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Find a summary of the campaign platforms for each of the federal political parties in Canada.

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Some Democrats also demanded the removal of a provision that allows a massive increase in individual contributions to national political parties for federal elections, potentially up to $ 777,600 a year.

Point Bridge Capital, a financial firm in Fort Worth, Texas combed through election filings to identify 150 corporations whose employees, management and political action committees have donated the most money to Republican candidates for office and any party - affiliated federal committees or groups.

Indeed, as part of the 2015 election, all political parties should be asked how they view the role of the federal government in the economy; what size of government (i.e. debt ratio) are they looking for; and how would they achieve it?

These include activities considered intervention under the Internal Revenue Code in any political campaign, such as direct and indirect political contributions to candidates, political parties, or political organizations; independent expenditures; or electioneering communications on behalf of federal, state, or local candidates.

On June 6 Finance Minister Jim Flaherty reintroduced his spring federal budget, which was never passed in the rush to an election, with a key twist: Flaherty added a measure to phase out the $ 2 - per - vote subsidy to political parties by 2015 - 16.

It should be clear to all political parties that, after 2015, there will be little in the way of «surpluses» for the federal government to deal with critical policy challenges.

We will also add the costing of political party platforms to the PBO's mandate, as is the case in Australia and the Netherlands, so that starting in the next federal election, Canadians can review the fiscal plans of political parties from a credible and comparable baseline.

He would become the longest - serving leader of a major political party in Canadian history and the only Prime Minister to win four consecutive federal elections by backing up his pledge of real change with real action.

In May 2015, former federal cabinet minister and bank vice-president Jim Prentice, a political moderate and patrician of the province's Conservative establishment, led the 44 - year long governing Progressive Conservatives to a stunning defeat by Rachel Notley «s New Democratic Party.

Find information on Canadian federal electoral history from 2006 - 2008, including 2006 general election results, changes in party leadership, and political party standing prior to 2008 general election.

Find a summary of the major political parties» election platforms and key election promises for the 2008 federal election in Canada.

Find information on registered political parties in the 2008 federal election, including party leadership, background information, and election platforms.

The survey showed the Wildrose Party in second place in Calgary with 21 % and the NDP in second place in Edmonton with 21 % (which matches a growing narrative on the federal political scene).

There has been plenty of activity this week as candidates from all political parties put forward their names to run in Canada's next federal election, scheduled to be held in October 2015.

Ryan's advocacy for cutting taxes and trimming the deficit — he is the architect of the GOP's proposed federal budget — married with his willingness to talk about fiscal belt - tightening in moral terms and his low - key social conservatism speak to a political moment in which the economic concerns of the Tea Party and the social focus of the Christian right have merged into a relatively cohesive anti-Obama movement.

Conversely, it is a dereliction of duty to ignore existing immigration laws and place federal officers in peril and local population in danger for the political gain of either party.

The «social market» program put forward by Konrad Adenauer, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party in the Federal Republic's first parliamentary elections in 1949, was a key element in this social and political transformation.

Grassroots movements have led to the formation of new political parties as witness the «Greens» in the German Federal Republic and the Ecology Party in Britain.

(In the last two election cycles, dietary supplement manufacturers have contributed more than $ 3.3 million to federal candidates and political parties, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Dictating the pace and pattern of political policy was Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of the Northern Region who held sway in Kaduna as leader of the Northern Peoples Congress, NPC, the party that with its allies formed the largest bloc in the federal parliament.

Besides, the pall of politics, on a matter that ought to be 100 per cent judicial, rested on two troubling pillars: the then Federal Electoral Commission (FEDECO) had, in previous decisions, always interpreted twelve - two - thirds of 19 states as 13, even in registering political parties.

The governor says legislators should reveal their outside income even further in an effort to avoid federal investigations like the one that ended Leibell's 28 - year - career, along with so many others in both political parties.

With the political map redrawn by a federal magistrate, both parties believe the outcome of many of the on - the - bubble races in New York could be pivotal for who controls the House next year.

De Blasio's political activities are being scrutinized by federal investigations over the method of helping Senate Democrats take over the chamber in 2014 — namely through a series of massive donations to county party committees, which then disbursed funds on behalf of individual candidates.

The measures, called the New York Votes Act, would create a system of early voting, automatic and same - day registration, consolidate state and federal primaries and shorten the deadline for registering in a political party.

In the United States political parties operate at various levels including local, state, and federal.

