Sentences with phrase «conservative less government»
I am a conservative less government is better.
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In spite of a hazy policy climate in Canada — the Conservative government seems committed to a more restrictive policy on marijuana, not less — there is an ever more visible grey market in Canada catering to cannabis users.
Many governments, businesses and social organizations rely on the data, and opposition groups argue the Conservatives are attempting to influence future public policy decisions since low - income earners and immigrants will be less likely to fill out a voluntary form.
In April, The New York Times» Amy Chozick, in an article titled «Conservative Koch Brothers Turning Focus to Newspapers,» reported that the billionaire industrialists» expressed interest in the Tribune Co. papers was part of a «three - pronged, 10 - year strategy to shift the country toward a smaller government with less regulation and taxes» — with the third prong being controlling media through media investments.
The Conservative government is ideologically committed to lower taxes, less spending, balanced budgets, and smaller government.
Less information is now provided to the public in budgets than under previous Liberal and Conservative governments; the authority of Parliament over government spending has been weakened; the understanding of Canadians as to what the government is actually planning to do in the budget has been eroded.
From quarters such as the conservative Fraser Institute, we hear that government is to blame for intruding into the market, and so less regulation is the cure.
He praised the Conservative government's use of other tools, especially tightening mortgage insurance rules no less than four times, to encourage sensible borrowing.
In the year since Scheer took over, the Conservatives have gradually reversed to the less - than - sunny tone that was a defining feature of their recent governments.
The deficit figures of 2009 were a source of great controversy in the past, as the then outgoing government under conservative Kostas Karamanlis was accused of fraud by claiming the deficit to be much less than it actually was.
That in itself is new: interviews with several senior Conservatives suggest Harper's PMO is already less overbearing than the versions that endured constant minority government uncertainty, and that at least a few ministers have more latitude to take strong initiatives.
Here we go again — with less than two weeks to go before Canadians were to decide on their new government, the old Conservative government signed a tentative trade agreement that will (if ratified) have a profound impact on the future of Canada.
The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.
«If by a fiscal conservative, one means a person who wants to reduce the size of government through less government spending, lower taxes, balanced budgets and lower debt burdens, then Harper is clearly not a fiscal conservative.»
And if libertarians are afraid of conservatives» social positions, all they need to assuage their fears is a belief in their professed ideology — that small government will mean less involvement in people's personal affairs.
Remember, conservative means more freedom and less government control — or does it????
The new standards have met with grumbling from school nutrition officials who say they are difficult and expensive to follow, conservatives who say the government shouldn't be dictating what kids eat and — unsurprisingly — from some children who say the less - greasy food doesn't taste as good.
I am just pointing out what the record IS - and that it almost certainly does include making our economy less unequal than it would be under the policies of the previous Conservative government.
Conservatives are somewhat more likely to think the federal government is more restricted, and liberals are more likely to think the federal government is less restricted.
Elements in the platform of the SGP include that the government should be based on the word of God, the Belgic Confession, that «false religion» should be actively averted by the government, and that women can not be part of government (Note: this is a selection of some of the more unusual elements from their platform, which includes many more traditionally conservative points seen in platforms of other conservative parties and less orthodox christian - based parties in The Netherlands and other countries).
Labour's economic recordThe actions taken by the Labour government has ensured that during the biggest economic crisis in over 60 years, the number of York people claiming unemployment benefi t in December 2009 was still 45 per cent less than under the last Conservative recession.
Provided the Conservatives can indeed win the biggest share of seats (and they'll probably lose a few — but only a few — to UKIP, so will get a bit less than they might otherwise), then they'll get the first opportunity to put together a coalition, or at least a working minority government.
His main priority, some argue, should therefore be to appeal to previous Tory voters for whom the government's record has been less stoutly Conservative than they had hoped.
For although there are some signs of discontent on specific issues, overall Conservative MPs are currently less rebellious than their government colleagues, not more.
Conservative MPs are currently rebelling less often than Labour MPs (in around 11 % of divisions in the first three sessions of the 2005 parliament, less than half the rate on the government benches) and they are doing so in smaller numbers; although a slightly larger proportion of Conservative parliamentarians has rebelled compared to Labour, few have cast more than a handful of dissenting votes, and even the most rebellious would not find themselves high up the PLP's league table of troublemakers.
