Sentences with phrase «by the conservative government»

The federal budget delivered by the Conservative government on Jan. 27 earned high marks in a recent web poll of Canadian CEOs conducted by COMPAS Inc..

The program review» process was transpafrent and accountable, unlike the spending reviews undertaken by the Conservative government since 2010, and for whichthe government has refused to provide the information to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

These structural reforms, undertaken by the Conservative government, were of the longer - term nature, not designed to generate immediate large saving.

International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, named to cabinet a day before the finalized treaty was made public, reiterated that the Liberals believe in trade, but she was careful to note the deal was negotiated by the Conservative government.

In this steady but unglamorous growth environment, two politically - driven events dominated the quarter in the UK: the decision by the Conservative government to call a referendum on 23 June to determine whether the UK will remain in the European Union (EU) or leave, and the Budget on 16 March.

They would also scrap income splitting for families with children, another great tax break created by our Conservative government.

The first two were undertaken by the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney, the last two by the Liberals of Jean Chretien.

This motion would repeal income splitting as well as reduce contributions to the Tax Free Savings Account from $ 10,000 to $ 5,500, both implemented by the Conservative government.

«The Liberal Party agrees that it is essential for Parliament to track down the $ 3.1 billion lost by this Conservative government, but equally, we must fix the way Ottawa spends money to ensure that this doesn't happen again.

It's welcomed by the Labour Party but set up by a Conservative government, so this is a cross-party moment.

Subsequently, the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution in Great Britain, headed by Sir John Wolfenden, was set up by the Conservative government in 1954.

It will be helpful if George Osborne immediately announces which tax cuts will be enacted by a Conservative government - afforded by the extra green taxation that David Cameron promised yesterday.

By the same token, the evidence of a national will to bring in proportional representation is one thing — but it will be more willingly accepted, especially by a Conservative government that shows little appetite for reform, if this change to the British Constitution comes through evolution rather than revolution.

«As a St John's blue light ambulance driver, Gillian has seen first - hand the extent of the crisis caused by this Conservative government, which has chosen to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest instead of our health service.

And if he doesn't, hon Members can rest assured that he and his colleagues will be replaced by a Conservative government utterly determined to introduce real welfare reform and get Britain working.»

In a follow up question Fraser Nelson said that rich people would not change their plans and move abroad if they knew that the 50p band would be repealed by a Conservative government.

Others have questioned whether Brokenshire's move is part of an effort by the Conservative government to protect the DUP, whom they rely on in parliament to get laws passed.

Following last year's controversy which saw the sacking of his predecessor Hugo Swire, Jeremy Hunt affirmed that free museum access would be protected by a Conservative government.

«Her successful collaboration with David Davis shows that she is more than capable of working with liberty - minded Conservatives; but, such is the importance of this area (which in reality is not a party political issue) that if Chakrabarti wished to sit as a cross-bencher, that should not stand as an obstacle to her appointment by a Conservative Government.

Labour has regularly claimed of late - Tim highlighted the matter earlier in the week - that pensioners would have all sorts of entitlements withdrawn by a Conservative Government - in the same way that Labour continually scare - mongered during the London Mayoral election in 2008 that Boris Johnson would remove the Freedom Pass from pensioners.

The emails, obtained through a court order by conservative government oversight group Judicial Watch, restarted conversations about the Democrat's ability to keep up a firewall between her family's interests and the federal government.

Field was reacting to a speech given on 6 August by Ian Macfarlane, a former peanut farmer who last fall was named minister for industry by the conservative government of Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

The opposition leader said that the proposals were a «poor attempt» by the conservative government to «duck their record» on education, which he said had «seen classes grow to the largest in Europe, teachers flocking to leave the profession as pay and conditions stagnate and a raft of corruption scandals at unaccountable Tory academies that have failed to deliver the promised improvements in standards».

If you haven't seen the all the ads touting the TFSA's value, here's a quick primer: the TFSA was introduced by the Conservative government in the last federal budget.

By the end of 2013, some 10.7 million Canadians had opened a TFSA, a savings vehicle introduced by the Conservative government in 2009 that allows money to grow inside tax - free with no income - tax hit on withdrawal.

Ezra Levant is a Canadian television and radio personality, conservative political activist, and author of Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the book that popularized the phrase «Ethical Oil,» which is now being used by the conservative government in Canada as justification for the expansion of the Athabasca tar sands.

However, further cuts to climate policies by the Conservative government in yesterday ’s

We do have low unemployment, but that's the result of the very well - run economy left to the previous Labor government by the conservative government before them in 2007 — the economic conditions that allowed us to ride out the GFC with little damage.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has promised, in the run up to the snap general election next month, that by a conservative government workers» rights would see a huge expansion, including a statutory right to leave for a relative's care, and to leave for a parent whose child had passed.

The Globe and Mail reported recently (November 12, 2011) that only 30 % of judges appointed by the Conservative government since 2006 have been women.

This was set at # 100,000 per person in April 2017 and will rise by # 25,000 each year to 2020, as part of a pledge set by the Conservative government in their election campaign.

The decision by the Conservative government to nix BHP Billiton Ltd.'s $ 38 - billion acquisition of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. effectively neuters shareholder rights in this country and handcuffs lawyers from rendering any meaningful advice under the Investment Canada Act.

Canadian courts have struck down several mandatory minimums passed by the Conservative government.

The problems associated with the consumer credit market were largely ignored by Conservative governments.

The Truth in Sentencing Act (Bill C - 25) enacted by the Conservative government in October 2009 did away with the notion that an accused person would typically receive two days» credit for each day spent in jail from the presiding judge.

Not exact matches

Several different CPP expansion plans were developed by policy experts, but in December 2013 the Conservative government shut down any further discussion of expansion.

If you missed the ad, put out by the conservative group Citizens Against Government Waste, no matter.

The conservative investments, such as government bonds, favoured by baby boomers and retirees are producing virtually nothing, as today's low rates demolish returns.

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.

Separately, some conservative Republicans in Congress are hoping to thwart Obama's immigration action by tying it to a must - pass government spending bill, although the Republican leadership wants to avert a government shutdown over the issue.

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..

Trump's comments about Lee and Washington echo an email one of his senior legal advisors forwarded to government officials and conservative media claiming that the Black Lives Matter movement has been «infiltrated by terrorist groups.»

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.

Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre called the PBO's findings «damaging» for the government, citing the impact of larger deficits, higher debt payments and a carbon tax that he says will erase at least $ 10 billion per year from the national economy by 2022.

The minister defended his recent remarks on the Conservative government's income - splitting pledge by citing a famous American Democratic senator.

«Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's said.

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.

Gerard Lyons — one of the few prominent economists to back leaving the EU, and a co-founder of the Economists for Brexit group — told an audience at the Brexit & Global Expansion Summit in London on Monday that by failing to prepare plans for what might happen in the event that Britain voted to leave, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne left both the new Conservative government and the British people high and dry.

Described by conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer as, perhaps, «the most annotated suicide note in history,» for its thoroughness and 37 footnotes, it pretty much guarantees a debate over two visions for the role of government in America.

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.