Sentences with phrase «business minister who»

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Now, thanks to tough new mortgage lending and insurance rules announced by federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau in October, some analysts predict that so - called «shadow banking» firms, which operate largely outside the purview of regulators, will see a surge of fresh business from frustrated homebuyers who can't get conventional loans.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau begins a visit to China for talks with government and business leaders, he may want to consider the opinions of young Canadians who will play such an integral part in Canada's future, and its pivot to Asia.

Now, so too has the academic who advised our federal minister of finance that it would be a smart idea to change the 40 - year - old rules that govern Canada's small businesses, with a mere 75 - day «consultation» process, in the dog days of summer.

«This is a very complex piece of business,» says former prime minister Brian Mulroney, who negotiated the original Canada-U.S. free - trade agreement and later fought to secure Canada's place at the NAFTA table.

«The difference between the previous government and our government is that our prime minister recognizes the need that more can be done,» said Government House leader Bardish Chagger, who as small business minister signed off on a $ 69,625 relocation claim by one staffer in her office.

Mr. Trudeau visited Washington on Monday with a cadre of cabinet ministers and several female business executives who participated in a roundtable on women entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Morneau argued the reforms were designed to ensure they targeted wealthy individuals who have used the incorporation of small businesses to gain what the government maintained was an unfair tax advantage.

Senators — who began work on this report with the endorsement of the federal finance minister — recommend the government delay implementing any proposed changes for at least a year so that private corporations have the time to understand the impact these will have on their business.

Hossein Askari, a business professor at George Washington University and a one - time adviser to a former Saudi minister of finance, said the crackdown was «not just to get rid of people who are threats» but also to address the country's financial issues.

Here we are in the realm of speculation, of course, but we can say this at least: no preacher who knows his business and who is aware of «the wideness of God's mercy» can dare to talk as if only those who have visibly and expressly professed Christian faith are the concern of a deity whose «nature and name» is Love, Thus the preaching of the ordained minister must necessarily err, if it errs at all, on the side of generosity and charity.

During the most recent Sino - Dutch economic and trade talks, Hein Schumacher, CEO of FrieslandCampina, who took office this January, as a member of the Dutch business delegation, accompanied Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to visit China and had a friendly meeting with Chinese media.

I have met with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills minister Mark Prisk, who appeared sympathetic to the arguments for sector - specific support for the industry.

James Harding's Alpha Dogs: How Spin Became a Global Business (Atlantic Books, # 22.00) is about the highly successful Sawyer Miller Group of spin doctors who worked for politicians and corporate leaders, and included at one time Mark Malloch Brown, now a foreign office minister.

Our excellent regional minister who acted as a catalyst and provided a link between business leaders, local and regional bodies and central government has also gone.

The prime minister also faced questions on Europe from opposition backbenchers, including the DUP's Nigel Dodds who repeated calls for a referendum and former business minister Pat McFadden.

In these circumstances it does not fall to the Queen to decide who shall be First Minister, or in Ireland to the President; under their constitutions it falls to the newly elected parliament, whose first business (after election of a presiding officer) is to elect the head of the new government.

The clash between Labour's last prime minister and Mr Darling, who eventually held VAT at 17.5 % in his pre-election Budget, was revealed in former business secretary Peter Mandelson's memoirs, The Third Man.

Instead of the Queen having to decide who should be Prime Minister before parliament meets, the first business of a newly elected House of Commons should be to select the Prime Minister, who would then be formally appointed by the Queen.

John Hayes will be replaced at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) by the business minister Michael Fallon, who will straddle the business department while taking on some of his predecessor's responsibilities.»

These reservations are shared widely in the Liberal Democrat Party, and have given rise to separate reports that Business Secretary, Vince Cable, who is a former member of the Labour Party, was deeply unhappy at the time of the deal being struck and made last ditch appeals to outgoing Prime Minister Gordon Brown in an attempt to strike a Coalition deal with Labour.

The Conservative Party co-chairman Baroness Warsi has written to the Prime Minister explaining why her business relationship with Abid Hussain, a community activist who helped organise her official trip to Pakistan, was not declared.

«Mr. Olorunsola who has been in the industry for 31 years has served as Strategic Business Adviser to the Minister of Petroleum Resources (2008 - 2009); Manager, Opportunity Delivery and Studies Centre at Shell; Reserves and Technology Manager (Africa), Shell (E&P) International, Netherlands; Business Interface Manager (Russia), Shell Technology (E&P) International, Netherlands; and Petroleum Engineering Manager, Shell Nigeria.

Finally, Nick Hurd, the Cabinet Office MInister, spoke for the Government at the end of the debate: I really believe that we have barely scratched the surface of what can be achieved in this country if we strike a more effective and balanced partnership between government, business and civil society, including active citizens in our communities who want to get more involved.

