Sentences with phrase «deputy labour minister»
«In an attempt to neutralize this «threat,» the Canadian government, based on a report by then - Deputy Labour Minister, W. L. Mackenzie King, enacted the Opium Act in 1908, which was the first attempt to criminalize a narcotic in Canada,» wrote Spies in R. v. Ramos.
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Moderator: Dr. Robert Campbell, President, Mount Allison University Panel: Dr. Alaa Abd - El - Aziz, President, University of Prince Edward Island Saeed El - Darahali, President and CEO, SimplyCast and Member, One Nova Scotia coalition Charles Ayles, Assistant Deputy Minister, Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour, Population Growth Division, Government of New Brunswick
He served 11 years as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Bankers Association and prior to that he spent 25 years in the federal public service and was Deputy Minister of Labour, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agri - Food Canada.
Ex-deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, Labour MP Chris Bryant, ex-Scotland Yard deputy assistant commissioner Brian Paddick and others brought forward the judicial review, which today concluded the failure to notify victims was unlawful.
Last night, Labour MPs gathered around to support the deputy prime minister, who reportedly described the Bush administration's attitude to the Middle East and the roadmap in particular as «crap».
Labour police and crime commissioner Dr Alan Billings has now made it clear that he is unimpressed with the former deputy prime minister's tone.
In the meantime, the deputy prime minister will couple his assault on Labour with that repetition of the coalition's austerity defence.
«What Nick will need to do as deputy prime minister is to show what a difference the Liberal Democrats have made and why a majority for either Conservatives or Labour at the election would be a disaster,» blog Lib Dem Voice quoted him as saying.
«The deputy prime minister, prime minister and others have tried to suggest that the bonus framework was set by the last Labour government which is simply untrue.
She is accompanied by the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection Nana Oye Lithur and Deputy Minister for Employment and Labour Relations.
In a powerful speech in January 2011 the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, pledged that the new Government would «restore the hard - won liberties that we in Britain hold so dear» and which under Labour had been «undermined, eroded, lost».
Key figures present included Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, former foreign secretary William Hague, Labour leader Ed Miliband and Metropolitan Police commander Sir Bernard Hogan - Howe.
He was appointed Chief Whip of the Labour Group and a Deputy Welsh Minister for Assembly Business in the Third Assembly of the Welsh Assembly Government (31 May 2007).
In 2007, Blair resigned as Prime Minister after ten years and John Prescott resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Labour Leader.
The extraordinary poll will put pressure on the Deputy Prime Minister, who opened his party conference in Glasgow yesterday, to start distancing himself from the Conservatives and open talks with senior Labour figures.»
[32] On 28 June 2007, after she became Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Brown was appointed Prime Minister, Harman joined Brown's Cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Privy Seal and Minister for Women and Equality, and was also given the title of Labour Party Chair.
During his summing - up speech in Thursday's debate, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was asked by Labour MP Andrew Gwynne to condemn the behaviour of No 10 officials who were reported as having said that Miliband was «giving succour» to the Assad regime by refusing to back the government over its plan for military action.
Recall, that the Senate had on May 3rd confirmed the new ministers, Stephen Ocheni (Kogi) and Suleiman Hassan (Gombe) to replace the late Minister of State for Labour, Mr. James Ocholi (SAN), who died in an accident on March 6, 2016; and Amina Mohammed, who was recently appointed as the Deputy Secretary - General of the United Nations.
A statement by Samuel Olowookere, Deputy Director (Press), on behalf of the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Senator Chris Ngige, said, «following due deliberation on the issue, the government resolved with the Federation of Trade Unions as follows That the government will expedite action on the composition of the minimum wage review committee and the committee is expected to complete its assignment and submit its report within six months of its constitution.
Tom Watson, the deputy Labour leader, said Cameron should let his ministers act freely or sack them.
In the final week of the election, the group says 42.2 % of Facebook users in Canterbury viewed its videos, while in Sheffield Hallam, where the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was unceremoniously ejected by a Labour candidate, the percentage was 55.9 %.
Ed Miliband has refused to confirm that Harman would be his deputy prime minister in the event of a Labour victory, but it is what she expects.
However, you have to wonder what the role of a deputy prime minister would be in a Labour government.
John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, told the BBC that he was «not happy» he found out about the millions loaned to the Labour Party by reading it in the papers but insisted the loans would later appear in the party's audited accounts.
