Sentences with phrase «election promises like»

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Harper has promised to bring in fixed election dates, like those in B.C..

While it may feel like a lifetime or two since the last federal election, when Trudeau was promising a very different kind of democratic reform, 19 months isn't a long time to get Canada's electoral system protected from 2019 - style threats to its fairness and integrity.

So we are dealing with the irreconcilable fact that the Obama position threatens to lower living standards from 10 % to 20 % over the coming few years — making the United States look more like Greece, Ireland and Latvia than what was promised in the last presidential election.

But something like: «In which direction does the election of a new majority government who has promised this level of fiscal spend above the previous baseline shift the balance of risks for monetary policymakers?

Critics like University of Victoria professors Rob Gillezeau and Jeffrey Ansloos point, for example, to the Parliamentary Budget Officer's analysis that shows the federal government may not have allocated enough money to fulfill the Liberals» key 2015 election promise to eliminate the gap between federal spending on First Nations students and kids attending provincially funded schools.

Mr Shuker also said the Conservatives had failed to clear the deficit by the next general election like they promised to.

Nobody should want the politicizing of church leadership that comes with popular elections, as is the case in many Protestant denominations, and the Board assumes the right of the pope to appoint bishops, but they are convinced that the present pattern of the promotion of the like - minded by the like - minded within a clericalist club designed to perpetuate the habits that created the present crisis is not a promising way toward reform.

There are of course lots of other voting systems than first - past - the - post which promise more democratic election results, like approval voting, alternative vote and their many variants.

It's a promising sign, as the district's largely Hispanic electorate was projected to stay home in an off - year election like this one.

If the Conservatives look like getting 305 seats at the next General Election but could get an extra 20 - 30 seats by forming a short - term narrow pact with Ukip, and if Ukip believe they can force Miliband to promise an in - out referendum by forming a short - term narrow pact with the Conservatives, we should not allow personality issues to prevent us from doing the deal.

I'm aware of the Google Civic Information project, which seemed promising, but it looks like Google pulled the plug on it, as none of yesterday's elections were listed in it, and there haven't been any updates or announcements in well over a year.

But speaking on Citi TV's Politicos to Citi News» Umaru Sanda Amadu, Mr. Kwetey maintained that, government had run away from its promises to remove or review more impactful taxes, like the energy sector levy, or the reduction in corporate income tax as promised ahead of the 2016 elections.

In the case of New York's property - tax cap, though, Tea Party organizations like his found themselves in alignment not only with the Senate Republicans but with Governor Andrew Cuomo, who campaigned for election on a promise to limit property taxes and pushed hard once he was in office — in the face of resistance from Democratic legislators, and opprobrium from the New York Times editorial page — to see that it passed.

This, he explained, will enable the NPP win the elections with the majority in Parliament to implement its policy proposals, and fulfill its promises like the party did in government from 2001 - 2008.

«Like the president had promised when he was a candidate and campaigning for election, he said all money that came into the treasury will be used for the good of Nigerians and that is what is happening.

The weaker economic conditions have put pressure on the new Liberal government's election promises, which include big - ticket spending for projects like infrastructure that it says will produce jobs and growth.

Let's not forget that, on the eve of Trump's election, the narrative — propounded by luminaries like Paul Krugman and Larry Summers — was that markets would crater if he won, and that EM stocks and bonds would be savaged, all driven by his protectionist promises.

Well, I suppose it sort of is a tax, in the sensethat if you earn a paycheque, you have to pay into EI (self employed are exempt) but it's totally separate from income tax, so the government can't decide how to spend it (aside from like, raising EI rates so they can raise payments, which is always promised come election time but never happens).

«Just like income splitting, reports confirm that doubling the TFSA contribution limit is another expensive, regressive Conservative promise that will benefit the wealthiest few,» the Liberals said, when contacted by the Financial Post for an exclusive survey on the TFSA before the election.

Some major dog meat shops — like the Moran Market in Seongnam — have been shuttered, and President Moon Jae - in even made a campaign promise to adopt a shelter dog if he won last year's presidential election.

Since the recent federal election there has been much discussion (and as my colleague Eugene Kung notes, an abundance of open letters) about the Liberal party's election promise to «review Canada's environmental assessment (EA) processes and introduce new, fair processes» for reviewing projects (or re-reviewing them, as in the case of major proposals like the controversial Kinder Morgan and Energy East oil sands pipeline and tankers projects).

The Budget, by focusing on health assurance mission, will try to do justice to Modi's and the Bharatiya Janata Party's election promise of a complete healthcare system that collaborates indigenous health systems like Ayurveda and is wholly accessible, economical and effective.

And like Facebook, both Google and Twitter have promised to harden their platforms against disinformation entering the next U.S. election in 2018 while introducing new political ad transparency measures.