Sentences with phrase «by a liberal government»

The RRSP was introduced in 1957 by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent.

From the viewpoint of open government, 2002's Bill 66 is one of the most praiseworthy — if unheralded — of all measures implemented by the Liberal government.

The potential differences in procedural rights are part of sweeping changes in legislation introduced by the Liberal government on March 29.

It was as if the crash is just another business cycle downturn, not aggravated by any systemic financial flaws, but, if anything, by liberal government planners being too nice to poor people, by providing cheap mortgage credit to the uninitiated who could not quite handle the responsibility.

Although a small surplus was recorded in the first two months of 2017 - 18, monthly deficits are expected for most of the rest of the fiscal year, given the impact of the measures introduced by the Liberal Government since the election of 2015.

This webinar focuses on the proposed changes to small business taxation by the Liberal Government and how they will impact you.

A likely culprit is the various policy changes introduced by the liberal government in the package they introduce during their fight of the deficit.

The foreign buyers» tax was one of 16 measures by the Liberal government aimed at slowing increasingly unaffordable housing in the region.

That trading mentality is shared by the Liberal government, who has a history of supporting trade through the negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement to the World Trade Organization negotiations and is committed to debating the merits of the Trans - Pacific Partnership, the details of which were released in early November.

But policy decisions taken by the Liberal government also contributed to the long - term fiscal deterioration.

Back in 1911, the Parliament Act introduced by the Liberal government aimed to «substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution can not be immediately brought into operation».

Nick Clegg will next year outline plans for the most far - reaching changes to the House of Lords since landmark reforms 100 years ago by a Liberal government ended the upper house's ability to block Britain's annual budget.

Or, more specifically, how will changes being implemented by the Liberal government to the Child Tax Benefit, coupled with the changing thresholds for marginal income tax rates impact her benefit payments?

The Greenbelt, created by the Liberal government in 2005, «protects environmentally sensitive areas and productive farmlands from urban development and sprawl.»

The news release issued by the Liberal government, with its very brief biographical details of each appointee, was no different than in the past.

After continued pressure from Aboriginal communities for acknowledgement and compensation, the comprehensive Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) was agreed to in 2005 by the Liberal government, churches, the Assembly of First Nations and plaintiffs; and was ratified in 2006 by a new Conservative government.

Under new rules drawn up by the Liberal government and the Ontario Real Estate Board, real estate agents will no longer be allowed to tell a potential buyer about other offers — unless those bids are signed, sealed and delivered.

Not exact matches

The Liberal government will be consumed by the deal, as it already is today.

Premier Mark McGowan says his Government is giving «active» and «serious» consideration to introducing a bank tax after its $ 400 million gold royalty increase was torpedoed by the Liberal Party.

Germany's car sector is anxiously waiting to see what transport and environmental policies will be adopted by the new government, which is set to include both pro-business liberals and hard - line environmentalists.

The Liberal government's publicly stated goal is to have at least three LNG terminals up and running by 2020.

And it's possible the province will update their transportation laws since the outgoing Liberal government has pledged to legalize ride - sharing services by the end of the year.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, the Liberals are suggesting bring back a policy from the 1990s, one that avoided the unintended consequences of the current government proposal where firms receive benefits by firing workers.

She's rebuffed approaches by the Liberals, the Wildrose Party and the Alberta Party and is expected to be a big behind - the - scenes influencer in the post-Redford government.

The latest trigger for investors was a recent CBC report that the Liberal government would stick to its plan to table legislation for recreational marijuana production, distribution and use this spring, and have laws in effect by July 1, 2018.

The Liberals also reversed a decision by the previous government, allowing a maker of laser technology in Montreal called ITF Technologies to be purchased by a Hong Kong - based firm.

The 125 CEOs who participated in the survey were asked to compare a hypothetical majority government under Conservative leader Stephen Harper to one led by Liberal Stéphane Dion.

As far as some Canadian CEOs are concerned, the voting public made the right decision in electing another Conservative federal government over a Liberal one, according to a web poll conducted by COMPAS Inc..

Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

The Conservative government's first efforts to pass it in the last parliament were frustrated by its Liberal Democrat coalition partners, but the bill has been revived in a slightly watered - down version since the Conservatives won a majority in May's general elections.

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.

Tait's appointment is the latest in a series of moves the Liberal government has made at the public broadcaster that began in 2016, when it boosted funding to the CBC by $ 675 million over five years.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government says its new regulations to phase out power plants fired by coal and natural gas will cost more than $ 2.2 billion, but potentially save the country billions more in reduced health care costs.

Be it the Conservatives» call to cut $ 11 billion in government expenditures or the Liberals» plan to raise corporate taxes by 1.5 percentage points back to 2010 levels, these are issues of substance.

Far from being the «nation of innovators» so often touted by Justin Trudeau's Liberal government, the Bloomberg report is a stark reminder of one simple fact that negatively impacts a lot more than just jobs: our country is suffering from an innovation crisis, and it's getting worse every year.

Jagmeet Singh, meanwhile, waded into the impasse in Ottawa by proposing that the Trudeau Liberals work with the British Columbia government on a joint reference question to the Supreme Court of Canada, fast - tracking a resolution to what the federal NDP leader calls jurisdictional issues arising from B.C.'s objections to the project.

«It's a tactic that's been used in the past by other Liberal governments.»

He argued that the Liberal government has already improved transparency and accountability by including an item - by - item table in the budget.

TORONTO — Fitch Ratings downgraded Ontario's long - term debt rating Friday, highlighting «risks» on the path to the Liberal government's target of balancing the budget by 2017 - 18.

The Liberals have introduced changes as they try to fulfil their 2015 election promise to improve Parliament's financial processes by bringing more consistency and clarity when it comes to government accounting of how it spends public money.

Despite the Liberals» big margin in Canning, the government is taking nothing for granted as the by - election nears.

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Let's look at one of the first acts of the minority Harper government: the cancelling of a truly historic program announced and funded by the previous Liberal government: the national, universal child care program.

Certainly, the Liberal government benefitted from the actions taken by the Mulroney government to introduce the GST and to partially de-index the fiscal (tax and expenditure) system in 1984, but they did not increase taxes in 1995.

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After all, since 2006, your government has increased government debt by $ 150 billion, after falling by about $ 80 billion under the previous Liberal government.

Although the Fraser Report is right to criticize the overall budget policy of the Mulroney government, it is wrong to ignore the fact that actions taken by the Mulroney government did help the Liberal government in 1990s.

Promises to solve this foreign ownership data vacuum are welcomed by industry and policy stakeholders and if championed by the new Liberal government, will provide an essential step in the creation of appropriate policy responses.

The taxpayer subsidy was introduced by the former Liberal government in 2004, to compensate for the curtailing of corporate and union contributions.