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D66 is a progressive opposition party, which was an early proponent of liberal policies in the Netherlands, including gay marriage, euthanasia and drug tolerance.

Presuming Weiner goes on to win this thing, thumbs down from me until I see liberal policies in action.

Perhaps the Social Liberal Forum should see this as an opportunity to defeat the leadership and ensure we have Social Liberal Policies in the run up to the next general election.

Klein's comments were a rebuke of the mainline Senate Democrats» earlier in the day referring to the eight - member IDC as «the rogue Democrats» while also challenging them to vote for «resistance» amendments — measures designed to bolster liberal policies in the wake of Donald Trump's presidential election.

This is particularly the case in the Netherlands, as it has one of the most liberal policies in the world: legalized euthanasia, gay marriage, soft - drugs (sort - of anyway), abortion, prostitution, etc..

Here's the policy resolution that made pot legalization Liberal policy in 2013.

Not exact matches

The Conservatives are in a full identity crisis now, and will have to figure out if they want to play tough with the U.S. and go back to the Sir John A. MacDonald days of a National Policy — essentially copying Trump's Buy American stance with a Buy Canadian — or if they want to follow the pro-free trade Mulroney - Harper path, which is more likely but offers less differentiation from the Liberals.

And it's a shift in the Liberals» approach to economic policy, which had become encumbered over the past decade by vacuous buzzwords like «champion sectors» and «innovation gateways» (Both found on a single - page in the 2011 election platform).

Carr says the Liberals intend to have more «meaningful conversations with indigenous communities,» whose principles of land and water stewardship will be embedded in new policies and processes.

In 1965, CEOs earned about 20 times what a typical worker brought home, according to research by theEconomic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank.

Since November, just before elections in December that bought the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to power, Abe has pushed for bold measures and an aggressive monetary policy to revive the Japanese economy, which is in recession and plagued by years of deflation.

His interest in Canadian policy debates was rekindled a few years ago, he says, around the time he was invited to participate in a 2010 «thinkers» conference put on by then - Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in Montréal.

The company, which already had one of the most liberal paternity leave policies among U.S. companies with 17 paid weeks for both mothers and fathers, expanded its policy to employees outside the U.S. and became gender neutral, allowing same - sex couples to participate in the program.

But the city still has much to offer beyond February 9th: jazz in the streets, gumbo and jambalaya, and, copious amounts of alcohol (and a liberal open container policy), if you feel so inclined.

Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

«The idea that you would deny protection for 50,000 people because there are a few bad apples who wouldn't be eligible for Temporary Protected Status in the first place, makes little to no sense,» Tom Jawetz, the vice president of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization told NBC News.

In an op - ed for The New York Times, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, and David Cole, a professor of law and public policy at Georgetown University, write that many liberals and conservatives alike acknowledge the US criminal justice system needs reform.

The last time a Liberal government entered an election in the middle of a monetary policy tightening cycle was in 2006; that year, the Conservatives defeated them.

A report by the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank in Washington, found that if Trump is successful in lowering the top marginal tax rate to 33 %, Fortune 500 CEOs would stand to save $ 196 million on income taxes they would otherwise owe if they withdrew from their nearly $ 3 billion in special tax - deferred accounts.

Third, he criticizes the Liberals for pursuing their progressive trade policies in these talks: «Did anyone really think that the Liberals could somehow force the Trump administration into enacting their agenda — union power, climate change, aboriginal claims, gender issues?

The Liberals even acknowledged in the brochure that an open - government policy could prove annoying at times.

Regardless of the response, we view this kind of public CEO activism as a welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds of millions of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and think tanks to promote liberal and conservative causes.

Liberal and Conservative governments in the 1980s and 1990s, wanted their public servants to provide their best advice, regardless of whether that disagreed with the government; they wanted policy options costed; and, they were even willing to defend research in public.

So it was somewhat surprising to see him offer, unsolicited, an in - depth policy interview to a small labor - liberal publication in DC (the post is currently crashing the magazine's servers; a cached version is available here).

