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Former defence minister and senator for Western Australia David Johnston has been appointed Australia's first defence export advocate, after the federal government committed to spend an additional $ 20 million every year to support the sector.
TORONTO — The Liberal government will not «act in an impulsive way» in response to U.S. corporate tax cuts that economists say pose a threat to Canada's competitiveness, the federal finance minister said after a pre-budget meeting Friday.
Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau speaks with the press after a meeting with Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa and Toronto Mayor John Tory in April 2017.
It seems equally appropriate to describe Jim Flaherty, whose unexpected death today came less than a month after he resigned as federal Finance Minister.
Two weeks after Redford's remarks, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters lower government revenues follow from lower commodity prices like «night follows the day,» meaning a hard line of spending as he approaches his own coming budget.
Soon after the 2015 federal election, Prime Minister - designate Justin Trudeau affirmed that Canada was back as a «compassionate and constructive voice in the world» after a decade of Conservative governments.
A decade ago, he was the Harper Conservative MP assigned to gleefully explain to reporters the party strategy behind the attack ads unfurled against Stéphane Dion weeks after federal Liberals crowned the former environment minister as leader.
That has to be one of the major lessons taught by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's surprise announcement today that the federal, Ontario and British Columbia governments have finally, after years of setbacks and delays, agreed to set up a cooperative regulator for securities markets.
In a round of interviews after the auditors» report was released, federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna argued in effect that the report is out of date.
Back to the federal Conservative leadership, Fildebrandt has endorsed leadership candidate Maxime Bernier, the Quebec MP known for his libertarian views briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs before resigning in 2008 after he acknowledged leaving sensitive government documents out in the open, apparently at his former girlfriend's home.
The union was prepared to strike on April 21, but it was averted after the federal labour minister ordered the vote.
For example, Health Minister Jane Philpott will sit down with her provincial counterparts immediately after the retreat to discuss a new federal funding formula.
Shortly after the meeting, Information Minister Lai Mohammed told journalists that President Muhammadu Buhari was advised by his doctors to stay away from the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.
Addressing newsmen after the Federal Executive Council meeting held at the Aso villa, Abuja, Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma said that government has kicked off the process of reviving the ailing economy, saying that the banks would still need the staff later when the economy picks up.
The approval was confirmed by the Minister of State for Aviation Senator Hadi Sirika while addressing State House journalists after the Federal Executive Council meeting.
The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika who made this known while briefing State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting said that all the airports in the country will be concessioned as the Federal government will not be able to fund infrastructure from the national budget.
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fasola, who disclosed this to State House Correspondents after the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) explained that the amount approved for payment by Council is what has been verifiable after the claim by the DISCOS.
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who briefed newsmen in the State House after the Federal Executive Council
Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, said this during a chat with State House correspondents after a meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC).
The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who signed on behalf of the Federal Government, had said the cost reduction for the projects was achieved after the contract was renegotiated by both parties.
This was confirmed by the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, while briefing State House journalists after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who briefed newsmen in the State House after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, said it was saddening that ASUU went on strike owing to the failure of the federal government to fulfil its own part of the bargain with the union lasFederal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, said it was saddening that ASUU went on strike owing to the failure of the federal government to fulfil its own part of the bargain with the union lasfederal government to fulfil its own part of the bargain with the union last year.
Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, showed the nine directors the exit of the ministry after the approval by the federal government.
The group said in a statement on Sunday by its Executive Director, Adetokunbi Mumuni, that it resorted to suing the Federal Government after its request for Patience's prosecution was ignored by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN).
Briefing journalists after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday, Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, said Jonathan, who presided over the meeting, insisted that he did not want any of the projects initiated under his administration to be abandoned as such not only traps money belonging to the country but also denies them the use and benefit of such projects.
Also at no time did the Honourable Minister, who addressed the media immediately after Wednesday's Federal Executive Council, make such a statement.
No one is blaming her for the collapse of oil prices in the international market but that after a cumulative 8 years as finance minister, public finance is so heavily dependent on oil that the Federal and state governments can not pay their workers» salaries says a lot about the quality of management she did.
More than half of government scientists in Canada — 53 % — do not feel they can speak freely to the media about their work, even after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government eased restrictions on what they can say publicly, according to a survey released today by a union that represents more than 16,000 federal scientists.
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.
