Sentences with phrase «omnibus budget bills»

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environmental law occurred over the past four years, most notably through two omnibus budget bills in 2012 that repealed or amended most of Canada's most significant environmental laws.

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

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.

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.

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.»

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

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:

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

Not exact matches

Witness the new rules for takeovers by «state - owned enterprises» — companies owned by a foreign government — recently unveiled in the budget omnibus bill.

As the budget process illustrated last year, the federal government can use subsequent budget omnibus bills to include changes not mentioned in March budgets.

For example, the 2012 Federal Budget never specifically mentioned restrictions to Employment Insurance benefits but the June 2012 budget omnibus bill repealed the section of the Employment Insurance Act that allows recipients to turn down a job because it is not their usual occupation or paysBudget never specifically mentioned restrictions to Employment Insurance benefits but the June 2012 budget omnibus bill repealed the section of the Employment Insurance Act that allows recipients to turn down a job because it is not their usual occupation or paysbudget omnibus bill repealed the section of the Employment Insurance Act that allows recipients to turn down a job because it is not their usual occupation or pays less.

As two former senior Finance Department officials, Peter Devries and Scott Clark, note, «we may not know what's actually in [the budget] until Flaherty tables the budget omnibus bills.»

This view was expressed in Bill C - 59, the recently passed Budget Omnibus Bill, which included legislation that would require future government's to maintain balanced budgets.

It's also worth recalling that, even though he failed to reform health care during his eight years in office, President Bill Clinton still managed to tackle tax reform with the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.

Thirdly, a mini-budget would allow the government to table a Budget omnibus bill, which could include a lot of things that, like previous budget omnibus bills, have nothing to do with the bbudget would allow the government to table a Budget omnibus bill, which could include a lot of things that, like previous budget omnibus bills, have nothing to do with the bBudget omnibus bill, which could include a lot of things that, like previous budget omnibus bills, have nothing to do with the bbudget omnibus bills, have nothing to do with the budgetbudget.

The use of Budget Omnibus Bills has grown to the point that they seriously undermine the credibility of the budget process and the authority of ParliBudget Omnibus Bills has grown to the point that they seriously undermine the credibility of the budget process and the authority of Parlibudget process and the authority of Parliament.

Budget Omnibus Bills should be restricted to proposed tax changes only and all proposed spending initiatives should be presented either through the Main Estimates or through separate legislation, submitted to the applicable Parliamentary Committee for review.

The use of Budget Omnibus Bills has grown to the point that they seriously undermine the integrity and credibility of the budget process and the authority of ParliBudget Omnibus Bills has grown to the point that they seriously undermine the integrity and credibility of the budget process and the authority of Parlibudget process and the authority of Parliament.

Parliamentarians and Canadians will have to wait for the tabling of the Budget Omnibus Bill to see what is actually planed.

In the second Budget Omnibus Bill related to the 2012 Budget, the Government proposed to suspend the operations of the CEIFB until such time the EI Operating Account returns to balance.

Both budgets, however, were followed by massive Budget Omnibus Bills, which contained major changes to a large amount of legislation either vaguely referred to, or not referred to at all, in the budgets.

Stay tuned for the Budget Omnibus Bill

The 2014 budget may be a «bare - bones» budget, but that does not mean there will be a «bare - bones» Budget Omnibusbudget may be a «bare - bones» budget, but that does not mean there will be a «bare - bones» Budget Omnibusbudget, but that does not mean there will be a «bare - bones» Budget OmnibusBudget Omnibus Bill.

With a February budget, we won't see the Budget Omnibus Bill until March or budget, we won't see the Budget Omnibus Bill until March or Budget Omnibus Bill until March or April.

What really matters now is the Budget Omnibus Bill.

Of course, even a «bare - bones» budget does not preclude another 1,000 - page budget omnibus bill.

In the second Budget Omnibus Bill related to the 2012 Budget, the Government proposes to suspend the operations of the Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board (CEIFB) until such time the Employment Insurance (EI) Operating Account returns to balance.

On Wednesday, the Minister of Finance tabled BILL C - 4, the second omnibus bill related to measures proposed in the March 2013 BudBILL C - 4, the second omnibus bill related to measures proposed in the March 2013 Budbill related to measures proposed in the March 2013 Budget.

Right now, the primary focus of the Opposition parties and the media is on the second Budget Omnibus Bill and rightly so.

We will ensure accounting consistency among the Estimates and the Public Accounts; provide costing analysis for each government bill; restore the requirement that government borrowing plans receive Parliamentary approval; end the inappropriate use of omnibus legislation; and we will ensure the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) is truly independent, properly funded, and answerable only, and directly, to Parliament.

A two part Omnibus Bill with over 1000 pages, which included legislative changes, only remotely referred to in the budget or not at all.

Minister Flaherty may deliver his budget March 21st but we may not know what is actually in it until he tables the budget omnibus bill (s).

However, Congress began to pass budget - busting legislation back in 2015 by pursuing a permanent debt - financed doc fix followed by an even more costly tax extender (and omnibus appropriations) bill — at a total cost of over $ 100 billion in 2019.

It says so deep in the bowels of the omnibus bill, err, budget bill.

In the 2007 Budget Omnibus Bill, the previous government amended the Financial Administration Act to eliminate the need to introduce a Borrowing Authority Act for any new borrowing requirements.

If it were to happen it would likely appear miraculously in another budget omnibus bill.

Since 2007, Budget Omnibus Bills have been used to include many legislative changes vaguely mentioned in the Budget, or for that matter, even mentioned in the Budget.

In total, 20 bills have become law through reconciliation, including the 1990 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, and portions of the Affordable Care Act.

The inclusion of these measures in a budget omnibus bill clearly violates the spirit and intent of budget legislation.

(We can talk about the democratic practice of an omnibus bill later, perhaps, because gracious, what a miscarriage of democracy...) So Bill C - 45 is an omnibus bill, attached to our budget currently going through Parliament, with hundreds of provisions included, which (and these are the key ones related to Idle No More) seriously undermine our environmental sustainability as a nation and the sovereign rights of the First Nations still existing within our bordbill later, perhaps, because gracious, what a miscarriage of democracy...) So Bill C - 45 is an omnibus bill, attached to our budget currently going through Parliament, with hundreds of provisions included, which (and these are the key ones related to Idle No More) seriously undermine our environmental sustainability as a nation and the sovereign rights of the First Nations still existing within our bordBill C - 45 is an omnibus bill, attached to our budget currently going through Parliament, with hundreds of provisions included, which (and these are the key ones related to Idle No More) seriously undermine our environmental sustainability as a nation and the sovereign rights of the First Nations still existing within our bordbill, attached to our budget currently going through Parliament, with hundreds of provisions included, which (and these are the key ones related to Idle No More) seriously undermine our environmental sustainability as a nation and the sovereign rights of the First Nations still existing within our borders.

BUt when it comes to reforming Albany, the advocates have some powerful partners, not the least of which is the New York Times, which editorialized today that «the need for reform goes far beyond the budget» and urged Cuomo to «immediately — next week — introduce an omnibus ethics reform bill.»

But then things ground to a halt, as both houses waited for the release of three final budget bills, including a revenue measure that was expected to contain the most controversial elements of the spending plan — the sort of omnibus measure known as a «big ugly.»

Two of 10 budget bills received two - house passage shortly after 1 a.m. Those were the simplest, since most controversial items were removed and to be amended and inserted, or not, sometime Friday into an omnibus measure known in Albany as the «Big Ugly.»