Sentences with phrase «national wedge issue»

«Given the strong support of younger Americans for same - sex marriage, it is unlikely this issue will reappear as a major national wedge issue.»

Many analysts expect climate change to elevate regional tensions over partisan matters — and unleash a new wave of national wedge issues in the process.

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Coming of Age in the Asian Century: The Need for a National Conversation By Sarah Eaton, Post ‐ Graduate Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Political pundits tell us this federal election will be fought not over big ideas but along a narrow set of economic wedge issues.

*... To refresh the raison d'être of the EPA & UN...... To move environmentalism from the fringes to the center of social concern...... To justify increased media coverage of environmental issues...... To give enviro - groups a powerful fund - raising and consciousness - raising tool...... and allow them access to the levers of national and international power...... To give activist & green parties a vote - getting wedge issue...... and a case - study justification for their habitual «hammer» (increased regulation and taxation)...... To provide at - a-loss «engagé / enragé» types with a new stick with which to bash the beastly bourgeoise...... To transfer wealth from the West to the South...... To fund alternative energy developers and researchers...

Political analyst Jean Lapierre predicts that the PQ may call an election before the end of the year, using their proposed charter as a wedge issue to win a majority, but lacking a majority, the PQ won't reintroduce the issue into the national assembly.