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in government have been less certain, holding a head - scratching meeting and pondering what they can get away with when hauled before the European court of human rights.
Less than a year ago, however, new revelations came out about NSA surveillance as a result of Edward Snowden's leaks, and this time the Right was deeply divided: establishment Republicans continued to support the surveillance practices of the NSA, whereas conservatives and the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party voiced concerns about whether the NSA was giving the government too much power.
Less than 18 months after being elected speaker, Paul Ryan has emerged from the defeat of the health care bill badly damaged, retaining a grip on the job but left to confront the realities of his failure — imperiling the odd - couple partnership that was supposed to sustain a new era of conservative government under unified Republican rule.
Conservatives assert such legislation prevents voter fraud and keeps ineligible people from participating, while liberals maintain such legislation disenfranchises poor people, immigrants and minorities, who are less likely to possess a government I.D.
Conservative backbenchers and party members alike want to see it retain its own distinct identity, and a sense that Liberal Democrat concerns are more important to Downing Street than their own helps to explain, at least in part, recent rebellions and discontent, and hence the Government working less effectively than it might.
The problem is the change in Conservative Party policy away from choice and less government won't help the poor and people who are dependent on their wages / salary to live.
The extra funding comes less than a week after the Conservatives accused the government of underestimating the scale of homelessness in England.
Less than a quarter of the Labour MPs that signed up to an early day motion expressing concern at the government's plans to reduce funding for equivalent or lower qualification (ELQ) degrees voted against the government in a Conservative - led motion last night.
Mr Cameron said that a Conservative government would focus on getting «more for less».
The reason for this odd answer is straightforward — back in 2009 it was Labour party policy to support post-office part - privatisation — I suspect Labour party members would be much less supportive now it is the Conservative / Lib Dem coalition government doing it!
Lady Hanham, Conservative home affairs spokesman, said the government had shown «a worrying tendency» to introduce anti-terrorist legislation which could then be applied «perhaps inappropriately and in far less justifiable circumstances».
The measure passed unanimously despite pointed criticism from two rental property owners, including the county's Conservative Party chairman, who compared city government to the Titanic only with less entertainment.
«Bill McCollum has a record as a principled conservative leader who has always fought for lower taxes, less government and traditional values, and I'm proud to support him as Florida's next governor,» Romney said in a written statement Monday.
The Conservatives will «move towards that target» said the communities secretary about government plans to cut net migration to less than 100,000 per year by the general election.
It is a mere eight days since Ladbrokes was offering 10 - 1 odds against the Conservative majority government that was convincingly elected less than 48 hours later.
A further challenge could be the UK government, which has changed since the CASH campaign began: the current Conservative - led government tends to be less keen on regulation.
Likewise, conservatives with higher news media literacy were less likely to believe five conspiracy theories commonly associated with conservatives — among them that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., that global warming is a hoax, and that the 2010 health care law authorized government panels to make end - of - life decisions for people on Medicare.
The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).
Tax credits command support from a larger coalition of conservatives, free market advocates, and private schools than do vouchers, in large part for the same reason they are more legally viable: they are not government funds and pose less danger to the autonomy of private schools that accept them.
-- A growing number of affordable, long - range electric vehicles coming on the market — Ongoing policy - making commitment to those vehicles, even from a post-Brexit conservative UK government (the future is a little less certain on this side of the pond)-- Low cost, large - scale renewables and wide - spread energy storage — A wider range of non-car transportation options, including affordable, high - quality e-bikes — Internal combustion engines shall henceforth forever be known as the Suck - Squeeze - Bang - Fart engine
(Defining conservative as a belief in small and less intrusive government, as well as the American ideal of protection of individual liberty against any «group power».)
Note that the red line shows what Canada's emissions would be under an imaginary government that had even less climate - friendly policies than the current Conservative government.
When he entered government a year later, the Conservatives started to lay the groundwork for much less ambitious greenhouse gas reductions.
He writes that in his view, traditional conservatives «favor less federal government, as though state governments are benign.»
I say this because I suspect (but do not know) that the judiciary is less in favour of incarceration as a rule than governments of the current conservative bent.