Today marks two years since he unveiled an eight - foot high stone with Labour's 2015
election promises in.
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.
Budget cuts not possible - Buswell The state government's economic policy was in tatters last night after Treasurer Troy Buswell conceded he would not achieve the controversial 3 per cent cuts expected to pay for
election promises in this year's budget.
Not exact matches
The failure of far - right populist Gert Wilders to win the recent Dutch
election was a boost for the EU but a threat awaits
in the prospect of French President Marine le Pen, a far - right anti-immigration candidate who has
promised to hold a referendum on France's EU membership if elected, the same
promise Cameron made.
Trump, who invested little
in formulating specific policy proposals during the presidential campaign, left his team scrambling after he won the
election to prepare to implement on his campaign
promises.
In the runup to the 2015 UK general
election, former Prime Minister David Cameron
promised to hold a nationwide referendum on Britain's membership of the EU if he was elected for a second time.
AUSTRALIANS finds themselves
in the peculiar position that whichever party wins the coming federal
election, a former party leader has been
promised a senior ministerial post.
«It's not so bad
in a general
election because you have got five years to sort it out and the lies and
promises will blow back
in people's faces,» Sugar said.
In first
promise of the official 2015 federal
election campaign, Stephen Harper said the Conservatives would increase the apprenticeship job creation tax credit to $ 2,500 from $ 2,000 and expand the program to include a third and fourth year of training.
Swaths of virgin desert
in the U.S. West
in recent years have transformed into solar farms, a trend green energy supporters predict will persist even with the
election of a president who is making fossil fuel - friendly Cabinet appointments and
promises to bring back coal.
But during regional
elections in mid-March, the socialist opposition won 21 of 22 regions, a sharp rebuff that seriously threatens his ability to deliver on the
promises that brought him to power.
In election years, people make
promises that they will be delivering on year or two after.
To boost GOP prospects
in the midterm
elections, Trump needs to show that Republicans are delivering on long -
promised tax relief.
Trump has been vocal
in his praise of Carrier and has reportedly offered the company $ 7 million
in tax breaks as part of the agreement, which Trump brokered after his
election win last month after
promising on the campaign trail that he would save the jobs
in question.
A key reason for holding the vote was to fulfil a 2011
promise made by all municipal
election candidates
in Kitimat to poll citizens on the pipeline project.
The agreement handed a victory to Obama, who had
promised before the
election to address budget woes
in part by raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
SoftBank, a telecommunications and technology behemoth that holds a 29.9 % stake
in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, was among the first major foreign corporations to
promise U.S. investments and jobs after the November presidential
election.
During the 2008
election, Obama
promised his presidency «will mark a new chapter
in America's leadership on climate change.»
The consequence of missing the forecasted period, of course, would be a delay
in enacting the above - mentioned
election promises concerning increasing TFSA contribution limits and so on.
In Ontario, for instance, Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne has included a separate provincial pension counterpart as one of her party's key
election promises ahead of the province's June 12
election.
That message orchestration starts
in Stouffville, Ont., where he was reportedly set announce a small business tax cut shortly before noon, effectively returning to a 2015
election promise then failed to deliver on
in the government's first two budgets.
These theatrics, which go well beyond the usual angst at a new venture, have contributed to a growing perception that innovation has stalled and management is
in turmoil at one of Silicon Valley's most
promising startups, which some 20 million active users rely on each month for updates on everything from subway delays to
election results — and which a growing number of companies, big and small, seek to use to market themselves and track customers.
There has been speculation about whether any collusion occurred that involved a
promise to lift sanctions
in exchange for Russia's meddling
in the US presidential
election, which some argue may have helped Trump win.
This referendum was called by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron because of a
promise made
in his
election campaign to renegotiate terms with the EU and then hold a referendum, designed to win over voters he feared would defect to UKIP.
SCL Group, the entity which controlled Cambridge Analytica, appeared to once boast on its website that it had been a crucial player
in Duterte's 2016
election victory, driving a campaign
promising a violent crackdown on crime.
Italy's borrowing costs have come down
in recent months, helped by the
promise of European Central Bank support but the
election result confirmed fears that it would not produce a government strong enough to implement effective reforms.
Mnangagwa has
promised a free and fair
election in Zimbabwe
in July, and has said that he will invite international observers to the event.
During the
election campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper
promised that Transport Canada will monitor congestion
in the same manner as the TTI does
in the United States.
Donald Trump's surprise U.S. presidential
election victory
promises to result
in an overhaul of U.S. trade policy, including the immediate end of support for the Trans Pacific Partnership, the controversial trade pact involving 12 Pacific countries including Canada, the U.S., and Japan.
Not running a deficit under any circumstances was the position that the Conservatives had run on
in the 2008
election, and the other parties had made similar
promises.
The company says it won't throw good money after bad until someone can do something about the NDP government of John Horgan
in B.C., who
promised in the
election last summer to try to stop the project.
Keep
in mind that we have French parliamentary
elections due to take place on June 11 and 18, and we expect the outcome of those votes to play a big role
in Macron's ability to deliver on his
election promises.
Seventeen days later, by then
in an
election campaign, the Conservatives
promised to return to balance
in 2014 - 2015.
Harper has
promised to bring
in fixed
election dates, like those
in B.C..
Before the
election, the Federal Conservatives
promised only to start collecting such information starting
in 2016.
In the Liberals» election platform, they promised to restore this requirement and the government did so in 201
In the Liberals»
election platform, they
promised to restore this requirement and the government did so
in 201
in 2017.
The Prime Minister thought everything was going as planned, when he announced last October, several measures
promised in the 2011 Conservative
election platform.
Do you have the imagination, capacity, and the policy independence, to put together a policy agenda that is better both
in policy and political terms, than simply rubber - stamping some misguided and out of date 2011
election promises?
Given recent economic developments (which suggest there will be no surplus this year) and global uncertainties, together with a commitment by all three major political parties to balanced budgets and no tax increases (other than the NDP), it would be fiscally imprudent for any political party to make new major
election «
promises»
in the coming months without indicating how they would be financed.
Subtracting NDP
election promises from available funds would leave a surplus of $ 1.7 billion
in 2015 - 16 and $ 1.5 billion
in 2019 - 20.
As result, their «
election promises» total about $ 12.5 billion by 2019 - 20, roughly
in line to that proposed by the other parties.
This was quite a change from the 2006
election promise and related documents,
in which they had indicated that it would be an independent agency, reporting directly to Parliament.
«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.
In the 2006
election campaign, the Conservative Party
promised an independent office, reporting to Parliament with virtually full access to all relevant information.
In the last
election, the Conservative
promised additional tax expenditure, amounting to $ 3 billion a year, once the budget is balanced.
During the 2006
election, the Conservative Party
promised greater transparency and accountability
in budget planning.
Including Mr. Harper's vow
in 2008 that a government led by him would «never» go into deficit, this is the second time
in three years that the Conservatives have made a balanced - budget
promise during an
election campaign only to abandon it after being reelected.
He contended his
election would prevent Americans from «sharing
in the poverty
promised by Hillary Clinton.»
In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a
promise made during the 2011
election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.
In the 2006
election campaign, the Conservatives
promised an independent office, reporting to Parliament with virtually full access to all relevant information.