Sentences with phrase «election platform»

A long term vision for the city should be the key election platform.

A shortfall of $ 2 billion was identified which they claim will be financed as part of their future election platform.

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

A long - term vision for the city region will be the key election platform — it is what the mayor is working towards while in office.

Running for election risks creating the false belief among some law society directors that their role is to represent their electors, which may result in election platforms designed to be attractive to that group.

Highlights of the Green Party's election platform include:

GVBOT's 2017 Provincial Election Platform also called for legislation that enables ridesharing and modernizes the taxi industry.

The 2015 Liberal election platform had a proposal to limit the benefits of the 50 % employee stock option deduction by placing a cap of $ 100,000 on annual eligible stock option gains but this was dropped after intense lobbying by startups in the tech and resource industry who rely heavily on non-cash compensation such as stock options to attract much needed, specialized talent to their firms.

The New Brunswick Federation of Labour is proud to be one of the organizations that has signed onto Building a more equal society: A progressive election platform for New Brunswick in 2018.

The Liberal's election platform promised to conduct a review of over $ 100 billion in tax expenditures.

The Prime Minister thought everything was going as planned, when he announced last October, several measures promised in the 2011 Conservative election platform.

In her recent winning election platform, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne made this link between kindergarten and child care crystal clear for voters, boasting in her brochures that full - day kindergarten amounts to «$ 6,500 in daycare cost savings» for the average family.

Parsing a blind copy of the weekend's Liberal resolutions, one would be forgiven for confusing it with an embryonic NDP election platform.

The Liberals last two election platforms felt like they were written for academics, not voters (It didn't help their last two leaders were, well, academics).

The finance minister's office responded that «the government's priority is returning to balance and fulfilling election platform commitments.»

Every minority - government budget is to some great extent a political document, purpose - built for two contradictory goals: persuading at least one opposition party to support it to keep the government afloat, while also serving as a de facto election platform if no one bites.

Surrounded by an enthusiastic studio audience, Stephen Harper tabled the Conservative party election platform in Mississauga this morning.

At the conference a couple of weeks ago where Elizabeth May mused about income trusts, she also committed to make opposition to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) the centrepiece of the Green Partyâ $ ™ s forthcoming election platform.

Mulcair's plan goes further than the cap and trade proposal advanced by late NDP leader Jack Layton in the party's election platform last spring.

The survey was the latest stage in the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Provincial Election Engagement Strategy, which also included a pre-election survey, events with all three party leaders, the release of a GVBOT Election Platform, and the launch of an online Election Dashboard.

It may be a historic document for more reasons than that, if Premier Rachel Notley's NDP government sticks to the general legislative agenda laid out in the party's election platform before May 5's surprising election.

Official opposition first proposed measure in 2011, also was part of New Democrat election platform VANCOUVER — New Democrat leader Adrian Dix welcomed today's announcement that young adults with Type 1 diabetes will be eligible for insulin pump coverage — a...

This was a key recommendation outlined in the GVBOT's 2017 Provincial Election Platform released earlier this year to the media and to all parties.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade expects all parties running to form the next Provincial Government to develop a fully costed and financially responsible election platform.

For example, the 1999 Likud election platform read:

«If Cuomo were able to carry through on his promise for a really effective fair elections platform, I think that would make a tremendous difference to people,» said David Sprintzen, a state committeeman from Syosset.

The Campaign also welcomed the Australian Labor Party [114] and Australian Greens Indigenous Affairs [115] election platform.

The commitment to negotiate a new Health Accord was not costed in the Liberal election platform.

With less than 100 days until the May 9 B.C. Election, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade has released its 2017 Provincial Election Platform, which outlines key issues and priorities of the regional business community and makes a series of recommendations to the parties running to form the next Provincial Government.

Progress is the order of business in Canada's so - called Conservative heartland as Premier Rachel Notley's newly elected Alberta NDP government begins implementing the main promises from their winning election platform.

Today's budget update contained several steps consistent with the NDP Election Platform and their agreement with the BC Green Party and reiterated a number of recent announcements.

Although most of the Conservative election platform was set out last October with the introduction of the increases to the Universal Child Care Benefit and the Family Tax Cut, Stephen Harper has announced two new initiatives in the first two days of the 2015 election campaign.

And it's a shift in the Liberals» approach to economic policy, which had become encumbered over the past decade by vacuous buzzwords like «champion sectors» and «innovation gateways» (Both found on a single - page in the 2011 election platform).

In its 2015 elections platform, the party proposed developing a Seniors Price Index that would supplement the general Consumer Price Index to which OAS and GIS are currently indexed.

The NDP has to decide whether it will prop up the minority Liberal government, but even if it doesn't, the provincial pension plan is likely to become a key part of the Liberals» election platform.

The party's 2004 and 2008 election platforms both endorsed cap and trade, and the government continued to entertain the idea as late as 2009.

A new party led by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike unveiled its election platform on Friday, pledging to prevent a planned sales tax hike.

As if to prove this claim, federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau announced that one plank of his election platform will be to realign the tax system to shift wealth away from those nasty one - percenters and down to the middle class.

This was perhaps most evident in the Board of Trade's report on housing affordability in the Lower Mainland, as well as its 2017 Provincial Election Engagement Strategy, which included the creation of an Election Platform and launch of an online Election Dashboard.

In the lead up to the provincial election next May, the Liberal government has begun laying the groundwork for an election platform, announcing new policies in the hopes of wooing voters.

In the Liberals» election platform, they promised to restore this requirement and the government did so in 2017.

The Conservatives promised to pursue cap - and - trade — that is, to put a price on carbon — in their 2008 election platform in the fall of 2008 (in the middle of that campaign, Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy and the stock markets went sideways).

The Conservative government proposed it in their 2006 election platform, only to find out quickly that such a target was not achievable.