Sentences with phrase «federal leaders debate»

Quebec dairy farmers thrust their fight over supply management into the election spotlight today, bringing a pair of cows to the site of tonight's federal leaders debate.

Not exact matches

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-...]

on Federal leaders» debate: Canada's trade deals need independent analysis, not corporate cheerleading, says Trade Justice Network

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd used the final leaders» debate of the 2013 federal election to signal a possible shift on foreign property ownership, saying he is «a bit nervous» about an «open slather approach».

Contributing to the debate, Leader of the House, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila (Lagos - APC), said Nigeria practises the federal system of government and not unitary system.

What: Press conference with a diverse set of community leaders — including some who were arrested for acts of civil disobedience during last year's «debt ceiling» debate — calling on their federal officials to demand a fair deal that protects jobs and services and ensures the wealthiest pay their fair share.

Since only a tiny fraction of Americans has lived through a state constitutional convention in their adult lifetimes, and since Americans are not taught about state constitutional conventions (as opposed to the federal constitutional convention of 1787) during their formal schooling (even those such as myself who received a Ph.D. in American government), Americans approach these referendums starting with a huge knowledge deficit, making local opinion leaders that much more influential in public debates.

While federal and provincial leaders debate how to solve the pension crisis during meetings in Whitehorse this week, an interesting proposal has been suggested by the head of Ontario's municipal workers pension plan: let anyone join a government employee pension plan.

17 January 2017 One month after an opposition leader of the Paiter - Surui indigenous people sparked an uncharacteristically public debate about the people's landmark forest carbon project, several village and clan leaders sent a «letter of clarification» to the Federal Public Ministry (Ministério Público Federal) outlining what they see as flaws in the governing mechanisms designed to handle community finances.

In last week's French - language debate, the question of doctor - assisted death was raised but the responses provided by the federal leaders were brief and somewhat vague.

The president's campaign was reinvigorated by the second debate, but if he invariably loses the election, I'm sure there will be a place for him in Ottawa as federal Liberal leader and future Canadian prime minister.

[98] In the course of the Senate debate Senator John Faulkner tabled a letter [99] from Premier Peter Beattie to Opposition Leader Kim Beazley that contained the terms of a compromise reached between the Queensland Government and the federal Labor Party which informed the Opposition's vote in the Senate.