Sentences with phrase «municipal politicians»

One of the most radical stretches occurred a couple of years ago when a budget bill extended the term of office of municipal politicians from three to four years.

«I have difficulty seeing how [Routhier] can negotiate a file with his litigator as mayor while pleading against his own administration,» Rino Soucy, a partner with Montreal's Dufresne Hébert Comeau and co-author of a book on ethical and professional conduct for municipal politicians and employees, told La Presse (although he did not return calls from Canadian Lawyer).

Technology advocates might suggest that the country's firms would benefit from better access to growth capital, while municipal politicians might say that it's all about an endemic and enduring lack of investment in key public infrastructure projects.

Indigenous leaders and local Vancouver area municipal politicians have also warned of increasing civil unrest as people from across Canada mount anti-pipeline protests.

This particular Trump tower, complete with a signature Ivanka Trump spa (that's a thing), is owned by the Holborn Group, a major donor to both provincial and municipal politicians in British Columbia.

Last week, Montreal mayor Denis Coderre stood with scores of other municipal politicians demanding that the Energy East pipeline project be stopped in its tracks.

If Ms. Leibovici does run in Edmonton - West, she will add to a growing trend of municipal politicians running for federal office in the October 2015 federal election.

The blame for Penn Station, the tunnels, Portal Bridge, etc. go far beyond Amtrak to include federal, state, and municipal politicians from NY / NJ.

Look away from the bubble and see municipal politicians such as Sir Richard Leese, Labour leader of Manchester City Council, doing their best to use the heavily circumscribed powers of local government to gain real results for their populations.

Like the landowners signing leases for turbines, money is frequently the reason municipal politicians support wind power development and locating projects locally.

She is also recommending public consultations on whether municipal politicians» mandates should be limited to prevent influence and complacency leading to corruption.

According to Lemay, a Quebec City lawyer with Tremblay Bois Mignault Lemay, who specializes in municipal law and teaches an ethics course to newly elected municipal politicians, ethical and conflict questions and considerations under the dispositions of Quebec's eight - year - old Municipal Ethics and Good Conduct Act need to be evaluated in the context in which they arise.

Our poor municipal politicians will have to raise everyone's taxes to compensate — because when your neighbour's property loses value, someone else has to pick up the tax tab to compensate for that deficit.

Delving more deeply into the data, we can see the extent to which Torontonians were dissatisfied with the ethical behaviour of municipal politicians is a reflection of their dissatisfaction with Mayor Ford.

They knew biographies of the people who built the buildings, past mistakes of planning councils, new challenges for municipal politicians and the mundane daily concerns of all of the souls who lived within the boundaries of the area they worked.

An additional problem facing Whistler was of the municipal politicians» own making, Mathews says.

Turning to our own region, only 12 % of those living in the GTA are satisfied with the ethical behaviour of municipal politicians, as compared to 23 % in the rest of the province.

Canadians were most likely to be satisfied with the ethical behaviour of municipal politicians, although almost a third answered they were not satisfied with their ethical behaviour.

The author founded an anti-corruption campaign that resulted in putting «a couple of municipal politicians and a developer in jail,» and she was subsequently elected to council for the City of York.

Municipal politicians, competitors and ratepayers groups can all get in the way, and because many regulators in the U.S. are elected officials, local elections can complicate the timing of a deal.

The Court of Appeal has however left the door slightly ajar for those who support the notion that municipal politicians should be treated equally to their federal and provincial counterparts.

With that level of increased income it may be supposed that municipal politicians are racing to his side.

Municipal politicians, senior York Region staff and representatives from the public and private sectors also attended.