Sentences with phrase «made by past governments»

Not exact matches

Public Eye has been supported for the past two years by a small group of readers who have made monthly $ 10 contributions to keep me filing freedom of information requests, poring over government reports and holding politicians of all stripes to account.

Thanks to an Access to Information request filed by Blacklock's Reporter, an online newsmagazine, we've learned that the Harper government has been drafting legislation since last November to strip away pension security for federally - regulated workers, despite Finance Minister Joe Oliver's statement this past April that no changes would be made without the consent of the retirees.

His focus now is on ensuring National provides a strong Opposition that holds the Government to account and ensures the gains made by hardworking New Zealanders over the past few years are not frittered away.

The RBA continued to rebuild its foreign currency reserves by making purchases over the past few months which more than covered the Government's requirements.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

Would our government embrace the tactics of regimes in the past that made hypocrites of citizens by insisting that they agree by force of law, if only outwardly, on matters of faith?

A reverse of privacy sensibilities: In most other industrialized countries, there is an acceptance of government intrusion of privacy, but other citizens snooping into your past is taboo, and made difficult by things such as «the right to be forgotten» in the EU.

NEW YORK — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman tonight offered a sharp critique of Albany's long history of ethical lapses and past claims of reform, and made comprehensive proposals to fundamentally change New York State government by striking at the root causes of corruption.

The workers say they are surprised that the immediate past government's appointees to the board are «claiming innocence of the outrageous payments allegedly made by the Dr Buckle management to itself».

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has expressed disappointment at today's announcement that Disincorporation Relief will not be extended beyond its current March 2018 expiry date.1 The relief was created to address the problems faced by some small businesses that have chosen to be a limited company in the past and want to return to a simpler legal form, be it a sole trader or a partnership or a limited liability partnership.2 While there has been a very low take up of Disincorporation Relief since it was introduced in 2013 (fewer than 50 claims had been made as of March 2016) the CIOT has suggested3 that the relief might be more popular if it was broader.4 John Cullinane, CIOT Tax Policy Director, said: «It's a shame the Government are letting this relief lapse.

According to him, several efforts made by the retirees to attract governments attention through these past years has proved abortive and called on the Ayade - led government to see to their plight by ordering their payment.

The court making this known on Monday has also stalled ruling on an application by federal government for a Secret Trial of the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA).

But the past year has seen a repeat of the drama and turmoil of the Major years: a rancorous party split over Europe within months of victory and a slim commons majority making the government vulnerable to defeats by opposition ambushes and even small backbench rebellions.

«They worked tirelessly over the past several months to make sure these costs are paid for by the federal government,» de Blasio said.

This past March, NBC News leaked details of a classified investigation by the Government Accountability Office that showed homemade bomb - making materials sailing through security at all 21 airports tested.

The mistake made over the past few hundred years (although the process began a thousands of years ago) is that through misguidance and bad advice by governments and the food industry our bodies have been forced to be sugar adapted.

In the recent past the Somali government with support from the African Union and the United Nations has made positive strides towards resolving its two decades protracted conflict by containing the high level of violence and its complex humanitarian crisis.

Learn from past mistakes The new Academies Bill and the proposal for free schools open the door for a repeat of the mistakes made by previous governments.

In 2008 Serra was made a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France, and in 2015 he became a Chevalier de l'Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur for an «exceptional contribution to art, past, present, and future.»

In Australia in 2017 our Liberal coalition government can not see past the profits that they believe can be made by digging up and burning or exporting millions of tonnes of this killer commodity.

In Australia our governments, federal and some state governments, can not see past the profits that they believe can be made by digging up and exporting millions of tonnes of this killer commodity.

«In spite of calls for urgent reform and broad recognition that the current rules penalised solar power and rewarded network gold - plating, governments have not even made glacial progress in the past five years, with the unpopular result of high electricity prices driven by the cost of network infrastructure to service people's desire for air conditioning.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

Her goal is to make suburban sprawl a thing of the past by equipping local governments with the tools to build neighborhoods centered on public transit and walking.

In an effort to make their voices heard by the government, more than 200 local cyclists took their bicycles to the streets of Ottawa this past Sunday.

A new program intended to help those with criminal records gain employment appears contradictory to the federal government's desire to make it tougher for offenders to put their past behind them and could leave them vulnerable to discrimination by employers.

This past year, Galati made huge waves by challenging the government on its appointment of Justice Marc Nadon to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The government did not changed it's stand on cryptocurrencies and similar statements were made by the RBI and government in past 3 Years.

We have seen over the past year, for example, efforts of the Northern Territory government to dismantle bilingual education by making it mandatory for schools to teach the first four hours of each school day in English.

It is in this two - part approach that the heart of the controversy over the making of official apologies lies, for it is claimed that a critical feature of any meaningful «addressing of the consequences» by governments has to be an acknowledgement and expression of regret on the part of those governments for what occurred in the past.

The forum took aim at the Federal Government over the NPARH impasse, accusing it of «appear (ing) to walk away from commitments made by successive Commonwealth governments over the past 40 years.»

Similar commitments have been made in the past, as demonstrated by the COAG National Commitment of 1992, and service delivery framework agreements on health, housing and infrastructure concluded variously between ATSIC, state, territory and federal governments.

In trying to provide a snapshot of the status of Indigenous policy making and achievements by governments over the past year, it is difficult to see any consistent forward trend.

The transformation toward value - based care in the U.S. healthcare system is being promoted by changes in government policy and is making these partnerships increasingly common and breaking down the silos between care and housing that have existed in the past.

Palace officials blame the backlog of repairs on a «real terms» squeeze of up to 60 % in funding by government over the past 20 years, forcing them to «make do and mend».