Sentences with phrase «now business minister»

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Now, thanks to tough new mortgage lending and insurance rules announced by federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau in October, some analysts predict that so - called «shadow banking» firms, which operate largely outside the purview of regulators, will see a surge of fresh business from frustrated homebuyers who can't get conventional loans.

«I congratulate all the companies selected to join the new accelerator facility which is now open for business,» Matt Hancock, minister of state for digital and culture, said in a statement.

There's a school of thought around Parliament Hill that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau have stumbled unwittingly into the battle now raging over their proposal to seriously tighten up the rules on small - business taxation.

All reforms are now on the table and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and Business Secretary Vince Cable have weighed in.

Paul Boothe, a former senior public servant who now is a professor at the University of Western Ontario's Ivey Business School, chastised «amateur» deputy ministers for making a fuss over a contingency that amounts to a sliver of the total budget.

Now, so too has the academic who advised our federal minister of finance that it would be a smart idea to change the 40 - year - old rules that govern Canada's small businesses, with a mere 75 - day «consultation» process, in the dog days of summer.

In the wake of his rock star reception at Madison Square Garden last Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emphatically announced to our nation's top corporate and political leaders that India is now open for business.

Finance Minister Joe Oliver announced that the federal corporate tax rate for corporations earning less than $ 500,000 will be reduced to 9 per cent by 2019 from 11 per cent now (compared to 15 per cent for business income above $ 500,000).

Yesterday in a letter to Minister Morneau, John Manley, President and CEO of the Business Council, urged the government to take decisive action now to bolster private - sector confidence in the Canadian economy, discourage capital flight and increase incentives for new business invBusiness Council, urged the government to take decisive action now to bolster private - sector confidence in the Canadian economy, discourage capital flight and increase incentives for new business invbusiness investment.

OTTAWA, February 15, 2018 — The federal government must take decisive action now to shore up Canada's business tax competitiveness in the wake of sweeping tax reforms in the United States, the Business Council of Canada says in a letter to The Honourable Bill Morneau, Minister of business tax competitiveness in the wake of sweeping tax reforms in the United States, the Business Council of Canada says in a letter to The Honourable Bill Morneau, Minister of Business Council of Canada says in a letter to The Honourable Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance.

Small Business Minister, Bruce Billson's, press conference releasing the Harper Report is now expected at 3:15 pm

With Labour leader Ed Miliband now issuing no - holds - barred attacks on Mr Murdoch and the prime minister firing a warning shot across the bows this morning by telling reporters he would have accepted Rebekah Brokes» resignation, the last thing the media mogul needed was a negative impact on his business efforts, especially after he took the drastic step of closing the News of ten World yesterday.

James Harding's Alpha Dogs: How Spin Became a Global Business (Atlantic Books, # 22.00) is about the highly successful Sawyer Miller Group of spin doctors who worked for politicians and corporate leaders, and included at one time Mark Malloch Brown, now a foreign office minister.

Now that working days are shorter - business is finished by 7.30 pm most days and Prime Minister's questions is at noon rather than the former 3 pm slot - the temptation to wile away hours in the members» bars is far weaker.

It also reveals that the price for attending the business day and dinner has now surged to # 2750 per person for the chance to be in the presence of May and her new government ministers during the day.

Now circumstances have changed, with business secretary Vince Cable and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg insisting they must abandon their pre-election pledge and vote through a near - tripling of the tuition fee cap.

In comments reported by the Financial Times the former prime minister told a business conference in Poland there would now be fresh pressure for a «softer Brexit» and that Parliament «deserves a say» on the matter.

The Hemel Hempstead MP Mike Penning has been appointed a Home Office minister while the Grantham & Stamford MP Nick Boles is now the joint Minister of State at the Business and Education depaminister while the Grantham & Stamford MP Nick Boles is now the joint Minister of State at the Business and Education depaMinister of State at the Business and Education departments.

E-readers, tablets and online distributors are definitely now an established force, and to forecast their demise would be to make the same mistake the former Labor minister for small business did: base an assumption on a short - term trend.

The former stockbroker and ABC chair now oversees the Prime Minister's Business Advisory Council.

Brexit, a change of Prime Minister and ongoing considerations of Scottish independence mean that there is great uncertainty for businesses now and in the foreseeable future.