Sentences with phrase «government policy paper»

A government policy paper on sexual health has been delayed, while its review of personal, social, health and economics remains unpublished.
Oil sands development is a matter of provincial government policy: in a government policy paper (the Mineable Oil Sands Strategy) issued a few years ago (and since recalled), the core area of the oil sands resources in Alberta was designated a «sacrifice zone», within which it was acknowledged that significant and irreversible environmental impact would be permitted to occur, to enable the realization of the significant economic benefits such development promised.

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As Jay Myers, president and CEO of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters told the paper, the stable government could» remove some of the partisan and political calculations out of some of these major policy decisions.»
Internet development in Singapore, states the paper, has been very fast even though the government has implemented less - than - ideal policies.
On paper, the recommendations for debt relief and reduced austerity «suddenly evaporate when IMF functionaries coalesce with their ECB and the European Commission colleagues in order to impose upon our government their chosen policies,» said Mr Varoufakis.
Treasury yields on Friday book a weekly drop as geopolitical instability keeps investors pouring into the perceived safety of government paper, but for the day, rates of government paper rise as a robust raft of economic data suggested U.S. growth would maintain its steady clip, ahead of a key monetary - policy update on Wednesday.
The paper concludes that with the policy changes to date, including budget cuts and the changes to the Canada Health Act and to the elderly benefit system, the federal government will have a long - term sustainable fiscal structure characterized by a declining debt to GDP ratio.
This paper explores the concept of What Works Centres, independent and non-partisan organizations structured to create, collect and curate evidence on public policy challenges and the success — and failure — of government and community - based interventions.
I'm sure there's a lot of ink on these in today's papers, mainly around proposals to raise the retirement age (which we actually did two years ago, except the Trudeau government reversed it, but now evidence - based policy FTW, as the kids say).
However if you read their policy and look at papers that their base follows where they had articles, you know exactly what they would have done if they would have formed government.
While the widely - read paper is run by the ruling Communist Party's People's Daily, its stance does not necessarily equate with Chinese government policy.
The paper declares that «there is a need to adopt a strategic option on behalf of the poor and disadvantaged in the formulation of government spending policy,» which is true.
The Australian and New Zealand Government's Food Regulation Policy Options Paper on caffeine acknowledges the Beverages Council's Energy Drink Industry Commitment document and notes that «while these self - regulatory codes only formally apply to members of those organisations, their existence and application across the market may also affect the behaviour of non-members that are aware of them.»
Going, going: the Abbott government appears to have ditched the centrepiece of the Gillard government's foreign policy, the Australia in the Asian Century white paper.
A less obvious policy contradiction in the Green Paper relates to the government's claim about «supplying the Asian century».
Policy Reform participation in the development of industry submissions, responses to government discussion papers, and the regulatory review processes.
A new policy paper from LARAC, released today (11 April), calls on the government to introduce direct charging for household waste collections and PRN reform to increase recycling and tackle the funding crisis crippling UK local authorities.
In our paper Addressing Fatherlessness: how Government can strengthen the active presence of fathers in their children's lives, we outline the key policy reforms politicians should be making to tackle fatherlessness.
The Government's White Paper Joint Birth Registration: Recording Responsibility, published on 2 June 2008 is, potentially, the most significant advance in fatherhood policy made by this Government.
In our Promoting Strong Couple Relationships paper we considered a range of options for how the Coalition Government might use the promotion of strong couple relationships in its policy development, thus enabling a shift away from public services focused solely or primarily on the mother and child.
Commenting on today's government consultation paper on «Strengthening Tax Avoidance Sanctions and Deterrents», John Cullinane, Tax Policy Director of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, said: «This is the latest in a series of measures cracking down on those who profit from tax avoidance schemes.
Clarke's Green Paper on sentencing policy reform, while not by any means ideal, is easily the best thing we can hope for on several fronts, including especially the national scandal of IPPs; and Clarke, with LibDem help, is an essential brake on illiberal proposals, instincts and policies elsewhere in government, especially the home office (as usual).
When the Scottish government released its White Paper outlining what an independent Scotland might look like, migration policy was a small but essential element of it.
The journal articles, policy papers and events arising from this research will support the sharing of good practice across the profession and in government.
John Cullinane, CIOT's Tax Policy Director, said: «We welcome the publication of the customs paper and that government is addressing customs in the negotiation process.
