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Gary Mauris, president of Dominion Lending Centres, had his say about concerns within the Canadian mortgage brokering industry to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty during the Regina Pre-Budget Consultation recently.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has announced changes to Canada's anti-money laundering legislation, the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PC [ML] TFA).

The website collected more than 12,000 letters supporting CREA's position, and earned CREA a meeting with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to discuss the issue.

July, 2008: After briefly allowing the CMHC to insure high - ratio mortgages with a 40 - year amortization period, then Conservative finance minister Jim Flaherty moved to tighten those rules by reducing the maximum length of an insured high - ratio mortgage to 35 years.

With three new mortgage rules coming into force on April 19, as announced on February 16 by federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, it's important to know how this will affect your clients in their bids to obtain mortgages moving forward.

We had about 300 people in the room, and the prime minister and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty stood in the room for photos with all these groups from all the regions of the country.

Last week federal finance minister Jim Flaherty surprised real estate market stakeholders by announcing a fourth round of changes to the rules that are used to qualify borrowers who have less than 20 per cent equity in their property (commonly referred to as high - ratio borrowers).

Now that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty acted dramatically by putting in the 25 year mortgage rules, it has been driving down prices due to falling sales.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty recently outlined a series of changes to the rules that govern the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the crown corporation that insures mortgages (CMHC).

Editor's note: This article was updated at 8:50 p.m. ET on April 8 with additional background and reaction from Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, Opposition Leader Jason Kenney, federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr, and B.C. Premier John Horgan.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr's announced changes included a commitment to science - based evidence, input and knowledge from Indigenous groups, new NEB members, consideration of public views, and a much - needed review of climate change effects.

This option would have required Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr to appoint a Special Ministerial Representative (SMR) to engage directly with affected First Nations to determine how to accommodate their concerns.

This year, the party ran into copyright troubles and embarrassment when Industry Minister Jim Prentice — who was overseeing a controversial plan to tighten Canadian copyright law — landed in hot water by using a video cut to a copyrighted song without seeking the permission of an unamused copyright owner.

Minister Jim Prentice is about to table the government's new copyright law, Bill 61.

In a statement to Bloomberg Business a spokesperson for Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said «The government has committed to transition plans for important natural resource projects while we undertake longer term modernization on the crucial regulatory agencies.»

But other documents, released to National Observer in January, revealed that public servants had informed federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr that First Nations felt the consultations were «parternalistic,» «inadequate,» and «unrealistic.»

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr declined an interview request about the newly - released email through a spokesman.

[Tax Fairness Plan] Finance Minister Jim Flaherty looks out for Canadian taxpayers.

Through a campaign led by former Prime Minister Jim Callaghan, however, a further amendment was proposed, introducing s 301, allowing the hospital to benefit from royalties through public performances, commercial publications or communications to the public of Peter Pan and any adaptation whatsoever.

Then - finance minister Jim Flaherty said in 2014 that expanding the CPP would be a payroll tax on businesses.

Former Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, 64, who steered Canada through the global financial crisis and then nearly eliminated the huge budget deficits he had run up in the process, died today just weeks after resigning.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he could have cut spending more drastically but opted for «moderate choices» so that he could stimulate growth and jobs.

Federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said Thursday that Ottawa is determined to see the Trans Mountain pipeline expanded, despite an interprovincial dispute on whether the project should go ahead.

Industry Minister Jim Prentice tabled amendments to the Copyright Law in the House of Commons Thursday.

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and his counterparts from Ontario, home to the country's predominant capital market, and British Columbia unveiled details of their plan on Thursday.

Former Conservative Minister Jim Prentice admits that pipelines are needed for oil sands growth:

As former Canadian environment minister Jim Prentice told an Enbridge shareholder meeting in May 2011: «The reality on the ground is that the constitutional and legal position of the First Nations is very strong.»

Environment Minister Jim Prentice has been consulting with provinces on the pending federal regulations, and has encountered resistance from outside Alberta that its industry would either be bound by different rules than others, or would be allowed to increase emissions to the detriment of other sectors.

Earlier this month, former senior cabinet minister Jim Prentice told the Financial Post that he thought «environmental organizations based outside the country [should] be required to reveal who gives them funding when they participate in Canada's regulatory process to influence Canada's internal decisions.»

A scientific panel struck by former federal environment minister Jim Prentice found «significant» weaknesses in monitoring pollution from the oilsands that must be corrected.

The BBC reported Schools Minister Jim Knight as saying, «Climate change is one of the most important challenges facing our planet today -LSB-...] This pack will help to give young people information and inspiration to understand and debate the issues around climate change, and how they as individuals and members of a community should respond to it.»

«The risks associated with the oil sands, the environmental risks, are significantly different than — and probably less significant than — the kind of risks associated with offshore drilling,» said Canada's Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice.

Environment Minister Jim Prentice has said that any new coal plants will include CCS technology and old conventional coal plants will be phased out.

The country's Canwest News Service reports this morning that a top - ranking official with Environment Canada produced a memo for Environment Minister Jim Prentice — just before his participation in Copenhagen — that defended the integrity of the UN IPCC science:

Canada's Environment Minister Jim Prentice went on to dismiss the feature as «just one article.»

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has managed to persuade his provincial counterparts to throw their support behind the creation of Pooled Registered Pension Plans, or PRPPs.

Cohorted by our late finance minister Jim Flaherty.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivered these and other comments outside of a volunteer firefighter station in Ottawa last Thursday.

Today, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty made an announcement that they will once again be changing the mortgage rules for high - ratio or unconventional mortgages in Canada.

Jon Chevreau posted Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's response which is along the lines you've pointed out.

TORONTO — Longtime Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has resigned from his cabinet position.

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty looks to have shelved his plans for an expanded Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and is now looking to the provinces to help him establish a new private sector pension plan.

However, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has moved to restrain borrowing, especially in the housing sector, with measures that made mortgages more costly for high - leverage borrowers.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Jim Flaherty expressed doubt Wednesday that expanding income - splitting for tax purposes is the best way to spend a surplus he expects to deliver ahead of the next election.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has promised to balance the books and post a surplus in 2015, just before Canadians go to the polls.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's budget will include a promise of legislation to stop «country pricing» — when multinational brands set different prices in Canada and the United States, a government official told The Canadian Press.

CMHC, it seems, doesn't see eye - to - eye with either Finance Minister Jim Flaherty or Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, both of whom have voiced concerns that Canadians have taken on too much debt.

Former federal finance minister Jim Flaherty said income splitting for families would be of no benefit to most Canadians.

OTTAWA — A new deal with the United States over an American law aimed at rooting out tax cheats north of the border will ensure that Canadian financial institutions won't be required to report directly to American tax authorities, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced Wednesday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrives with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty as he enters the House of Commons to table the budget on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014.