Sentences with phrase «first industry minister»
Bernier served as Harper's first industry minister and later in Foreign Affairs.
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First, federal Industry Minister Christian Paradis is expected to rule soon on whether the CNOOC - Nexen transaction should proceed.
When [Industry] Minister [James Moore] first became Minister, he sat down with stakeholders and did a roundtable.
Minister of Canadian Heritage Mélanie Joly will lead Canada's first creative industries trade mission to China this week alongside 60 cultural businesses and organizations.
Recently the Tasmanian Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (AWAC) recognised the unacceptable cruelty permitted by the flawed national code, and recommended to the Primary Industries Minister, Bryan Green, that Tasmania take a leading role to become the first state to outlaw the cruel practice of confining sows in stalls.
Assistant Agriculture and Water Resources Minister Luke Hartsuyker announced today two more recipients of the $ 5 million Leadership in Agricultural Industries Fund that was first revealed in last year's Coalition farm election policy package.
After cabinet first considered the proposed grant last year, the industry minister, Ian Macfarlane, appointed a panel to report back on the company's long - term sustainability.
The first minister based his assumptions on a Scottish government paper released on Tuesday, which sets out the Scottish National party's administration for the oil industry if it secures independence.
The Trade and Industry Minister - designate Alan Kyeremanten has indicated that the first sign of the New Patriotic Party's one district, one factory policy could be up within six months.
And earlier this week, I was delighted that Prime Minister Gentiloni was able to join President Macron and myself in convening the first ever UN summit of government and industry to move further and faster in preventing terrorist use of the Internet.
To show he is not about to pull any punches, Buhari has gone after Diezani Alison - Madueke, the first female to be made Oil Minister in charge of the sprawling Nigerian oil industry.
Read also: Hanna Tetteh congratulates Ayorkor Botchway on appointment The first batch of appointees are: Senior Minister designate — Yaw Osafo Marfo National Security Minister designate — Albert Kan Dapaah Trade and Industry Minister designate — Alan Kyeremateng Finance Minister designate — Ken Ofori Atta Minister of Agriculture designate — Dr. Akoto Osei Afriyie Energy Minister designate — Boakye Agyarko Defence Minister designate — Dominic Nitiwul Foreign Affairs Minister designate — Shirley Ayorkor Botchway Interior Minister designate — Ambrose Dery Attorney General Minister designate — Gloria Akufo Local Government Minister designate — Hajia Alima Mahama Education Minister designate — Mathew Opoku Prempeh Health Minister designate — Kwaku Agyemang - Manu
And it's good to see a senior Labour Party figure — probably for the first time since Robin Cook was Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry in the early 1990s — make a strong case for industrial policy.
Kirsty Williams, Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, today urged the First Minister to support her party's calls to scrap business rates for plant and machinery in Wales and to reduce the level of VAT that is levied on the tourism industry.
He was accompanied by the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo - Addo; Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, MP; Minister for Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen; Minster for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba; Minister for Business Development, Awal Mohammed; and officials from the Presidency and Foreign Ministry.
In an editorial published in Science in 2015, Mohammad Farhadi, Iran's Minister of Science, Research and Technology, said that sanctions «pushed its science, industry, and service sectors to cooperate in new and fruitful ways and also forced scientists to work more creatively and promote a knowledge - based economy for the first time in Iran's history.»
He initially decided against appointing a science minister, making it the first time since 1931 the post had been vacant, before agreeing last December to add science to the industry minister's title.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: «Our school leavers now have a widening range of opportunities available - from industry - led technical professional options to long standing well - established academic routes.
Three decades later, with Japan's electronics industry in decline, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is heading to Silicon Valley - the first...
For example, at the first meeting of the Ministerial Taskforce on Longer Term Economic Growth in 1985, which included five senior Hawke Government (Labor) Cabinet members, the Chair, Industry Minister Senator John Button, told the assembled economists etc (mainly economists) to forget ALP policy, to forget ACTU policy, what the government wanted to know was how best to proceed for the Australian community as a whole.