Sentences with phrase «minister makes a policy change»

There are also cases where a prime minister makes a policy change and feels that it needs ratification from the voters, as with the election called in 1923 after Baldwin adopted tariff reform.

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But shadow housing minister Alison Seabeck said the government's policy changes would make it harder, not easier, for people to buy a house.

The plan, released yesterday after 14 months of deliberation, delivers on an election promise made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party to revisit controversial changes made to Canada's environmental policies by the previous Conservative Party government, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

Lucy Powell, the Labour MP and former shadow education secretary, said: «The new prime minister or the new education secretary should urgently make a statement to Parliament about such a huge change in education policy.

While a Minister of the Environment making claims to pursue tougher climate policy is nothing new, I saw two important changes come out in Minister Kent's speech, and I am seeing actions from Environment Canada which I have not seen since the early days of the Harper government and the Turning the Corner plan.

Thailand's Prime Minister repeated claims made in the past pledging to end the domestic ivory trade, yet there is no timeline for this ban and the world's elephants become increasingly endangered while policy change languishes.

Under Harper, meanwhile, Canada's climate policy has gone absolutely nowhere, and the prime minister has also managed to make climate change taboo, ushering in an age of media censorship and «muzzling» climate scientists who attempt to communicate their findings with the public.

In announcing these changes, the Minister said the aim of the establishment of ATSIS is to separate the roles of decision - making about the development of policy (to remain with ATSIC) from that of its implementation (to be undertaken by the new agency).