Sentences with phrase «last federal budget»

This program was mandated by the last federal budget, filling in a significant data gap in housing statistics.

That said, in the last federal budget, the Home Accessibility Tax Credit was introduced.

If you haven't seen the all the ads touting the TFSA's value, here's a quick primer: the TFSA was introduced by the Conservative government in the last federal budget.

In the last federal budget, Natural Resources Canada was allocated $ 2.5 million over the next two years to study regional clean energy cooperation, with the aim of identifying «the most promising electricity infrastructure projects with the potential to achieve significant greenhouse gas reductions.»

Take a look at the specific language of the government's amendments in the last federal budget to the Investment Canada Act (Bill C - 60).

Canadian Business already wrote the penny's obit last spring, after the last federal budget confirmed that

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When the federal government dropped the budget last year, the Liberals put a big emphasis on helping Canada become more innovative.

While last week's budget vote cleared the way to begin the tax reform effort, 20 Republicans voted against it, citing issues with the elimination of state and local tax deductions and a massive expansion of the federal deficit.

Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released his 2017 federal budget.

Last week, the House narrowly approved a Senate version of the 2018 federal budget, clearing the path for the Republican - controlled Senate to pass its tax reform plan later this year.

The bank said the impacts on inflation and growth from commitments in last month's federal budget would be incorporated into its April projections.

The government has promised such rules, reiterated in the federal budget last week, which will make it easier and cheaper for competing wireless providers to get decent roaming rates on the Big Three networks.

Under a continuing resolution passed last week in place of actual federal spending bills, Pentagon budgets are capped at 2015 levels, severely limiting the service branches» ability to start new programs or even shutdown programs they don't need anymore.

As the budget process illustrated last year, the federal government can use subsequent budget omnibus bills to include changes not mentioned in March budgets.

He noted the federal government's budget last month made commitments aimed at increasing the labour - force participation of women.

The federal government has already signalled its intention to enhance consumer banking protection in its budget last month.

The latest federal forecast, released last October, projected a $ 14.3 - billion deficit for 2019 - 20 and doubts persist that Tuesday's budget will show a revised timeline for getting back to black.

And late last year, the Republican tax cut was enacted that will add more than $ 1 trillion to federal budget deficits over a decade.

At that point, assuming the bridge that lasts 50 years, the government would charge the federal budget $ 100 million a year for 50 years, along with the annual interest costs associated with the borrowing.

Notwithstanding the Conservatives» repeated rejections of the PBO claim, last year's budget was an implicit admission that a significant portion of the federal government's deficit was structural.

, which is not entirely fair, as most anyone who follows federal politics will know Mr. Wilks as the backbencher who was very briefly concerned about one of last year's budget bills.)

As the president's last budget director, he helped engineer the only federal surplus to be recorded over a span of almost 40 years.

Last spring's federal budget, under the heading «Canada's Digital Future,» promised reviews of the key laws covering the entertainment and information industries — the Broadcasting Act, Telecommunications Act and Copyright Act — all with a focus on «the role of Canadian content in an increasingly digital world.»

The acquisition is part of a plan to create an oil major that was first outlined by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley while presenting the federal budget in February last year.

In a dress rehearsal for this November's mid-term election, Democrats and Republicans vied last week for who could denounce the banks and blame the other party the most for the giveaways to Wall Street that have swollen the public debt since September 2008, pushing the federal budget into deficit and the economy into a slump.

Democrats Say «Bye» to Populist Option In a dress rehearsal for this November's mid-term election, Democrats and Republicans vied last week for who could denounce the banks and blame the other party the most for the giveaways to Wall Street that have swollen the public debt since September 2008, pushing the federal budget into deficit and the economy into a slump.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page, in his last week on the job, is taking the government to court in a bid to have Ottawa release information about the impacts on federal jobs and services from $ 5.2 billion in cuts announced in last year's budget.Photo by Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press / Files

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

The 2018 federal budget, while not as transformative as last year's, had important new initiatives related to housing and homelessness.

