Sentences with phrase «omnibus budget bill»

Massive shifts in Canadian environmental law occurred over the past four years, most notably through two omnibus budget bills in 2012 that repealed or amended most of Canada's most significant environmental laws.

After the government introduced implementing amendments to the Patent Act in omnibus budget Bill C - 43, the statutory amendments passed into law a mere 54 days later in December 2014.

This effort resulted in two subsequent omnibus budget bills passed in 2012, which further undermined the public's confidence in the NEB and its pipeline review process.

The wait could be more than six months given the June omnibus budget bill is typically followed by a second bill in the fall.

In their scathing critique, former bureaucrats Scott Clark and Peter DeVries lambasted the Harper government for keeping internal budget records secret, picking a fight with the PBO, and introducing omnibus budget bills that are «a disgrace and an insult to Parliament and to Canadians.»

Given this, it is nothing less than our obligation, as fully participating members of civil society, to continue alerting Canadians to these cuts and their impacts, all too often hidden from view through omnibus budget bills and government «feel good» misinformation.

Various changes to the Patent Act are being made as part of Bill C - 43, a second omnibus budget bill which received royal assent on December 16, 2014.

Ontario certainly knows about omnibus budget bills too, which stretch the notion of having to do with provincial finances.

Under the Harper government, the 2012 omnibus budget bill dramatically weakened environmental laws including shifting pipeline reviews to the industry friendly National Energy Board, and restricting who can participate in the process.

Prior to the 2012 omnibus budget Bill C - 38, repealing the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, the National Energy Board (NEB) had had no role in environmental assessment.

Controversial draft legislation appeared Jan. 26, 2007, and the measure was finally passed in an omnibus budget bill in 2010, whacking certain kinds of financial services with GST retroactively.

The Harper Government tabled its 2015 Omnibus Budget Bill (Bill C - 59) on May 7th.

Last Friday, the Government tabled another «large» (359 pages) Omnibus Budget bill, which had little to do with the 2014 Budget.

In the article Carr has this to say about the MPS Takeover effort that was forced on the people of Milwaukee without any public input in the middle of the night as part of an Omnibus Budget bill in 2015:

«Through legislative changes snuck into last year's Omnibus Budget Bill C - 38, the Conservative government has undermined the democratic rights of all Canadians to speak to environmental issues that impact them,» explained Mr. Ruby.

First, as part of an omnibus budget bill, Bill C - 31 in June and then in December by Bill C - 8, the Combating Counterfeit Products Act.

Better known by its catchy acronym, the Cloud Act, the law was tacked on to the 2,232 - page, US$ 1.3 - trillion omnibus budget bill one day ahead of its vote and was signed into law by President Donald Trump without the benefit of the usual congressional scrutiny, hearings or significant public debate.

Through Bill C - 38 — the omnibus budget bill — they muddled the definition of fish habitat and reduced the scope of protection to only fish directly involved in a fishery.

Lawmakers are working overtime — including on key healthcare issues — to wrap up work on a $ 1.2 trillion omnibus budget bill that would fund the government for the balance of the fiscal year.

A major concern of the Idle No More movement is Bill C - 45, the omnibus Budget Bill enacted by the Parliament of Canada as the Jobs and Growth Act, 2012...

The two pieces of legislation in question were passed in 2012 — Bill C - 38, which changed the Fisheries Act, and Bill C - 45, an omnibus budget bill that contained many provisions, including changes to the 130 - year - old Navigable Waters Protection Act.

In response, Congress included in its omnibus budget bill a provision that rejected the proposed tip pooling rule.

One of the components of the Federal Government's omnibus budget bill, the Jobs, Growth and Long - term Prosperity Act, involves amendments to the Investment Canada Act.