Nick Bourne (right), who leads the Conservatives in the Assembly, received a rather tepid response from First Minister Rhodri Morgan about business:

Speaking in the House of Lords during the second reading of the trade union bill on Monday, Labour's Lord Mendelsohn, who is a shadow business minister, said the proposed legislation was a «clear attempt to defenestrate the Labour party's finances», describing it as «extraordinarily partisan, vindictive and selective».

DC There needs to be adequate training for ministers and special advisers who have been given quasi-judicial authority for business decisions.

Mandelson reveals that Tony Blair, who was scrupulously loyal to Brown in public after his resignation as prime minister in June 2007, had severe doubts about his successor and at one point urged the former business secretary not to block a challenge.

Woodward's attempt to present the concern as an issue troubling only a minority of MPs was followed by Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, seen as Brown's deputy prime minister in all but name, who issued a statement through a spokesman in which he stressed that the prime minister «continues to have the support of his colleagues».

Related Tory policies would see a doubling of the time period in which minister can not lobby government from one to two years, and a re-writing of the ministerial code so that any ex-minister who ignores guidance issued by the advisory committee on business appointments will lose some or all of their ministerial pension.

She said: «As a dedicated supporter of British business, who has spent years raising business issues from the outside, Lord Jones has said on many occasions how delighted he was to join the government as trade and investment minister, working as part of a successful team focused on maintaining the stability and competitiveness of the British economy.

@EmmaBarnett finds out that the Minister for Small Business, @AndrewGriffiths, who is being interviewed to promote shared parental leave - can't take shared parental leave himself, because he's a mMinister for Small Business, @AndrewGriffiths, who is being interviewed to promote shared parental leave - can't take shared parental leave himself, because he's a ministerminister.

Margot James, who is minister for small businesses and is responsible for corporate responsibility, said: «Toby Young is worthy of his appointment but it is a mistake for him to belittle sexist comments by labelling them «politically incorrect», a term frequently used to dismiss unacceptable comments about, and behaviour towards, women and minorities.»

The Minority Chief whip provided a document signed by the deputy Minister for Trade and Industry Carlos Ahenkora dated 23rd October 2017, demanding Business executives who would want to sit in a round table with the president and have exclusive access to pay US$ 100,000

The work and pensions secretary made his first public pitch to become prime minister with the business secretary, Sajid Javid, by his side at an awkward event that began half an hour late and at which Crabb tried to call on journalists who were not present to ask questions.

But of the changes, the most notable are Michael Gove as justice secretary (as previously announced), Sajid Javid — who many have billed to be Cameron's successor - as business secretary, John Whittingdale as culture secretary, Tina Stowell as leader of the House of Lords, Anna Soubry as minister for small business, Amber Rudd as energy secretary, and Priti Patel as minister for employment.

The leading Lib Dem is Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, who is second on 5.28, behind the Prime Minister on 5.63.

May I suggest that it would be much better to provide a whole week of Back - Bench business, so that all the matters that I am sure Government Members would like to debate, such as why the European Commission is demanding an increase of 7 % in its budget, and all the issues that Opposition Members would like to discuss, such as the double - dip recession, can be put not only to Ministers, but to the Prime Minister, who will be avoiding Prime Minister's questions for another two weeks?

The former business secretary's account of New Labour's time in power were seized upon at prime minister's questions in the Commons yesterday by David Cameron, who mocked Labour for its «shambolic» time in government.

The small business minister, Margot James, told Newsnight: «There are some ex-cabinet ministers or ex-ministers who are extremely embittered individuals who just want to get their own back — on the fact that they don't feel recognised and, you know, life is full of that, you have to move on, keep going and disregard it.

The former PR company owner, who became MP for Stourbridge in 2010, moves from number three at the business department to become a minister of state at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

But pro-EU former business minister Anna Soubry urged Mrs May to «see off these ideologues who are blighting our party and blighting the Brexit process».

Picking up the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) made, I wonder whether the Minister agrees with her new noble Friend Lord Sugar, the Prime Minister's enterprise tsar, who said that those small businesses that are trying to seek credit are merely moaners and living in Disneyland?

Former Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kwadwo Kyeremanten, who made this known at the party's manifesto launch at the Accra International Trade Fair Centre in Accra, said, «the NPP will pursue aggressive industrialization based on value addition; provide tax and related incentives for manufacturing businesses; investing in skills training and apprenticeship, as well as providing resources for small businesses and start - ups to emerge and flourish.»

Labour's Jack Straw, who served as both home secretary and justice secretary and attempted his own reforms of the Lords when in government, urged the prime minister to consider calling a pre-legislative referendum to avoid a «trainwreck» to Commons business in light of the fact that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were «divided on this issue».

Miliband's opponents, however, want to paint him as tough on the causes of big business — a prospective Prime Minister who will send investors fleeing these shores.

Prime Minister May, who commended President Buhari for the much he has been doing on improving trade and business for Nigeria, noted that it was also time to boost intra-Commonwealth