Marceau also took aim at Ottawa, saying last week's federal budget heralded the return of a fiscal imbalance between Ottawa and the provinces.

President Donald Trump unveiled a $ 4.4 trillion budget plan Monday that envisions steep cuts to America's social safety net but mounting spending on the military, formally retreating from last year's promises to balance the federal budget.

The federal review of tax expenditures was announced in last year's budget alongside a pledge to give the Canada Revenue Agency more money to fight offshore tax evasion.

On Thursday, while exploring the implications of the federal government's tariff changes that were announced in last month's budget, I made what I believed to be a shocking discovery.

But the recent federal budget approved last month could offer much needed relief with more than $ 1 billion included for dairy farmers.

Trump unveiled a $ 4.4 trillion budget for next year that heralds an era of $ 1 trillion - plus federal deficits and — unlike the plan he released last year — never comes close to promising a balanced ledger even after 10 years.

Those measures include $ 850 million to offset Medicaid expenditures that the federal government disputed and disallowed, as well as $ 627 million in «general budget support» during the last three fiscal years, the analysis said.

ESD last year tried to direct $ 15 million from the «transformative investment fund,» a $ 400 million pot created in the 2015 - 16 budget by former Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos, who left office after he was convicted of several federal felonies for trading official actions for payments to his son.

Adding back temporary federal stimulus funds used to supplement state funds in each of the last three years, state operating spending under the new budget is up a whopping 8.4 percent over 2007 - 08, although both personal income and private - sector economic activity in New York has dropped sharply during the Great Recession.

Cuomo led and closed his 2018 - 19 budget address Tuesday by underscoring the need to adapt a dramatic change in the state tax code to counter a federal tax law passed last month by the Republican - controlled Congress and President Donald Trump.

In addition, our last Erie County budget provided funding for two new sheriff's deputies whose primary task will be combatting narcotics, and I also provided funding to keep the Domestic Violence unit in the District Attorney's office functioning after federal funding for the program was lost.

He ignored the recommendations of his own bipartisan deficit reduction commission, proposed a federal budget that was so political it was rejected 97 - 0 by the Senate, reneged on a deficit compromise last summer and went AWOL on the supercommittee deliberations.

De Blasio revealed an $ 82.1 billion preliminary spending plan, including federal and state aid for the coming fiscal year — a $ 3.5 billion overall spending increase from the $ 78.5 billion budget plan approved by the City Council last June for the current fiscal year.

After five years of bitter clashes, Republican congressional leaders and President Obama last night appeared to settle their final budget fight by reaching a tentative deal that would modestly increase spending over the next two years, cut some social programs, and raise the federal borrowing limit.

The budget released last week comes when the state faces a $ 4.4 billion shortfall, a number largely expected to widen as changes to the federal tax code take effect.

Now, under Cuomo's new budget plan, roughly $ 850 million out of a $ 5.4 billion surplus — generated by nearly a dozen major financial settlements finalized last year — would be set aside in reserves to settle «federal risks.»

Using a current - law baseline measure, the state budget gap for fiscal 2018 - 19 alone was last projected by DOB at $ 4 billion, a figure the governor himself began citing recently (without further explanation) in his recent warnings about the implications of federal health care spending cuts.

The last time the Federal budget was balanced was in 1999 under the Bill Clinton administration, and American debts race towards the 20 Trillion dollar mark.

The Assembly's budget resolution may targets the gains richer New York taxpayers made in the federal tax law approved late last year, Speaker Carl Heastie said on Monday.

«The last time I talked to the county exec, it sounded like everything was going through and he had given me his word that he was going to find funding for... the remainder of the project,» Adam Skelos said, adding that Mangano told him that if federal funds didn't work out, he would look in the Department of Public Works budget.

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, says he has presented a memo to the Federal Executive Council, FEC, on the recent release of economic performance of the country in the last quarter which showed that the Gross Domestic Product, GDP, grew by 1.92 percent.