Sentences with phrase «election budgets of»

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Morneau might already be listening, as his budget «deferred» an election promise to drop the rate of tax small - and - medium - sized businesses pay on their income to 9 % from 10.5 %.

Speaking at the first Prime Minister's Questions since the general election earlier this month, Corbyn said years of Conservative government cuts to local authority budgets had put public safety at jeopardy and had played a part in the fire that destroyed a tower block in Kensington, west London earlier this month, killing at least 79 people.

ANALYSIS: The recent state budget did little to convince voters the Barnett government is on the right track ahead of the 2017 election.

One month before the 2016 election, the IRA was reportedly operating on a monthly budget of at least $ 1.25 million.

A notorious Russian «troll factory» had a $ 1.25 million budget in the run - up to the 2016 presidential election to interfere in the US political system, according to charges filed by the Department of Justice.

That pushes the real budget showdown into 2012, an election year not only for the executive branch but for a third of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives.

Many of these companies already enjoyed a bump in share prices when the Liberals won the election, and again after the budget announcement, but Nazir thinks the real gains will come once the extra cash starts showing up on balance sheets.

«The group knows that it can do some candidate election work, but that such work can't be its primary activity — i.e., it has to spend more than half of its budget on non-candidate-election work,» Ryan told The Daily Beast when provided documentation about the organization.

The Prime Minister, in his recent comments about balancing the budget before the next election, also appears to agree with PBO and not his Minister of Finance..

When it was all over, the tally of alleged wrongdoing cited here today, assigned to one party or another, included unpaid taxes (NDP), abusing election laws (Conservatives), improperly taking money from charities (Liberals), improperly claimed expenses (Liberals), illegal campaign debts (Liberals), illegal political donations (NDP), flouting Hill security (NDP), a potentially illegal cheque (Conservatives), secrecy (Conservatives) and sabotaging the committee to select the parliamentary budget officer (Conservatives).

The 2015 budget will still determine the outcome of the election, but not the way the Harper government wanted it to.

Despite the election of Donald Trump, this budget leaves no question that clean growth remains a priority for Justin Trudeau's government.

Perhaps we will see what they mean when they finally come out with the specifics of their «Balanced Budget Legislation», which they announced in their 2011 election campaign.

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The PC dynasty's final budget in March 2015 did propose a bad - medicine combination of modest budget cuts and assorted tax hikes — earnest efforts to bail Alberta out of chronic deficits, and exactly the sort of unpalatable budget a shrewd premier releases after an election, not before one.

Despite the election of Donald Trump, this budget leaves no question that clean growth remains...

Perhaps the Parliamentary Budget Officer should be asked to cost the election promises of all three political parties based on an updated economic and fiscal outlook.

«Today's budget delivered on the government's election promise to boost spending for social programs and stimulate growth in key sectors of our economy.

One can reasonably argue that their platform consists of announcements made immediately prior to the November 2014 Update, the announcements made in that Update, the announcements made in the April 2015 Budget; and the announcements made during the election.

Given that the next election is likely to be in the fall of 2015, the 2015 Budget will likely show a surplus for 2015 - 16, since the final outcome for the deficit will not be known until the fall of 2016.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

First, prior to the start of an election, the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) should prepare a five - year economic and fiscal forecast.

The Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty, tabled a budget on June 6, 2011, just over two months after he tabled his last budget, which died on the order paper with the dissolution of Parliament due to the election.

In the 2006 election, the Conservative Party proposed the creation of an independent Budget Office to oversee the government's finances.

This raises the question of whether the Finance Minister will be able to balance the budget in 2019 - 20 if the Government attempts to fully implement its election promises.

The latest budget contained two of the election promises: potential reimbursement to the province of Quebec for costs associated with the potential harmonization of the provincial sales tax with the GST and the phase - out of political subsidies.

There could be three budgets before the next general election in the fall of 2015.

That adjusted forecast projected a surplus of $ 7.2 billion in 2019 - 20, allowing you to claim a balanced budget in 2019 - 20, after incorporating the net impact of your election promises.

How the government prepares its 2015 budget will have a major impact on the outcome of the 2015 election.

The final budget outcome for 2015 - 16 will not be known until the fall of 2016, a year after any election.

The only thing the 2011 budget will likely be remembered for is that it may trigger an excuse to call an election, because of a 1.5 percentage point reduction in the corporate tax rate; a trivial economic reason, but, for some, an important political reason.

First budgets, after an election, often don't turn out well for Ministers of Finance.

QUEBEC — The Parti Quebecois government tabled what it calls a «responsible» budget Thursday aimed at erasing doubts over the party's economic record and blunting opponent attacks ahead of an expected spring election.

Before tabling the budget Thursday, Marceau said the plan addresses Quebec's needs regardless of whether an election is called for the spring.

Wynne said the announcement, made the day before the government tables its final budget ahead of the June election, is estimated to save families $ 17,000 a year.

But in crafting a sweeping deal that busts budget caps, they've stirred conservative opposition and set the contours for the next funding fight ahead of the midterm elections.

Even Jim Flahertyâ $ ™ s â $ œWe Donâ $ ™ t Pick Winnersâ $ Conservatives were under pressure in this budget to do something for the auto industry. The fact that at least a dozen swing ridings in southwestern Ontario could determine the outcome of the next election might have something to do with their sensitivity to the continuing industrial destruction being -LSB-...]

The government's 2015 election platform originally proposed three years of deficit spending followed by a balanced budget in 2019 - 20.

Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas has unleashed a spending spree in Tuesday's budget ahead of this year's state election with a record $ 13.7 b infrastructure spend.

'' The government sector has been a drag, there is still one more budget fight coming in the next few weeks and that's going to be a challenge, but if we get through that we are into the part of the election cycle where government drag turns into a small boost, we are already seeing some rehiring at the state and local level and that is significant as well.»

The Victorian government has unleashed a record $ 13.7 billion infrastructure spending spree in Tuesday's budget ahead of this year's state election, mostly across road, rail, hospitals and schools to meet the state's booming population.

Ottawa — On the cusp of Thursday's federal election debate on the economy, the Trade Justice Network, (www.tradejustice.ca), a coalition of Canadian unions, environmental groups and citizens» groups, is calling on federal leaders to mandate the Parliamentary Budget Officer to do real fact - based analysis before they sign «free trade» deals that are destructive to Canadian -LSB-...]

In their 43 years in government, it has been common for the PCs to table a provincial budget in February or March and then immediately drop the Writ of election in order to use the budget as their de-facto campaign platform.

The question uppermost on the minds of Progressive Conservative stalwarts Thursday afternoon was this: Is it a budget we can take into an election?

Finance Minister Charles Sousa unveiled the Liberal government's latest budget ahead of the June election.

For the first two years, the fiscal cost of the election promises in the March 2016 Budget corresponds closely to what was outlined in the 2015 election campaign.

Despite indications of deep cuts in the Pentagon's budget, given that this is an election year, there is little doubt that the House Armed Services Committee will approval all, or nearly all, of the money.

The election platform proposed a number of initiatives to improve the credibility, transparency and integrity of the budget process.

In addition, the election platform promised a review of Canada's international assistance policy framework, but no funding was provided in the budget for the outcome of this review.

However, budget commitments relating to health care, (specifically the election promise for funding for home care), and for expanding employment insurance benefits and providing employment opportunities for young Canadians fall signicantly short of what was promised in the election..