Sentences with phrase «own election promises»

One of the first things Morneau did as finance minister was keep Trudeau's election promise to reduce the 22 % tax rate to 20.5 %.

Morneau might already be listening, as his budget «deferred» an election promise to drop the rate of tax small - and - medium - sized businesses pay on their income to 9 % from 10.5 %.

Budget cuts not possible - Buswell The state government's economic policy was in tatters last night after Treasurer Troy Buswell conceded he would not achieve the controversial 3 per cent cuts expected to pay for election promises in this year's budget.

The unspoken truth is that many employers see mat leave as a costly, disruptive hassle they would sooner avoid — a sentiment that will only deepen if Justin Trudeau makes good on his election promise to extend government - backed parental leave from 12 to 18 months.

The DPJ has already said it may break election promises to accomplish that, and surveys suggest the public would support it.

There had been speculation one or more of the following election promises would be included: • Increase the annual contribution limit for the TFSA to $ 10,000; • Increase the limit for Children's Fitness Credit to $ 1,000 (and make it refundable); • Introduce Adult Fitness Tax Credit of up to $ 500; • Permit income splitting of up to $ 50,000 for couples with children under 18.

The consequence of missing the forecasted period, of course, would be a delay in enacting the above - mentioned election promises concerning increasing TFSA contribution limits and so on.

In Ontario, for instance, Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne has included a separate provincial pension counterpart as one of her party's key election promises ahead of the province's June 12 election.

That message orchestration starts in Stouffville, Ont., where he was reportedly set announce a small business tax cut shortly before noon, effectively returning to a 2015 election promise then failed to deliver on in the government's first two budgets.

The Liberals have introduced changes as they try to fulfil their 2015 election promise to improve Parliament's financial processes by bringing more consistency and clarity when it comes to government accounting of how it spends public money.

This Sunday marks the fourth anniversary of Stephen Harper's election promise that a Conservative government would «never go back into deficit.»

The federal Liberal Party's recent election promise to create a new tax bracket for rich Canadians has been quickly decried by — well, rich Canadians.

Keep in mind that we have French parliamentary elections due to take place on June 11 and 18, and we expect the outcome of those votes to play a big role in Macron's ability to deliver on his election promises.

The Conservatives attempted to fulfill a major 2011 election promise to introduce income splitting but tweaked it just a bit by introducing a cap of $ 2000 a family.

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, many British Columbians believed the Liberal election promises last year.

Do you have the imagination, capacity, and the policy independence, to put together a policy agenda that is better both in policy and political terms, than simply rubber - stamping some misguided and out of date 2011 election promises?

On the pipeline, the B.C. NDP is trying to fulfil an election promise made last year.

Perhaps the Parliamentary Budget Officer should be asked to cost the election promises of all three political parties based on an updated economic and fiscal outlook.

Subtracting NDP election promises from available funds would leave a surplus of $ 1.7 billion in 2015 - 16 and $ 1.5 billion in 2019 - 20.

As result, their «election promises» total about $ 12.5 billion by 2019 - 20, roughly in line to that proposed by the other parties.

This was quite a change from the 2006 election promise and related documents, in which they had indicated that it would be an independent agency, reporting directly to Parliament.

«Today's budget delivered on the government's election promise to boost spending for social programs and stimulate growth in key sectors of our economy.

The Conservatives have yet to release a detailed costing of their election promises.

This will reduce economic growth in Canada even further and could push the deficit (including election promises) to $ 25 to $ 30 billion (1.5 % of GDP) in the next few years.

In the tabling of the Main Estimates, the President of the Treasury Board made no reference to the election promise and why it was not honoured at this time.

However, he does face the very difficult challenge of trying to fit a long list of very expensive election promises and commitments (e.g., eliminate the deficit in four years) into a fiscal framework that he can claim is realistic, prudent, fiscally sustainable, and transparent.

As difficult as it might be, the government should review all existing election promises.

His latest Update does not include the cost of the Liberals» election promises.

This raises the question of whether the Finance Minister will be able to balance the budget in 2019 - 20 if the Government attempts to fully implement its election promises.

Panel 1 in the Table below provides cost estimates for most of the Liberal election promises so far.

For the Liberals and New Democratics, the figures come directly from their costing of their election promises.

The latest budget contained two of the election promises: potential reimbursement to the province of Quebec for costs associated with the potential harmonization of the provincial sales tax with the GST and the phase - out of political subsidies.

With Parliament recessed for the summer and an election call imminent, all three major political parties will now spend the coming weeks making new election promises.

This leaves raising taxes or finding new funds through reallocations of existing spending and revenues to fund their election promises.

The Table below provides cost estimates for most of the Liberal election promises as of August 26.

Unfortunately, by then, most budget decisions had already been made and the chances that the Committee's recommendations (other than Liberal election promises) would have any impact on the Budget were virtually non-existent.

A surplus of only $ 200 million is now forecast for 2015 - 16, down $ 3.5 billion from the surplus of $ 3.7 billion forecast in its April 2013 Update, leaving the Government little flexibility to introduce new policy initiatives, or honour its 2011 election promises of introducing new tax expenditures, in advance of the 2015 election.

The Table below provides cost estimates for most of the Liberal election promises as of September 1.

That adjusted forecast projected a surplus of $ 7.2 billion in 2019 - 20, allowing you to claim a balanced budget in 2019 - 20, after incorporating the net impact of your election promises.

That includes how the Liberals will be able to afford all of their election promises.

By 2017, B.C. families and industries will have seen their power costs increase by 80 per cent on the B.C. Liberal's watch, including as a result of Premier Clark's broken election promises on hydro rates.

France's Socialist government announced the first real - terms increase in the minimum wage for six years on Tuesday, but limited the rise to 0.6 percentage points above inflation as it sought to balance election promises with fears of damaging employment.

When a government breaks an election promise it usually attracts a fair bit of controversy.

TERRACE — The New Democrats agree with the newly formed Northwest B.C. Resource Benefits Alliance that the B.C. Liberal government should act on their election promise to share Northern resources with Northern communities.

Find a summary of the major political parties» election platforms and key election promises for the 2008 federal election in Canada.

In one hundred days we have fulfilled a number of critical election promises that we made to Albertans.

Candidates in Sunday's election promise to spend more.

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government rises from the spring legislative session today after driving up families» costs, shedding more B.C. jobs and breaking key election promises.

Immediately after their election, the New Democratic Party government implemented one of their key election promises to ban corporations and unions from donating money to political parties.

For the first two years, the fiscal cost of the election promises in the March 2016 Budget corresponds closely to what was outlined in the 2015 election campaign.