Perhaps because so many Labour MPs feel betrayed by a party they saw as their natural ally, they launch much more anger towards the Deputy Prime Minister than they do towards David Cameron.
She retained the position of Deputy Minister for Social Services when the coalition government of Labour and Plaid Cymru was announced on 19 July.
The former Deputy Minister for Employment and Labour Relations said the demonstration would happen because he believes that former President John Mahama is the obvious choice for the opposition NDC in the 2020 Presidential race.
Harriet Harman, women's minister and Labour's deputy leader, re-opened the prostitution debate yesterday by backing a total ban on prostitution, which she argued would reduce the demand for trafficked women.
With jobs and pensions standing out as the key areas of debate, Labour sent former deputy prime minister John Prescott, who has fashioned himself into a campaigning machine since leaving the Commons, to the constituency.
This week's figures showed youth unemployment has risen to 1,042,000, but deputy prime minister Nick Clegg told MPs in prime minister's questions this Wednesday that youth unemployment had risen by 40 % under Labour.
Labour's former deputy prime minister said he would stand for the job, overseeing the work of Humberside police, in elections set for this November.
Seeing him continue afterwards is another matter, but the deputy prime minister used his speech to lay the mental groundwork for his remaining in power - even with Labour.
Fellow Tory MP Dominic Raab, a former justice minister, added: «The public will be shocked to learn that Labour's deputy leader in Brussels is telling the EU it doesn't need to respect the referendum result, and is manoeuvring to engineer its reversal.
A visibly angry Deputy Prime Minister told Chris Bryant, Labour's shadow minister for constitutional reform, that his comments were «outrageous» and «deeply offensive to people who have witnessed ethnic cleansingMinister told Chris Bryant, Labour's shadow minister for constitutional reform, that his comments were «outrageous» and «deeply offensive to people who have witnessed ethnic cleansingminister for constitutional reform, that his comments were «outrageous» and «deeply offensive to people who have witnessed ethnic cleansing».
The former Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, spoke out about the need for the government to be sensitive about huge societal divisions as he was defeated by Labour in Sheffield Hallam.
Labour accused Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, of «sociologically cleansing» poorer citizens out of London through the policy, which was announced last week as part of the spending review.
The slots of Kogi and Gombe states in the federal cabinet had been vacant following the death of the Minister of State for Labour, Mr. James Ocholi (SAN), in an accident on March 6, 2016; and the appointment of former Minister of the Environment, Amina Mohammed, as the Deputy Secretary - General of the United Nations.
In a highly unusual move, the Tory former education secretary Nicky Morgan joins forces with her previous Labour shadow Lucy Powell and the Liberal Democrat former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to condemn the plans as damaging to social mobility, ideologically driven and divisive.
Meanwhile, Labour leader Ed Miliband and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg have called for new media ownership rules to prevent individuals becoming too powerful.
Nick Clegg, the former party leader and Deputy Prime Minister, lost his seat to Labour newcomer Jared O'Mara in Sheffield Hallam.
• Paul Tucker, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, has told MPs that Labour ministers did not try to get him to get Barclays to lower its Libor rates.
The delegations have included former Labour Minister for Education and Minister for the Arts, Baroness Tessa Blackstone, Labour's current Shadow Minister for Early Years, Tracy Brabin, and former Secretary of State for Scotland, former Government Deputy Chief Whip and Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael.
In this Labour - led government Michael German was Deputy Minister whilst Jenny Randerson also held a ministerial post.
During First Minister's Questions this afternoon, Kirsty Williams, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, called on the Welsh Labour Government to consider introducing free school meals for all year one and year two primary pupils as has been announced in England by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
Peter served as a Deputy Minister in the Labour - Lib Dem Partnership Government.
The former Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, departing Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and SNP deputy leader John Swinney also attended, sitting far back in the church to allow space for family and close friends in pews closer to the altar.
After the resignation of Peter Mandelson, the Deputy Prime Minister issued a coded call for Mr Blair to tone down his revolutionary zeal when he said that the New Labour project should go no further than Labour's manifesto.
Deputy prime minister's argument shows shortfall is widening gulf between Labour and Lib Dem leadership
Since 2007 he has been deputy first minister working in coalition with Labour.
Their alleged victims include former New Labour minister Tessa Jowell and her estranged husband David Mills, former deputy prime minister John Prescott and former Lib Dem frontbencher Mark Oaten.