Sentences with phrase «of budget initiatives»

OTTAWA — Flush with revenues from an unprecedented economic boom, the Canadian government this week unveiled a series of budget initiatives that favor research.

OTTAWA — Flush with revenues from an unprecedented economic boom, the Canadian government last week unveiled a series of budget initiatives that would reinvigorate academe while making major thrusts in high - energy physics, genomics, and environmental technologies.

Two years ago, Miner publicly criticized Cuomo's leadership, calling one of his budget initiatives to help cities a «gimmick» in a New York Times opinion piece.

This implies that if the Budget is tabled after or shortly before March 1st, the Main Estimates will not include any of the budget initiatives and would not be based on the economic assumptions underlying the budget forecast.

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Doubling of the Treasury Board's budget for open data and open government initiatives, providing an additional $ 11.5 million over five years for these activities.

But for a new version of Trumpcare or any other initiative to succeed, the measure must at least arrest the relentlessly rising costs for hospital stays, MRIs, diagnostic tests and surgical procedures that threaten to swamp the federal budget, shrink take - home pay for families, or pummel both.

While his standing among troops has likely been burnished by some of his policies — like boosting spending and reducing executive - branch input in battlefield decision - making — he has faced public criticism on some initiatives, like raising the budget and expanding US involvement in Afghanistan.

She previously served as director of operations for the Verizon Foundation, where she was responsible for a $ 75 million budget, overseeing a workforce development portfolio of scholarships, diversity initiatives, and economic development projects.

Out of the defense department's $ 600 billion budget, a very well - hidden $ 22 million went to the Advanced Aviation Thread Identification Program, an initiative that investigates reports of «anomalous aerial vehicles,» more colloquially known as UFOs.

The Liberal government has signalled that next Tuesday's budget will include initiatives to promote gender equality, improve the economic success of women, ensure more gender equality in boardrooms and ease access to capital for female entrepreneurs.

Although the Conservatives later replaced the Canadian Building Incentive Program with a similar program, the new one is more limited in scope with a smaller budget — typical of the cuts Harper made to many climate related initiatives that had been proposed and voted through in Parliament under the previous Liberal government.

And why was this change allowed to proceed, when other promised tax initiatives have to await the achievement of a balanced budget?

Instead of savings of $ 8.6 billion in 2015 - 16, we believe that their initiatives would yield only $ 3.8 billion, insufficient to achieve a budget surplus.

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

Without sufficient information and clear intention of the proposed initiatives, Parliament and its Committees can not properly assess the budget.

In addition, the New Deomcratics do not include the various initiatives affecting Employment Insurance Benefits as a Use of Funds and the freezing of Employment Insurance premium rates at $ 1.88 per $ 100 of insurable earnings rather than letting them fall to $ 1.49, as specified in the April 2015 Budget, as a Source of Funds.

When the Main Estimates are tabled before a Budget, they do not include any of the policy initiatives and restraint measures proposed in that Budget.

Thank goodness because there was more than enough in his previous budgets, including the proliferation of tax expenditures (which are really spending programs but delivered through the tax system), various initiatives included in the Economic Action Plan, among others).

Proposing these initiatives in a budget tabled before the end of fiscal year 2014 - 15 would have required that the net savings be booked in 2014 - 15 rather than in 2015 - 16.

One would have to go through the individual budgets to derive estimates for the impact of the new policy initiatives — tax and spending changes.

As indicated earlier, PBO does not include the impact of the March 2011 Budget initiatives.

Finally, the PBO expresses concerns over the lack of detailed costing information for new policy initiatives and a plan to secure the spending restraint savings announced in the 2010 Budget.

Higher revenues and lower expenses resulting from the improvement in nominal GDP, coupled with the saving measures implemented in the Budget are just sufficient to offset the impact of the new policy initiatives.

The commitment in Budget 2011 to undertake a Strategic Operating Review to find $ 4 billion in annual savings followed the Budget 2010 initiatives which restrained growth in national defence spending, capped funding of the International Assistance Envelope, forced departments to absorb the increase in annual federal employees» wages for 2011 - 12, and froze their operating budgets for 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 at their 2010 - 11 levels.

These improvements were partially offset by provisions for anticipated Cabinet decisions ($ 0.9 billion) and the impact of new policy initiatives proposed in the March 2017 Budget ($ 0.3 billion).

Tuesday's announcement is the latest in a series of high - profile and big - ticket initiatives unveiled in the days leading up to the provincial budget on March 28.

