Sentences with phrase «former federal minister»

The late Jim Flaherty, former federal Minister of Finance, received several mentions from REM's expert panel.

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,...

Former federal minister Jason Kenney is newly installed in the legislature as United Conservative opposition leader, and should he win, as widely expected, he says he would set the province on a more aggressive fiscal reordering, eliminating deficits one year more quickly.

The former federal minister is the perceived frontrunner to lead this new party fusing Alberta's Wildrose and Tory oppositions, but no matter which candidate succeeds, UCP will have a leader prone to jousting outside the provincial lines.

Not exact matches

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.

A former federal and provincial deputy minister, his research interests include Canadian manufacturing and federal and provincial fiscal policy.

He recalls a speech by former federal politician Alastair Gillespie, who served as minister of Industry between 1972 and 1975.

And as a former federal environment and aboriginal affairs minister, he has the experience needed to quell the opposition that has bedevilled resource development in the province.

Deluce has friends in high places: the former CEO of the Port Authority who helped him get Porter off the ground, Lisa Raitt, is now the federal minister of transport.

«WELL, here we are again» were the words former prime minister Paul Keating uttered when announcing the 1996 Federal election he would lose to John Howard.

Former federal resources minister Martin Ferguson has joined the board of trustees of the University of Western Australia's Energy and Minerals Institute.

As CIBC vice-chair Jim Prentice, a former federal environment minister, noted at a business forum in Lake Louise, Alta., in November, «a lot of assumptions have been based on the seemingly insatiable appetite of the United States for energy.

The advisory council is being led by former Ontario health minister Eric Hoskins, who resigned from his post in the provincial legislature the day before the federal budget.

Predictions had barely been tabled for who would replace Jim Flaherty as finance minister before it was announced late Tuesday that his successor would be Joe Oliver, the federal government's (now former) natural resources minister.

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.

David Dodge, a former Deputy Minister of Finance, Deputy Minister of Health, and Governor of the Bank of Canada, has recently released a study on the growing costs of health care in Canada in the coming decades and the impact they could have on all governments — federal and provincial.

Since 2004, Canada has elected two successive minority governments: first, a minority Liberal government, helmed by former Prime Minister Paul Martin, and then the Conservative minority government helmed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper that fell when the Prime Minister asked Canada's Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, to dissolve the last Parliament and Canada's 40th federal election got underway.

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.

The former federal Conservative immigration minister has long been considered in an organizational class of his own.

In the 2018 federal budget, the government announced the creation of an Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare, which will be headed up by former Ontario health minister Dr. Eric Hoskins.

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.

Kenney, once a cabinet minister under former prime minister Stephen Harper, was long considered the front - runner to replace Harper as leader of the federal Conservatives.

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Mr. Kenney is a skilled politician, but he would ominously follow in the footsteps of another former federal Conservative cabinet minister, Jim Prentice, who jumped into provincial politics in 2014 before leading the 44 - year old PC government to defeat in May 2015.

The appointment of Ottawa MP Catherine McKenna as Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and former environment minister Stephane Dion as Minister of Foreign Affairs signals that the new federal government may not be as singularly focused on pipelines as the previous govMinister of Environment and Climate Change, and former environment minister Stephane Dion as Minister of Foreign Affairs signals that the new federal government may not be as singularly focused on pipelines as the previous govminister Stephane Dion as Minister of Foreign Affairs signals that the new federal government may not be as singularly focused on pipelines as the previous govMinister of Foreign Affairs signals that the new federal government may not be as singularly focused on pipelines as the previous government.

Today the Globe & Mail described Jim Prentice as «a former banker and high - ranking federal cabinet minister... highly respected by the country's business establishment».

The rally featured Neal Bernard «The Roughneck» Hancock removing his shoes and throwing them at the doors of the Legislature, former federal cabinet minister Chris Alexander appearing to nod as protesters chanted «lock her up» in reference to Premier Rachel Notley, and climate change denying, anti-gay and anti-immigration messages on signs and pamphlets.

David Dodge is senior adviser at Bennett Jones and former federal deputy minister of health.

The person most often cited as the biggest federal rival to Kenney is former cabinet minister Peter MacKay, who still has not publicly declared his plans.

