up with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and her various Labor government predecessors, including Kevin Rudd.

Despite many of the big players in the cocoa and chocolate supply chain working on sustainability issues like trying to eradicate child labor and stopping environmental damage like deforestation, the efforts of companies and governments have very little influence, according to the Cocoa Barometer 2018.

I think the bigger issue is our «starve the government» mentality that has every agency (or in this case, school food program) supporting itself.

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

«Nana Addo thinks the process is flawed... and was wrong for government to accept them,» Hamid said on Citi FM's Big Issue Saturday.

It is the big issue, made doubly fascinating by the government's evident cluelessness about the way in which it should proceed.

In the US, it means support for completely opposite «tax - and - spend» «big government» policies (combined with social issues views based on secularism and sexual expressionism).

«The priority for member states» governments now is to focus on how the EU can move forward to tackle the big issues such as driving up employment, combating climate change and protecting consumers.»

In terms of his own approach to government Cameron seems to have decided that while the «big vision» stuff is fine in theory, in practise he's going to concentrate on more bread and butter issues.

First off, Mr. Casely Hayford noted on The Big Issue that it was «very unlikely that the government, in its isolationist's view will go and say we want to extend the programme.»

Warning the Liberal Democrats must break the «stifling grip of the two - party system,» he said he «refused to believe the only alternative to a clapped out Labour government is a Conservative party which has no answers to the big issues.»

Among the big losers so far are environmental campaigners, whose arguments and protests about air quality, pollution and environmental issues appear to have been brushed aside by the Government.

Speaking on Citi FM's news analysis program, The Big Issue, the New Patriotic Party MP questioned why government would deliberately single out the violence in the NPP instead of providing adequate security in the...

Making the suggestion on Citi FM's news analysis programme, The Big Issue on Saturday, Mr. Casely - Hayford said, the bond will enable government solve the teething challenges that have bedeviled the programme since its implementation.

The government has rightly identified the price of housing as one of the biggest issues facing people up and down the country.

The issue prompted the coalition government's biggest defeat in the upper House in December 2010, after an amendment tabled by independent crossbencher Ilora Finlay won by 277 votes to 165.

The decisive shift in federal climate policy will have little impact on businesses: Shareholders and large state governments have already pushed big business to act on the issue.

The room, equipped with an I [HEART] NY poster of a lighthouse in twilight and a government - issued brown couch, used to belong to his new boss, David Paterson, who got a bigger space when he became governor.

John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, a government watchdog group, said that while there are likely no big «revelations» in the spreadsheet, the very fact that The Alt needed to obtain the information through a FOIL request — and that a comparable list can not be found on SUNY's central website — speaks to larger issues of transparency and accountability at the vast institution.

More than 90 percent of New Yorkers think corruption in government is a big issue, and polls show voters believe reform issues take priority over education.

Knowing what's going on in your own government seems to be a foreign concept in Washington, where Congressmen and women rely on interns and assistants to inform them on the «big issues» while not even bothering to try and get a handle on every issue.

When the issue of the economy does come up we are subjected to the big lie that we are in this mess because the last Labour government spent and borrowed too much.

Commenting on the development, Mr. Casley Hayford on Citi FM's News Analysis and Current Affairs Programme, The Big Issue wondered why government had not yet made any arrest in connection with the incident.

Libertarian Party Executive Director Carla Howell is quoted in the current issue of the New American which suggests that many Tea Party members remain unaware of Republican Mitt Romney's voting record (as well as that of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich)-- all Big Government:

Speaking on The Big Issue, the policy analyst cited the restricted spending in 2017 and increased budgetary allocations for 2018 as the reasons government will have to be wary of this year.

Ethics in government, big money political corruption, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's culpability, yea or nay on legislative pay raises, are all part of one big sticky ball of garbage with so many points of contact between individuals and issues it's impossible to tease them apart.