Sentences with phrase «industry minister told»

WASHINGTON — Canada's industry minister told an American audience on Wednesday that the Burger King file has landed on his desk, and he expects it to be processed within a few weeks.

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Russia's industry and trade minister told reporters last week that the government had not received a detailed request for help from any of Deripaska's companies.

In a press conference last night and in a subsequent interview, Industry Minister James Moore told me the government is certainly expecting Videotron to bring service to Ontario, Alberta and B.C. «The money is non-refundable and that spectrum can not be transferred to the Big Three.

The lumber duties are «unjust and punitive» and Canada will continue to push back against American industry, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters in Brampton, Ontario.

«Fortunately the data that has been taken is commercial data, not military data... it's not classified information,» Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne told Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio.

Industry Minister Christian Paradis has remained silent on the issue, but last week the Canadian Marketing Association told its members that further consultations are now planned and that the law will not take effect until the middle of 2012 at the earliest.

«The most important thing about the future frigates project is that the navy gets the capability it needs to defend the nation and to maintain our national security and national interests in the region,» Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne told The Australian Financial Review.

Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane, who is responsible for science, told Parliament Australians in general had lost interest in science.

But in a sign of how vulnerable the live export sector feels right now, the Australian Live Exporters Council (ALEC) chairman Simon Crean has sent a letter to Agriculture Minister David Littleproud, telling him the industry would discuss the proposal.

The Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Murtala Mohammed, addressing supporters did not mince words when he told Dr Bawumia that «economic figures mean nothing to electorates in Walewale, GDP growth has done ABC is useless to electorates.

He said at a time when agro-businesses are collapsing, industries are suffocating and workers are being laid off, a situation that requires that the people are given hope, further taxes of pensions and allowances are a no, no and the Finance Minister can not be telling Ghanaians to look out for more.

«May 9 is our magic date,» Liberian Minister of Commerce and Industry Axel Addy told reporters earlier this week, according to Voice of America.

Baroness Chalker, the Minister for Overseas Development, tells me she welcomes closer collaboration between the pharmaceuticals industry, the WHO, and aid donors.

At the Cannes Film Festival last week Margot James, minister for the digital and creative industries told Variety it would not have a significant impact on the U.K. film industry.

Ian Macfarlane, the Coalition energy spokesman and likely future Energy Minister, today told the Australian clean energy industry that it needed to look beyond wind and solar as renewable energy sources, because they were unreliable and too expensive.

The Prime Minister told this highly select group that his Government was in political trouble over greenhouse policy as it was being out - manoeuvred by the NSW Government and by Mark Latham who was benefiting politically from his promise to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and support the renewable energy industries.

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.

Industry Minister Clement told Parliament he will not allow the same decision to be passed by the CRTC, but has not specified whether he will accept a watered - down version of that decision.

Competitiveness minister Stephen Timms told the Confederation of British Industry conference last week that aspects of the Act had to be put on hold because Companies House is not ready.

«This transaction is in fact subject to review under the Investment Canada Act,» Federal Industry Minister Tony Clement told reporters in a news conference yesterday.

In response to the comments by Heins, Canada's Industry Minister Christian Paradis told Reuters earlier this week that Canada may even go to the extent of reviewing a sale of RIM's handset business if such a deal was proposed.

The U.K.'s City Minister, John Glen, told reporters at the Treasury's International Fintech conference on Thursday that «proportionate» regulations could give the local cryptocurrency industry a significant boost.