On Friday in Adelaide, an Education Council meeting of federal, state and territory education ministers will consider a multilateral agreement for schools funding for 2018 — 19, with bilateral agreements to be negotiated after the Gonski 2.0 review reports in March 2018.
The federal government's long - promised changes to parental leave rules will go into effect early next month, says Families Minister Jean - Yves Duclos, allowing eligible new parents to take up to 18 months of employment insurance benefits after the birth of a child.
The federal ministers told reporters after the meeting there had been no consensus, but Sousa and ministers from Prince Edward Island, Quebec and British Columbia all said Ottawa was the only voice against proceeding to consultations and study.
A federal - provincial meeting on Canada Pension Plan reform broke up in recriminations Monday after several provincial ministers accused Finance Minister Jim Flaherty of blocking efforts to enrich the plan — or even agreeing to further study.
After years of encouragement from federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, Ontario and B.C. are following the lead of the Atlantic provinces and harmonizing their provincial sales taxes with the federal GST, starting in July 2010.
Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O'Regan will unveil the pension scheme on Wednesday, more than two years after it was first promised during the 2015 federal election.
The 2015 federal election saw promises by the NDP and the Liberals to expand the CPP, leading Canada's finance ministers to get back to work in examining CPP reform after the dust settled from the election.
Without doubt, the most important milestone in Finance Minister Joe Oliver's 2015 budget is that the federal government will finally be in the black after facing deficits ever since the 2008 - 09 Great Recession.
This week, however, a different story altogether from the federal finance minister after meeting again with his provincial counterparts.
Perhaps in response to all the criticism, in October 2011, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani created four new federal ministries to absorb leftover departments at the federal level after devolution.
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.»
In a round of interviews after the auditors» report was released, federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna argued in effect that the report is out of date.
In December 2016, the Federal Court of Appeal allowed the appeal of the Governor General in Council and six federal government ministers, after the Federal Court found they had breached their duty to consult the Mikisew Cree on the development and introduction in Parliament of two omnibus bills that reduced federal regulatory oversight of works and projects that might affect the Mikisew Cree's treaty Federal Court of Appeal allowed the appeal of the Governor General in Council and six federal government ministers, after the Federal Court found they had breached their duty to consult the Mikisew Cree on the development and introduction in Parliament of two omnibus bills that reduced federal regulatory oversight of works and projects that might affect the Mikisew Cree's treaty federal government ministers, after the Federal Court found they had breached their duty to consult the Mikisew Cree on the development and introduction in Parliament of two omnibus bills that reduced federal regulatory oversight of works and projects that might affect the Mikisew Cree's treaty Federal Court found they had breached their duty to consult the Mikisew Cree on the development and introduction in Parliament of two omnibus bills that reduced federal regulatory oversight of works and projects that might affect the Mikisew Cree's treaty federal regulatory oversight of works and projects that might affect the Mikisew Cree's treaty rights.
That announcement came in the wake of concerns from federal and provincial finance ministers about whether Canada was ready for legalization after a meeting between the ministers ended with no consensus on a coordinated strategy to tax cannabis.
Just one day after federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said filling vacancies at the Supreme Court of Canada is the government's top priority, the Federal Court's chief justice announced he will step down on Sefederal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said filling vacancies at the Supreme Court of Canada is the government's top priority, the Federal Court's chief justice announced he will step down on SeFederal Court's chief justice announced he will step down on Sept. 30.
The legal battle began after AstraZeneca filed a patent related to the drug, but generic pharmaceutical producer Apotex applied to the federal Minister of Health to be able to sell its generic version.
It was nearly eight months after the federal election before the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced its first judicial appointments, in the wake of an increasing call, even from senior members of the bench, to fill a number of vacancies across the country.
In the 1960s, Claude Wagner — the father of current Supreme Court justice Richard Wagner — was a judge, then a Quebec politician and cabinet minister, then after losing the Quebec Liberal leadership to Robert Bourassa in 1970, Wagner returned to the bench but then stepped down from the bench again to enter federal politics as a Conservative.
Almost a year after the Federal Court struck down the health care restrictions to refugees, a second Federal Court judge ruled in Y.Z. v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) that restrictions imposed on some refugee claimants to an appeal body called the Refugee Appeal Division violated s. 15 of the Charter.
A brief communique released after the meeting by Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion, said members had «discussed priorities for Indigenous affairs, noting the importance of the process to refresh Closing the gap», as well as «the importance of listening to, and working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.»