Sentences with phrase «legislated limits»

While the rest of Canada is discussing getting rid of caps on awards for pain and suffering the current government in BC and ICBC may be pushing for legislated limits on these types of awards.

And in October or November, according to the latest estimates by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the government will once again hit its self - imposed debt ceiling, a legislated limit on how much the country can borrow.

Both the increase in applicants for more than one charter and an increased number of total applicants show that the headline - grabbing ballot initiative to open more charters managed to raise interest in them, even though it failed to raise their legislated limit.

Not exact matches

Schatz said limiting legislating to only those who are well - versed in tech policy could have worse outcomes.

«We think there's a practical time limit, not a contractual one, not a legislated one, but a practical time limit on the negotiations due to the political calendar,» Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told a congressional hearing this week.

It is a perfectly consistent position to hold that lawmakers have a moral obligation to legislate in accordance with the natural law and to hold that judges possess only the limited authority to interpret those laws according to the lawmakers» original meaning.

When you see something like this you will see that we obviously can not legislate this sort of morality, because while we might need to (as a practical matter) try to limit the amount of evil people do, we can not in good conscience try to force them into being heroes.

Occasionally, it makes sense for the UK government to legislate on devolved issues - for example when limited provision in a UK bill would affect Scotland.

Sunder, a closer read of your post indicates that people ARE proposing to legislate top wage limits.

Omitting or limiting these core provisions enabled the Chinese government to continue legislating in favour of Chinese state - owned enterprises and avoided recourse to international arbitration by foreign investors.

Clearly this could limit the flexibility of future governments when it comes to legislating.

It is current UK government policy to pass a law removing the 15 - year limit on expatriate Britons voting before the next general election takes place, as mentioned in the 2017 Conservative Party manifesto, which stated (page 42) «We will legislate for votes for life for British overseas electors».

@jackdromeymp @bbcr4today If he never anticipated councils setting Council tax rises at 1.99 % Why did he legislate a 2 % limit Not a loophole

The executive is unable to legislate on his (or her) own, and is thus limited in important ways.

Initially legislated as a pedagogical tool to address lagging Hispanic performance, its early proponents argued that students with limited English proficiency (LEP) would benefit from deferring the transition to English so they could concentrate on core curricular skills in subjects such as mathematics and science.

When Mercury is in retrograde, the unions want to limit their growth or legislate the publicly - funded schools of choice out of existence.

The government has decoupled TFSA limit increases from inflation, meaning any further increase to contribution limits will have to be legislated.

Given the recent decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to limit the extent of sports wagering in Delaware and the higher gaming tax rates that were recently legislated, we decided not to proceed with this project.

This is usually how it goes: politician wannabe gets campaign contributions from private sector guy, gets into office, legislates in favor of private sector guy, private sector guy contributes more, politician guy takes vacation in Italy (or goes for a hike on the Appalachian trail)... gets re-elected, the word gets out that he «plays,» more private sector guys contribute to his campaign, voters are pleased to see the name of their representative in print, like the new wardrobe, the new hairstyle, believe all change is good and re-elect the politician again... politician feels the power, creates agency to watch over private sector guy, agency takes fact - finding trip to France... raises taxes on private sector guy, writes legislation that taxes private sector guy if his plant emits CO2 while producing widgets... voters are in awe and re-elect the politician... private sector guy whines, politician makes him ambassador to Taiwan, limits how much the new private guy taking his place can earn, and taxes all widgets so new private guy will make more environmentally friendly ones... voters swoon, pay more for widgets, lose job in widget factory, hate private guy, re-elect their pol... politician buries $ 5 billion aid to Taiwan in next appropriation bill...... kind of makes a case for term limits, doesn't it.

In its response to a consultation, the government said it will legislate to limit power plants to 450 grams of carbon dioxide for each kilowatt hour of electricity produced — effectively ruling out coal power without technology that captures emissions.

However, under Section One of the Charter, the state is authorized to legislate in order to limit this freedom when necessary to the development of democratic society.

Mandates for limiting fossil - fuel emissions or protecting forests are nevertheless difficult to legislate, partly because the threat is uncertain.

And to the point of the limited # of ethanol stations in the US — this is why companies like GM believe it's imperative that government legislate access to pumps that dispense ethanol.

It rejected the conclusion that the section prohibits any and all burdens on the passage of goods over provincial boundaries.9 Instead, it concluded that s. 121 is limited to «preventing provinces from passing laws aimed at impeding trade by setting up barriers at boundaries, while allowing them to legislate to achieve goals within their jurisdiction even where such laws may incidentally limit the passage of goods over provincial borders.

This type of segregation has no legislated time limits and is left to the discretion of the warden.

Yes John, but Gilbert Kennedy at UBC argued strongly for legislated arrangements and when he was Deputy AG of British Columbia took it on himself to negotiate a much larger range of reciprocity agreements than Ontario which had limited its agreements to maintenance and custody orders.

Therefore, provincial governments are constitutionally prohibited from legislating in a way that limits Aboriginal rights.

In general, governments are able to legislate within the bounds of their powers, usually as enumerated in a constitution, and sometimes limited by a bill of rights.

Lead counsel to Richardson International Limited in the negotiation of complex syndicated credit facilities with a syndicate of nine lenders, led by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, as sole lead arranger, bookrunner and administrative agent, and The Bank of Nova Scotia, The Toronto - Dominion Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Rabobank Nederland, Canadian Branch, as co-documentation agents, in connection with the opening of the market for wheat and barley sales in Canada following the removal of the Canadian Wheat Board's legislated monopoly

However, the power is limited in particular in that: - it does not extend to any act involving interference with the rights and liberties of the subject; - its exercise is reviewable on ordinary public law grounds; and - it does not operate in any field in which Parliament has chosen to legislate.

Congress has wide discretion to legislate in a manner that limits the power to make executive orders and pass regulations, and can mandate that the administration issue regulations in a certain area or refrain from issuing regulations in a certain area where the Executive branch is denied discretion or denied the right to set overarching policies as opposed to deciding things on a case by case basis at a lower level in the bureaucracy.

The government also proposed legislating to allow reduction in the total award — in exceptional cases, even to nil — to reflect prior record and bad conduct; to cap individual total awards at # 500,000; and to limit loss of earnings to one and a half times the gross average industrial earnings (see 156 NLJ 7224, p 778).

no constitutional requirement limited the power conferred on the federal government to legislate to remove Indigenous children from their families; and

Unless a state has legislated choice, through open access or through a limited pilot program that may lead to open access, users must continue to buy electricity from their current utility company.