Williams is responsible for facilitating the establishment of numerous statewide and community change initiatives the areas of budget and tax policy, after school programs, older youth transitioning from foster care, poverty alleviation, mental and behavioral health, and neighborhood revitalization.

The Government also sets out its policy priorities and new spending initiatives in the budget, many of which ultimately come into effect through the Estimates process.

As noted in other blogs, the Main Estimates do not include many of the new initiatives proposed in the Budget, given the difference in timing.

Prior to Budget 2012 initiatives, direct program expenses were forecast to grow at annual average rate of about 2.5 % between 2008 - 09 and 2016 - 17, an extremely ambitious target.

The Update also included a large number of spending initiatives (about $ 10 billion over six years), thereby ensuring that these initiatives would be included in Main Estimates for 2018 - 19 as part of efforts to increase transparency and accountability between the budget expenses and the Main Estimates expenditures.

Unfortunately, Tuesday's Update wasn't simply an Update; it was really a mini - budget including new tax and spending initiatives along with a tedious review of accomplishments since taking office.

In addition, most of the new spending initiatives announced in Budget 2012 will be included in this category of spending.

for the year as a whole Other transfers to business, students, aboriginals, farmers, etc. declined by $ 463 million -LRB--2.0 %), primarily due to the inclusion of disaster assistance liabilities during the first half of 2016 - 17 and the timing of recent budget initiatives.

Part of the planning process involves preliminary thinking on how to achieve initiatives and how much should be allocated to an expense or capital budget.

for the year as a whole Other transfers to business, students, aboriginals, farmers, etc. increased by $ 620 million (3.8 %), primarily due to the timing of recent budget initiatives affecting most components.

The second type is the authority to get you the attention of someone who can launch an initiative or allocate budget.

This improvement of $ 2.1 billion was primarily due to somewhat better - than - expected economic conditions and an increase in the lapse ($ 3.2 billion) partially offset by provisions for anticipated Cabinet decisions ($ 0.9 billion) and the impact of new policy initiatives proposed in the March 2017 Budget ($ 0.3 billion).

The election platform proposed a number of initiatives to improve the credibility, transparency and integrity of the budget process.

Expenses for all other departments and agencies advanced $ 1.6 billion (6.1 %), also reflecting, in part, the impact of new initiatives proposed in Budget 2016 and increased liabilities for employee pension and other future benefits.

For those who do not know, the European Commission is the executive body of the EU, in charge with legislative initiative, budget management and control over other EU institutions.

The administration's one education - related poverty - fighting program, Duncan's Promise Neighborhoods initiative, is a rounding error in the Department of Education's budget.

None of these outreach initiatives and very few of these programs exist in the Chicago Park District, despite its $ 128 million annual budget for parks and recreation programs, compared with Detroit «s $ 59.8 million, Evanston «s $ 3.2 million, and Atlanta «s $ 25 million.

The economic benefits of energy efficiency are clear, yet currently not # 1 of the annual UK public infrastructure budget has been spent on initiatives to make homes warmer - a move which would create decent jobs and put our economy on a more stable footing.

It is also continuing PR initiatives it began even before the state Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo came to an agreement as part of the recently approved budget to legalize ride hailing outside NYC.

NATO's current «Smart Defence» initiative, aiming to boost cooperation among Alliance members, is a direct result of broad trends in a new global economy of constrained resources, which is prompting governments to trim defence budgets and force structures.

Mr. Speaker, in our maiden Budget Statement and Economic Policy, we outlined a number of short to medium term policy initiatives, to set the stage for our agenda for inclusive growth and job creation.

STATUS OF THE 2017 BUDGET POLICY INITIATIVES 3.

A number of state Senate Republicans weren't happy with a breakaway group of Democrats aligned with them after they voted en masse against a GOP budget proposal last week that included many initiatives the independent Dems had sought.

Mr. Speaker, the 2018 - 2021 Budget is informed by the President's Coordinated Programme for Economic and Social Development Policies which aims at creating a conducive environment for the private sector to thrive, propel growth and create employment opportunies, especially for the youth.In this regard, Government's policy objectives for the medium term will aim at: • Stabilizing the economy and setting it on a path of sustained, diversified and resilient growth; • Optimizing the key sources of growth in the economy on sustainable basis; • Enhancing a competitive and enabling business environment for private sector - led growth; • Formalizing the informal sector; • Building a strong and resilient economy able to withstand internal and external shocks; • Promoting agro-industrial enterprises as the basis for the «One District, One Factory» initiative; and • Creating entrepreneurial and employment opportunities, especially for the youth.