Long Island Sen. Phil Boyle, a Suffolk County sheriff candidate, gave the wife of one of his longtime political bosses — Patricia Walsh, married to ex-Suffolk County Conservative Party Chairman Edward Walsh Jr., who was convicted in 2016 on federal charges — a $ 25,000 raise this year.

The group officially obtained recognition as a national political party with the Federal Election Commission in 2001.

Established by the party in 1998 - when talk of an arrangement between Paddy Ashdown and Tony Blair was rife - it states that any «substantial proposal which could affect the party's independence of political action» will need the consent of a majority of Lib Dem MPs and of the party's federal executive.

Following last week's leakage of a video which showed Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha Alhassan, express the hope that Atiku would be President of Nigeria in 2019 and her reiteration of a preference for her political godfather over President Muhammadu Buhari, on whose prerogative she is on the Federal Executive Council, members of the APC have continued to give the impression that they had a cohesive party until this ruffling by Atiku and his loyalists.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats (Welsh: Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru) is a political party in Wales and a member of the federal Liberal Democrats, along with the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the English Liberal Democrats.

The former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell, the MP for North East Fife, who made a similar recommendation for a new Scottish conference in 2012, said it would be «a remarkable opportunity for Scotland as a whole — not just the political parties — to create a relationship with the rest of the UK which to all intents and purposes would be federal».

This includes any activity considered intervention in a political campaign under the Internal Revenue Code, such as direct and indirect contributions to political candidates, parties, or organizations, and independent expenditures or electioneering communications on behalf of federal, state, or local candidates.

Eight federal political committees that have received contributions from Mercer or his daughter, Rebekah, have reported paying Cambridge Analytica in the past, including Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential committee and the North Carolina Republican Party.

«We know that the keys of the secretariat are still with the BoT but Sheriff entered by breaking the doors in an action totally unbecoming of a person who had been governor of a state, Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and also claiming to be a national chairman of a major political party.

Following an investigation, the Commission concluded that Swiftvets did not unlawfully coordinate its activities with, or make excessive in - kind contributions to, any federal candidate or political party committee.

The Kaduna state governor does not see eye to eye with all the federal law makers from Kaduna state because they accused him of taking over the party structure in Kafuna as against the legal provisions that allows for internal democracy within political parties.

Charles McGee, executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, Republican National Committee regional political director James Tobin and GOP consultant Allen Raymond «have been found guilty of criminally violating federal communications law» for their part in a 2002 Election Day phone jamming scheme in New Hampshire, according to the Washington Post.

In the 2012 election, 0.01 percent of the population — a mere 31,385 people — were responsible for 28 percent of all disclosed political contributions to federal candidates, party committees, congressional campaign committees» PACs and super PACs, according to an analysis by the Sunlight Foundation.

The Federal Corrupt Practices Act established campaign spending limits for political parties in House general elections.

One of the political parties in the country, the Democratic Youth Congress, DYC has instituted a legal action against President Muhammadu Buhari at the Federal High Court in Abuja over his delay in declaring his intention to run for the 2019 presidential election.

The move sets the stage for an unprecedented three - way race in which Crist will test whether he can win federal office without the formal backing of a political party.

Beyond the immediate fallout in the Trump era, insiders also point to the potential political problems with the ongoing federal grand jury investigation of campaign contributions by contractors to the federal account of the state Democratic Party and its ties to Malloy's 2014 gubernatorial campaign.

Kalu, a businessman and political party promoter, was welcomed into the ruling party not like some sort of hero, with National Chairman John Odigie - Oyegun leading the honours at the APC headquarters in the federal capital.

His letter partly read, «As you are aware, the activities of all registered political parties are to be in compliance with the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Electoral Act 2010 (as Amended).

«You were a governor before me and you are assuming office at a very delicate period in our national political life not only in terms of the challenges of a new party seeking power at various levels of government including Federal but also at a time when there seems to be a lot of tension in the country and clear frightening security challenges» he said.

Speaking on behalf of Co-ordinators in Uyo Federal Constituency, Prince Uwem Ita Etuk thanked the party leadership for the initiative of involving all stakeholders in the political process and commended Governor Udom Emmanuel for giving a new lease of life to the party in the state and promised to work for the success of the party.

He says that during campaigns for the federal election held in July — after the massive bleaching event of earlier this year — both major political parties promised measures to protect the reef, but neither offered anything to address the «root cause of the problem, which is global warming.»

Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, a cosponsor of the «Three R's» bill, worked tirelessly, and against considerable opposition from members of both political parties, to increase the targeting of federal education dollars to low - income communities and schools in an effort to better support their school reform efforts.