Sentences with phrase «business minister ms»

Other Business ministers are questioned regularly at oral sessions like those for other departments.

The West Suffolk MP Matt Hancock is to attend Cabinet as Business Minister was a result of David Cameron's reshuffle.

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Bombardier builds the wings for the C - Series planes in Northern Ireland, and both Prime Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Theresa May are talking about stopping all business with Boeing.

For these sins he was demoted and has spent the past couple of years as the minister of state for small business.

The panel, established by the new Minister of Industry, Jim Prentice, was led by seasoned business executive L. «Red» Wilson.

«It would be a great gesture of goodwill for the prime minister to make ahead of negotiations but equally it's good for our businesses... This is what I hear about day in, day out,» he added, noting that the U.K. government could offer this to EU workers unilaterally despite having been rebuked earlier by the trading bloc in an attempt to agree a deal on this issue ahead of full Brexit negotiations.

With Finance Minister Bill Morneau set to deliver the budget on March 22, small business owners are still in the dark about what exactly the government has in store for them.

The World Bank is «wrong» about how hard it is to do business in Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn the country's prime minister has told CNBC.

The tax changes contemplated by the Minister are aimed mostly at incorporated small business owners, so any «unfairness» will be in the comparison of salary earners and small business owners, not different income classes.

«I congratulate all the companies selected to join the new accelerator facility which is now open for business,» Matt Hancock, minister of state for digital and culture, said in a statement.

«By clarifying the definition of what can be patented, we are giving New Zealand businesses more flexibility to adapt and improve existing inventions, while continuing to protect genuine innovations,» New Zealand's Commerce Minister Craig Foss said.

«And at the heart of these arrangements, there should be a clear double lock: A guarantee that there will be a period of implementation giving businesses and people alike the certainty that they will be able to prepare for the change; and a guarantee that this implementation period will be time - limited, giving everyone the certainty that this will not go on for ever,» the prime minister stated.

Speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in London, the British prime minister said «global growth is fragile.»

As arguably the country's top business lobbyist, he was asked by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to organize a summit for G20 business leaders on the eve of the political powwow.

More recently Schwartz has been making a bigger push into London, U.K.. It's been a challenging market, but he may have another big name to help shore up that part of the business: Nigel Wright, the prime minister's former chief of staff, is returning to Onex to spearhead that part of the business.

If you want me to speculate on specific detail, I'm not in a position to do that, only to say that ministers have met and listened to a large number of businesses over the last couple of months and we're quite clear on access being top of the list [of businesses» priorities].»

The scandal comes at a bad time for Japanese business as a whole, as prime minister Shinzo Abe is trying to drum up global investor confidence by touting improved corporate governance standards.

During one event attended by the prime minister that week, an investment seminar hosted by the Japan External Trade Organization and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry at the Pierre Hotel, Dr. Ziad Haider, special representative for commercial and business affairs at the US Department of State said, «Secretary Kerry... likes to say that foreign policy is economic policy, and in saying that he's referring to that interplay between foreign policy, foreign affairs, economic issues, and it's certainly true with bilateral diplomatic relations, as well.»

Among the entourage of government officials and prominent business leaders who accompanied Prime Minister Stephen Harper on an early - August trade mission to Brazil was the chief executive officer of a relatively obscure Canadian company called Weatherhaven.

As Canadian Business went to press, it was widely expected that federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's March 29 budget would include an announcement that the cutoff for Old Age Security (OAS) will be raised, which could compel millions of Canadians to delay their golden years.

There's a school of thought around Parliament Hill that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau have stumbled unwittingly into the battle now raging over their proposal to seriously tighten up the rules on small - business taxation.

Bombardier builds the wings for the CSeries planes in Northern Ireland, and both Prime Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Theresa May are talking about stopping all business with Boeing.

FEDERAL Small Business Minister Nick Sherry is asking small business operators to respond to an options paper to identify gaps in the way small businesses resolve disputes with other busBusiness Minister Nick Sherry is asking small business operators to respond to an options paper to identify gaps in the way small businesses resolve disputes with other busbusiness operators to respond to an options paper to identify gaps in the way small businesses resolve disputes with other businesses.

«Sure, we can't pick up the German system and transplant it to Canada — that would be ridiculous,» the employment minister said in a telephone interview, adding it was a «lazy point of view» to be dismissive of the long - established German partnership among government, schools and business.

The Minister of Finance made sure his billion dollar family business, Morneau Shepell is sheltered from any of the changes.»

(BMO's recent attempts to juice its domestic business by offering a cut - rate 2.99 % mortgage was met with a stern rebuke by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.)