More recently, Harper has tried to stake out the middle ground in the health care debate, advancing a policy that not only mimics the Liberals» stance, but goes beyond the governing party's plans in terms of expanding the publicly funded system.

In the lead up to the provincial election next May, the Liberal government has begun laying the groundwork for an election platform, announcing new policies in the hopes of wooing voterIn the lead up to the provincial election next May, the Liberal government has begun laying the groundwork for an election platform, announcing new policies in the hopes of wooing voterin the hopes of wooing voters.

Policies: Wang is largely considered a more liberal leader in the party's ruling elite.

Lastly, the Liberals have recently announced major policy proposals in support of Aboriginals, the most important being a commitment to eliminate significant» gaps» between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.

Although the Fraser Report is right to criticize the overall budget policy of the Mulroney government, it is wrong to ignore the fact that actions taken by the Mulroney government did help the Liberal government in 1990s.

The Liberal government took full advantage of these policy changes in eliminating the deficit.

Trudeau's minority lasted as long as it did thanks to support from the New Democratic Party (in return for the implementation of some NDP policies), while Harper's was aided by disarray in the opposition Liberal Party — Paul Martin's resignation, a lengthy and divisive leadership convention, and the unwillingness of the new leader, Stephane Dion, to defeat Harper until the Grits had begun to reduce their party and personal debts, and developed new policies (notably the Green Shift).

Promises to solve this foreign ownership data vacuum are welcomed by industry and policy stakeholders and if championed by the new Liberal government, will provide an essential step in the creation of appropriate policy responses.

At one time governments, both Liberal and Conservative, asked their public servants to provide their best advice, regardless of disagreement, wanted policy options costed, and were even willing to publish reports and analysis and defend them in public.

North Star Leasing prides itself in quick credit approvals, liberal credit policies, and same - day payment to vendors upon receipt of invoices.

Over the last little while, some of my compadres here at Relentlessly Progressive Economics have intuited and sometimes even insisted that while Stà © phane Dion's socially liberal bona fides are not in question, his economic policy proposals place him well to the right of centre.

Economist Kevin Milligan examines what we know so far about the policies the opposition parties plan to fight the Liberals with in the next election

In the budgets presented by the previous Liberal government, it was clearly stated that the Contingency Reserve was not to be used to finance new policy initiatives.

«It's just an electoral tool,» said the Opposition leader, who also accused the PQ of re-announcing policies already implemented in recent years by previous Liberal governments.

I believe pet in cabin policies should be more liberal than they are currently, and that cost and restrictiveness have led to the explosion of using the claim of emotional support as a justification to avoid those rules.

Experts anticipate a mix of supply and demand levers in the B.C. NDP's new housing policy, including a speculation tax and a widening of Vancouver's foreign buyer tax, introduced by the previous Liberal government in 2016, to include more cities.

Opinion: If the Liberals really wanted to help the economy, they'd design a policy with ambitious entrepreneurs in mind — not an army of small - business owners content to stay that way

Experts anticipate a mix of supply and demand levers in the NDP's new housing policy, including a speculation tax and a widening of Vancouver's foreign buyer tax, introduced by the previous Liberal government in 2016, to include more cities.

Zuckerberg denied Facebook's policies are a product of its liberal cocoon in Silicon Valley but conceded that Facebook doesn't always make the right call when removing conservative content.

At the same time the Liberal Party, and Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, have made environmentalism a major component of their election platform through a policy initiative known as the Green Shift — an initiative that was the source of considerable discussion and debate in the lead - up to the election.

Reductions were enacted by NDP governments in British Columbia and Saskatchewan; by Conservative regimes in Alberta and Ontario, and also the post-2003 Liberal government in Ontario, which continued its predecessor's policy on this score.

The policies adopted by the Liberals in 1919 show that the Liberals were attempting to respond.

New Democrats have been calling for the Liberals to follow the lead of Ontario and bring in a province - wide anti-bullying policy which specifically addresses homophobia and transphobia.

«We should be seeing some serious upticks in orders if the tax cut is going to lead to the promised jump in investment,» Dean Baker, an economist from the liberal - leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research, said in an email.

«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.