Sentences with phrase «last federal election»

Two months before the last federal election, Stephen Harper sat down with CBC's Peter Mansbridge and uttered a line that he'd quickly regret: «I think there's probably some great buying opportunities emerging in the stock market.»

Westmount's richest residents equally supported Conservatives and the Liberals in the last federal election.

While it may feel like a lifetime or two since the last federal election, when Trudeau was promising a very different kind of democratic reform, 19 months isn't a long time to get Canada's electoral system protected from 2019 - style threats to its fairness and integrity.

In the last federal election, nearly four in ten eligible voters stayed away from the polls.

After the last federal election, Premier Gordon Campbell renewed calls to lift the moratorium, saying «We've got to encourage investment; we've got to encourage jobs; we've got to reduce unnecessary regulations.»

During the last federal election cycle, in 2014, the NRA's spending on behalf of Democrats dwindled to virtually nothing, even as its overall election - related spending soared to more than $ 32 million.

New Canadian governing party: «2015 will be the last federal election under the first - past - the - post voting system.»

It received an additional push after the last federal election in 1998, in which a conservative government was replaced by a Social Democratic Party (SPD)- Green coalition.

During the last federal election there was blitz throughout regional Australia from the Government claiming Labor's decision to ratify would see regional economies gutted.

Paulsen was senior vice president and general manager of Fleishman - Hillard Canada, and was also a «spokesperson for the Conservative party in the last federal election and co-chaired the 2006 Alberta Provincial PC Convention.»

All four opposition parties in the Canadian Parliament — who together won 60 percent of the vote in the last federal election — are opposed to Northern Gateway and support an oil tanker ban.

Mosley was dealing with the now notorious robocall scandal that afflicted the last federal election.

On June 26, 2009 Elections Canada released its report and related surveys 40th General Election Evaluations, assessing our last federal election held on October 14, 2008.

We are committed to ensuring that 2015 will be the last federal election conducted under the first - past - the - post voting system.

One of the most contentious aspects of the last Federal election was the platform of the incumbent government, which included powers that allowed the government to strip Canadians of their citizenship based on national security.

Now to the «Fair Elections Act» and its relationship to grain transportation: Canada's Chief Electoral Officer, who currently reports directly to Parliament, exposed the unethical interference of the Conservatives in the lead - up to the last federal election, for which their knuckles were soundly rapped.

In his ruling of last May on the so - called «robocall» case, Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley said, unequivocally, that he was convinced that there had been widespread fraud of that nature during the last federal election campaign.

here was a lot of hope an optimism with respect to the initial statements made by the prime minister of Canada, but his actions, in terms of approving the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, the approval of the Site C (hydroelectric) dam, and the (Pacific Northwest) Lelu Island LNG facility (later cancelled) were all a betrayal of the commitments made during the last federal election.»

«There was a lot of hope an optimism with respect to the initial statements made by the prime minister of Canada, but his actions, in terms of approving the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, the approval of the Site C (hydroelectric) dam, and the (Pacific Northwest) Lelu Island LNG facility (later cancelled) were all a betrayal of the commitments made during the last federal election.»

Elections Canada's Retrospective Report on the last federal election has just been released.

Mr. Justice Rothstein: During the last federal election, former Prime Minister Martin surprised us all during the leadership debates by promising to abolish federal use of the Not - Withstanding Clause.

With all the recent news of election fraud and automated phone calls or robocalls directing voters to the wrong polling station in the last federal election, it is worthwhile to take a walk through the Canada Elections Act and particularly look at the Act's mechanism for enforcement.

Janke is being sued for remarks he published about a Liberal Party official during and after the last federal election.

Prior to our last Federal Election, the CFIB sent a questionaire to each of the party leaders to assess their level of support for entrepreneurs and small business.

In the last federal election, he served as campaign manager for Saint John MP Rodney Weston.

«During the last federal election the board sponsored eight all - candidates meetings in various locations.