The holder of the office has ultimate power over, and responsibility for, all policies made and implemented by government, seeing all Cabinet papers and being the sole arbiter of disputes between the organs of government.
Cohen contends that the white paper should be seen not as actual U.S. policy, but rather as a kind of «trial balloon» that the executive branch is floating to assert more power for itself, and to which other branches of the U.S. government will rightly respond.
The FSB has launched a new policy paper calling on the Government to hold a national conference to help better prepare for bad weather following weeks of snow.
Empire Ideas is a series of policy papers focusing on topics of concern to local governments.
Today I have published a paper with the Centre for Policy Studies that sets out how the Labour Government has wrecked our country's finances.
Three days prior, I sent around a confirmation email with the event details, a briefing paper stuffed with policy ideas and some rather unkind comments about the government's position.
The IET makes a number of recommendations in its policy paper, including that the government encourages greater use of the SBRI via financial incentives for public bodies and that a similar scheme should be explored at the EU level.
Speaking on Joy FM Wednesday, Kofi Adams, who is the campaign coordinator of the NDC said, «nobody is copying Nana Addo,» and that the policy highlights presented by President Mahama are captured in the government White Paper.
«Having introduced, when it came to office, policies which have undermined consistently the professional status of teachers, it is a further indictment on this Government that after four and a half years it is now only offering up what is basically a blank sheet of paper, placing the responsibility on teachers to re-establish esteem in the teaching profession.
The Cabinet Office have launched an investigation after the prime minister's chief policy adviser was caught dumping government papers in the park.
The government carried out a review of adoption policy and process in 2000 and detailed the findings in a white paper entitled Adoption: A New Approach.
Presenting the IEA's position paper, Dr. Ofori Mensah called for a second look at the policy on the sale of government vehicles to outgoing functionaries.
Shockingly, the cabinet papers also show that the Tories were willing to go as far as declaring a state of emergency and deploying the Army in order to gain victory over the striking miners and the unions — confirmation that it was a central tenet of government policy to regard tax - paying, law - abiding colliery workers, locked in struggle to defend their jobs and their way of life, as (to use that awful phrase of Margaret Thatcher's) «the enemy within».
The federal Department of Education reports it received more than 1,200 responses to the government's policy options paper released in the 2016 - 17 budget.
A genuine and sustained debate among MPs about the details of the policy regime, much of it centred around the proposals in a paper from moderate backbench critics Alan Whitehead and Peter Bradley, has led to significant government concessions and a new focus on questions of increasing access to university from a broader social intake.
In a paper published today in Journal of Applied Ecology, Marcelo Aizen from the Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina, and colleagues from four countries draw attention to the severe conservation, economic and political consequences of intentional species introductions supported by government policies.
«This paper should alert policy makers and government to the help and support that farmers will need to achieve the scale of agricultural change that may be necessary to keep up with the increase in pollution due to climate change.»
Governments need to give technical experts more autonomy and hold their nerve to provide more long - term stability when investing in clean energy, argue researchers in climate change and innovation policy in a new paper published today.
The DTI says it is «all for» a prototype project, but that a decision on funding is being delayed by changes in government policy, announced in the recent White Paper on science and technology.
In an age where cybersecurity is of foremost interest for governments and businesses, public and private organizations must deploy risk - intelligence governance to secure their digital communications and resources from eavesdropping, theft or attack, according to a new paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Although there is no new money, paragraph 1.17 of the White Paper states that: «The government will continue to allocate public resources to science and engineering on the scale necessary to finance the policies in this White Paper
«Our next step is to perform a health - economic analysis to show that the reduction in multiple pregnancy rates results does indeed result in a financial benefit for the government, so that the refunding of six cycles is still a responsible policy,» said Professor Thomas D'Hooghe, last author of the paper and head of the Leuven University Fertility Center.
Arnulf Grubler, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, wrote in a 2010 paper published in the journal Energy Policy that France's success in nuclear energy stemmed from establishing a standard design for reactors, centralized decisionmaking and certainty that the government was committed to nuclear power.
«This paper offers private insurers, physicians, health policy experts, and government leaders a comprehensive review,» said IHME's Director, Dr. Christopher Murray.
In March, the government released its white paper, Educational Excellence Everywhere, with the headline policy that all schools would have to convert to academy status by 2022.
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