In Saturday's case, a former federal cabinet minister renowned as one of his generation's shrewdest campaigners made good on yet another case of frontrunner status, having earlier this year easily seized the helm of the creaky PC ship and seamlessly executed a merger vote to fuse the Tories and Wildrosers into a single party.

Then, a couple of things went Kenney's way: opposing candidates waited until late September to go public, giving the former federal Conservative minister miles of runway to mount a province - wide pickup - truck tour.

In the months immediately preceding the federal election, former Prime Minister Harper was aggressive.

In recent months Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and former federal natural resources minister Joe Oliver have all advocated for more bitumen export pipelines, while British Columbia premier Christy Clark has lauded the benefits of LNG projects and natural gas pipelines from fracking operations in northMinister Justin Trudeau, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and former federal natural resources minister Joe Oliver have all advocated for more bitumen export pipelines, while British Columbia premier Christy Clark has lauded the benefits of LNG projects and natural gas pipelines from fracking operations in northminister Joe Oliver have all advocated for more bitumen export pipelines, while British Columbia premier Christy Clark has lauded the benefits of LNG projects and natural gas pipelines from fracking operations in northern B.C.

Former Australian Federal Industry Minister for Industry and Science, Mr Ian Macfarlane, second left, performs the official launch ceremony, congratulating the Managing Director of NH foods Australia Mr Takeo Kudo and (right) the General Manager, Overseas Operations Department, Fresh Meat Business Division, NH Foods Mr Norio Itazaki and (at left) the General Manager of Oakey Beef Exports Mr Pat Gleeson.

At the launch of the Oakey Abattoir COHRAL ™ in 2015, former Federal Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane said «Other meat works will follow them.

Amid the latest controversy surrounding shipments to the Middle East - ignited by video footage provided to 60 Minutes by Animals Australia which has an agenda to ban live exports - federal Labor took the opportunity to attack Barnaby Joyce on agricultural «bipartisanship» saying the former Agriculture Minister rejected it four years ago.

Peter Mares: OK, the state and federal health ministers commissioned this review, they asked Dr Blewett, a former health minister, to look at the evidence, he looked at the evidence, he made the recommendation, and now you say there's no evidence.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has reacted to «a story entitled, CJN, Okonjo - Iweala, Fayemi, Fayose, Others Under Probe - EFCC, which appeared in The Punch Newspaper of today Wednesday September 6, 2017 regarding a list of high profile persons, including the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Kayode Fayemi and Justice Abdu Kafarati of the Federal High Court, who are said to be currently under investigation by the Commission.

«This latest action by EFCC has confirmed rumours making the rounds that the federal government wants to give the former Minister of Aviation the Dasuki / Naamdi Kanu treatment, a treatment alien to our laws but is fast becoming the norm under the current administration.

Former vice president Atiku Abubakar Saturday said, with the newly inaugurated ministers that constitutes President Muhammadu Buhari's Federal cabinet, «greater confidence is likely to be reposed in our economy by investors both local and foreign.»

On Tuesday, a federal high court in Lagos had remanded him in prison alongside former Minister for Finance, Nenandi Usman, Mr. Danjuma Yusuf and a company, Joint Trust Nigeria Limited, on alleged money laundering to the tune of N4.9 billion.

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday, has ordered the former Minister of PETROLEUM resources, Diezani Allison - Madueke to forfeit 153.3 million dollars domiciled in three NIgerian banks to Federal Government.

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

His words: «As a former minister of the Federal Republic, I should not be seen in partisanship.

Many dignitaries, including ministers attended the event, in which former managing director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, Malam Gimba Kumo, was the groom.

The slots of Kogi and Gombe states in the federal cabinet had been vacant following the death of the Minister of State for Labour, Mr. James Ocholi (SAN), in an accident on March 6, 2016; and the appointment of former Minister of the Environment, Amina Mohammed, as the Deputy Secretary - General of the United Nations.

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.

This include the sum of $ 43 million recovered from Deziani Allison - Madueke, Nigeria's former Minister of Petroleum and N2 billion spread in seven accounts within three Nigerian Bank laundered from the Federal Capital Territory Police Command Salary Accounts», he explained.

Obi said Dr. Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, former Minister of Finance, and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, begged the Federal Government to build its savings but -LSB-...]