Previously, Cléroux was the Quebec Assistant Deputy Minister for Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade, responsible for the implementation of economic policies and programs to support small and medium - sized businesses and encourage entrepreneurship.

The minister has been leading a 30 - member delegation of Canadian politicians from five provinces, along with business and labour union representatives, on a trip to Germany and Great Britain to learn about their apprenticeship programs.

All reforms are now on the table and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and Business Secretary Vince Cable have weighed in.

Finance Minister Carole James says only five per cent of businesses will be paying the full tax rate and those covering the existing health premiums for their employees will see savings as the fees are cut in half and then eliminated.

That question has been the subject of a fiery debate across Canada ever since federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau proposed changes to small business tax rules.

LONDON — International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde wanted to use European legislation to force financial business from London to Paris when she was the French finance minister, according to a senior British MEP.

Ontario's economic development minister said the province has already cut the small business tax rate to help ease the transition to a higher minimum wage, but said Ford's plan favours those who are already among the most profitable in the province.

«Our government's priority is to ensure that Ontario businesses and workers have access to other markets and are treated fairly when operating within those markets.,» International Trade Minister Michael Chan said in a statement.

As CIBC vice-chair Jim Prentice, a former federal environment minister, noted at a business forum in Lake Louise, Alta., in November, «a lot of assumptions have been based on the seemingly insatiable appetite of the United States for energy.

It is the turn of finance ministers and business leaders to figure that out.

Paul Boothe, a former senior public servant who now is a professor at the University of Western Ontario's Ivey Business School, chastised «amateur» deputy ministers for making a fuss over a contingency that amounts to a sliver of the total budget.

Vivek Dehejia of the IDFC Institute says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's visit to India has been long on photo opportunities, but short on trade and business deals.

Our colleagues at Maclean's will be hosting an exclusive town hall with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau next Wednesday, December 16, and we want to know what Canadian Business readers would ask the PM.

Trump's first call with the Vietnamese prime minister was arranged by Marc Kasowitz, a Trump personal lawyer who has another client with business interests in Vietnam, ProPublica reports in the «Trump, Inc.» podcast.

THE world's first fully dedicated Olympic business venue, the Business Club Australia business centre, in Sydney's Darling Harbour, has been opened by Minister for Trade Mark Vaile.Mr Vaile said the centre would be the central point from which business venue, the Business Club Australia business centre, in Sydney's Darling Harbour, has been opened by Minister for Trade Mark Vaile.Mr Vaile said the centre would be the central point from which Business Club Australia business centre, in Sydney's Darling Harbour, has been opened by Minister for Trade Mark Vaile.Mr Vaile said the centre would be the central point from which business centre, in Sydney's Darling Harbour, has been opened by Minister for Trade Mark Vaile.Mr Vaile said the centre would be the central point from which Austr...

TORONTO — A shortage of skilled workers is the biggest challenge many Canadian businesses face today, Employment Minister Jason Kenney told a skills summit Wednesday, warning it could also jeopardize Canada's economic development in the future.

The 49 - year old Clement has a prominent place in Stephen Harper's government; he is arguably the most ambitious industry minister in a decade, pursuing new copyright legislation, anti-spam legislation, strategies to improve Canada's online business acumen and exploring more foreign investment in the wireless sector.

Defence Minister Jason Kenney chimed in via Twitter: «Small business are the heroes of our economy, but J Trudeau says «a large percentage» are just tax dodges for the rich.»

More impressively, Minister Emerson told CEOs that, as long as they were getting back 80 per cent of their money, it was none of their business what would happen to the rest.

• Justin Trudeau's proposal to eliminate loopholes in the small business tax is a modest step in the direction of tax fairness and Finance Minister Bill Morneau is, in many ways, an ideal spear - carrier for reform.

-- Justin Trudeau's proposal to eliminate loopholes in the small business tax is a modest step in the direction of tax fairness and Finance Minister Bill Morneau is, in many ways, an ideal spear - carrier for reform.

«It's obviously a rapidly changing economic environment we're finding ourselves in,» said Jock Finlayson, vice-president of the Business Council of B.C. and an advisor to the finance minister through the B.C. Economic Forecast Council.

Many analysts are referring to this as the «Modi effect,» in honor of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, elected two years ago on promises to reinvigorate business growth by cutting red tape and increasing infrastructure spending.

«There's a pretty strong consensus among the premiers and the prime minister that probably the best way to do that is to get in front of as many people as we can to describe how much the relationship with Canadian business actually benefits American business.»