Sentences with phrase «federal minister campaigned»

The former federal minister campaigned for eight months, grabbed an unfamiliar delegate selection system by the lapels, and shook free 1,113 votes of 1,476 ballots cast at the weekend convention.

The former federal minister campaigned for eight months,...

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper kicked off the 2015 Federal Election on Sunday morning, framing the campaign to come as a choice about the fiscal stewardship of Canada's government and economy overall.

Every day as this federal election campaign unfolds, it becomes more and more obvious that Mr. Harper is the best choice for prime minister, and another strong, stable, national majority Conservative government is the best choice for Canada.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's economic record since taking office in 2006 is at the centre of debate in the current federal election campaign.

Bhatti, who was Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs, was well known for campaigning against the nation's strict blasphemy law and lobbying for the rights of religious minorities.

Groups such as Clean Up Australia have long campaigned for plastic bags to be banned «forever,» and in March last year hopes were buoyed when federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt said he was prepared to use the «bully pulpit» of government to «get rid of» plastic bags.

Former federal government minister Peter Reith has been appointed to conduct a review into the Liberal Party's federal election campaign.

A former Minister of Education and co-convener of Bring Back Our Girls campaign group, Oby Ezekwesili, has called on the Federal government to listen to the voice of the masses crying out their pains.

In the Federal Government's efforts to improve productivity in the non-oil sector, diversify the economy and create employment, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has urged Nigerians to join the government in championing the campaign for patronage of Made - in - Nigeria goods.

Federal Government Education Minister Simon Birmingham has said he «hopes» to avoid a political campaign against them in the lead up to the 2019 election.

Federal Government Education Minister Simon Birmingham has said he «hopes» to avoid a political campaign against them in the lead up to the 2019 election, after the Government successfully got its Gonski 2.0 reforms through the senate.

Wynne, one of Trudeau's most ardent supporters during the federal campaign, gave the prime minister - designate a big hug as he stepped out of his car while virtually the entire Liberal cabinet and hundreds of Liberal staffers applauded and cheered.

Tom Flanagan was campaign manager to Prime Minister Stephen Harper when he headed Canada's newly formed Conservative Party in federal elections in 2004, and then again in 2005, when the Conservatives won a minority in government.

After meeting Mr Goyal, federal Resources Minister Matt Canavan, who has previously criticised the campaign to block the Indian project, said: «We need to be able to take advantage of the demand for coal in Asia.»

Paulsen was not only publicist for Friends of Science in 2005 - 6, but also planned and executed a Friends of Science radio ad campaign that coincided with the 2006 Canadian federal election campaign that brought Prime Minister Stephen Harper to power.

During the 2008 federal election campaign, then - prime minister Stephen Harper took particular delight in lampooning Liberal leader Stephane Dion's green shift plan as a tax on everything.

In 2006, she served as the provincial campaign co-chair to former Ontario education minister Gerard Kennedy, when he ran for the federal Liberal leadership.

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.

The Close the Gap Campaign has released its position paper on the Federal Budget 2015 - 16, calling on Government to restore cuts of up to $ 534.4 million over five years from the rationalisation of Indigenous Affairs programs, grants and activities administered by the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Health portfolios.