Sentences with phrase «liberal policies on»

Taking inspiration from an EU edict proposing open access to publicly funded research, The Utopia of Access analyzed the implications of liberal policies on artistic practice.

We believe the BC Liberal policies on GHG emissions are in line with the stated positions of the GVBOT, especially their recommitment to revenue neutrality.

Cajetan had roughed out a proposal even more liberal than before, agreeing to married clergy, communion under both kinds, no doctrinal recantation and a liberal policy on the sacraments which were no longer to be operated under the same kind of canonical system.

Not exact matches

Carr says the Liberals are returning to «co-operative federalism» and a hands - on approach: «It's not possible to consider major national projects and a nation building policy if you don't have all levels of governments talking to each other.»

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).

Liberal policies will require you to be aggressive when customers do not pay on time.

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.

This weekend when Liberals are voting on policy resolutions, delegates should ask themselves a series of questions:

Without a doubt, government policies (Conservative, Liberal, B.C. Liberal, and B.C. NDP) have impacted the timelines, risks and potential future returns from LNG facilities on the B.C. coast.

Even if governmental regulations vary on how much vacation an employee must be guaranteed, it could be a smart business decision to adopt the more liberal policy for your company -; and it will certainly keep your workers happy.

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.

• What the Liberals need now is nerve, a more detailed defence of their policy and faith that average Canadians will stand with them, despite the noise coming from a well - heeled minority, and their well - paid lobbyists, who are loudly protesting this unexpected attack on their long - standing privileges.

Neither of these feature on the Liberal Party policy wish list.

The liberal media monitoring group Media Matters said Mr. Lehrer had «lost the debate» by missing «repeated opportunities to press Mitt Romney into offering specifics on his policy proposals.»

Disclosure: I have occasionally advised the federal Liberals on economic policy matters.

The Public Policy Forum's report on the future of journalism and democracy was designed to convince the Liberal government to enact a number of changes to help Canada's media industry, including amending the Income Tax Act and the Copyright Act to provide new streams of revenue for the media.

Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada have been preparing the ground for a policy agenda focused on the problems of the middle class.

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 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.

Anyway, it'll be on policy choices that the Trudeau Government stands or falls with Canadian voters, regardless of the effort of the Conservatives to make couture an issue, and while there's plenty to criticize in the Liberal policy book, taken as a package Canadians don't yet seem that dissatisfied with what they're getting.

Find an educational feature that provides an overview of the structure and policies of a possible coalition government, focusing on the two accords signed on December 1, 2008 by the Liberal Party of Canada, the New Democratic Party of Canada, and the Bloc Québécois.

According to a registration with the office of Ontario's Integrity Commissioner, a lobbyist on behalf of Equifax Canada aims to engage «stakeholders» on a piece of credit - reporting - related legislation proposed by Ontario's Liberal government, in addition to any other relevant policies.

The Tories have attacked the Liberals» carbon tax policy and have argued it will raise prices on almost everything — from gasoline and groceries — without actually cutting emissions.

Though it never drew a direct link, the Liberal government's review of its arts funding policies - launched last January - came on the heels of allegations of sexual misconduct that were levelled against Albert Schultz, the founding artistic director of Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre.

The recent federal election featured something of a debate on fiscal policy, with the Liberals promising to run modest deficits for three years in order to stimulate a sagging economy and finance needed long - term investments in infrastructure and social programs.

The Liberal government took several important steps during its first year in office, but its bold feminist rhetoric has not yet translated into policy and spending decisions that push the needle forward on gender equality.

The Liberal leader insisted Tuesday that he's offered «an awful lot of concrete policies» on a number of fronts — including democratic reform, foreign investment, oil and gas pipelines and legalization of marijuana — but reiterated that precise details must await the election platform.

Former Conservative Garth Turnerâ $ ™ s decision to join the Liberal caucus is one of several recent news items that highlight the extensive similarity between these two parties on economic policy.

