Sentences with phrase «federal cabinet approved»

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It represented the culmination of years of frustration over what Democrats denounced as a Republican campaign to stall the machinery of Congress, stymie President Obama's agenda and block his choices for cabinet posts and federal judgeships by insisting that virtually everything the Senate approves be done by a supermajority.

The move, approved by the Conservative cabinet in May 2015, was supposed to save money, since Shared Services Canada buys in bulk for the federal government, and improve digital security, because Shared Services Canada buys from safe suppliers.

Whistleblowers in the federal government revealed that they were pressured «to give cabinet a legally - sound basis to say «yes»» to the pipeline and tanker proposal,» one month before the pipeline was actually approved.

This means that the final decision of whether the project should be approved now lies with the federal Cabinet.

Conditionally approved by federal Cabinet in June 2014, the project was the subject of a barrage of legal challenges brought by eight First Nations (including two co-represented by West Coast and Mandell Pinder LLP), four environmental groups, as well as Canada's largest private sector union (which represents both oil sands and fisheries workers impacted by the project).