Now any attempt to abstract a person is going to be of limited utility, but I let's try this point of view: maybe Obama is, on domestic policy, a mostly unreconstructed 1970s upper middle - class left - liberal who.

The Tet Offensive of January 1968 was the point at which the liberal canonical account of America's Vietnam, which was already shaping American journalism, began to have a marked impact on policy.

Rebecca Solnit is frustrated that so many liberals are letting occasional policy disagreements blind them to the fact that Obama is the only candidate who's even trying to be on their side, which to her mind should earn him at least a little bit of loyalty and ideological slack - cutting.

Sectarian requirements would drive away all non-Methodists on the faculty and, even more critical, alienate major benefactors, for they endorsed a «liberal Christian policy.»

In their views on public economic policy, mainline Protestant clergy tend to be more liberal than business executives.

In tape - recorded conversations, Miller engages liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, big spenders and tax - cutters, politicians, professors and policy specialists — separately and together — in reflection on his proposals, eliciting more or less agreement with this or that plan.

Speakers at the rally on Zagreb's Bana Jelacica square blasted the EU for allegedly wanting to «conquer» Croatia with its liberal policies.

Meticulously considering the policy implications of this tension, Reinders concludes that it is neither within the liberal purview nor within the limits of the practical to address it through legal restrictions on procreative technology and abortion.

A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.

A minority among the evangelicals — represented by such journals as Sojourners and the Other Side — is so radical in its criticism of the American economy and of our foreign policies that it gives up on liberal politics; nonetheless, its witness is an important corrective to what many of us regard as the Moral Majority's distortions of Christian faith.

The WA Liberal Dennis Jensen said Labor's change in stance on foreign investment was more to do with Rudd's preference deal with Katter in Queensland than policy.

No party has yet succeeded in filling the void in Britain's political economy that opened up in 2008 between the emphasis on central planning and nationalisation, a policy applied between 1945 and 1979, and the market liberal laissez - faire approach pursued in Britain ever since.

Overall, judging by the rapturous applause he received, Miliband was in sublime form: dynamic, incisive, intelligent (a man who can quote the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia and apply it to the current foreign policy debate between those who oppose liberal interventionism based on the principle of nation state sovereignty and those who support it based on the natural rights of individuals superseding that sovereignty certainly deserves this accolade) and even at times funny.

In political terms, the volte face on tuition fees marks a further - and welcome - erosion in the credibility of the Liberal Democrats» own byzantine policy - making process.

The Liberal Democrats are gearing up to launch an anti-libel agenda at the next general election, with an amendment to a policy motion on civil liberties being proposed to conference today by Richard Dawkins.

While the document does not use the word «decriminalisation», senior Liberal Democrat sources told Politics.co.uk the pre-manifesto was adopting «the essence» of a policy document proposal which called on the UK to follow the approach used in Portugal.

The Liberal Democrats and the home affairs committee have called for a royal commission on drug policy and for more thorough assessments of experiments with legalisation overseas, including in various US states.

A policy modelled on the Portuguese example was adopted by the Liberal Democrats in their policy paper following debates with party members.

Many want movement on the married couples» tax breaks, although the introduction of the policy would further distance the Tories from their Liberal Democrat colleagues.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg faced stiff opposition on the weekend after he refused to categorically stand behind abolishing tuition fees in the future - previously a key Lib Dem education policy.

An inkling of the movement for constitutional reform at the practical level of electoral politics may be traced to the Joint Commission on the Constitution set up in 1981 by the Alliance, with the purpose to «examine the policies for reform of the British constitution, in particular of the electoral system... that our parties should present together at the next election for implementation» (Joint Liberal / SDP Alliance Commission on Constitutional Reform 1983: 1).

For instance, they struck a bargain with the Liberal Party (the so - called «Lib - Lab Pact») in a desperate bid to cling to power in 1977, by the terms of which Labour agreed to take on board certain policy proposals favoured by the Liberals, including electoral reform.