Sentences with phrase «own policy platform»

It's exactly the kind of policy platform that befits a candidate for Treasury Secretary.

Jack Layton unveiled the NDP's policy platform today. Among other things, it promises to eliminate the deficit (i.e. balance the federal budget) within four years. I'm not sure it should.

The NDP is looking for ways to energize its supporters and carve out a distinct policy platform and the minimum wage plank is viewed as a key part of that effort.

Like it or not, Finance Minister Joe Oliver's April budget has now become the fiscal «benchmark» against which their policy platforms will be judged in terms of their commitments to maintain a balanced budget.

Although the Conservatives have made fewer announcements than the other parties since the election call, their policy platform really began last October.

A lower debt target would also be problematic, since it would mean rejecting much of the policy platform on which the government got elected.

All three leaders have «promised» that their policy platforms will not lead to future budget deficits.

With these kinds of benefits on the table, political leaders at both the federal and provincial levels ought to be making CETA a «must do» in their policy platforms.

Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark released his party's policy platform and Economic Recovery Plan.

The BCO's policy platform will be based on the recently published OnTRAC benchmarking report on Ontario's Biotechnology sector.

The detractors have heralded the lack of definitive policy platforms by Kenney as a weakness when in fact it is exactly how Grassroots involvement is supposed to work.

We would recommend that the basic communication message be that the government's entire policy platform will not all be introduced in the 2016 budget.

This pro-growth policy platform can be incorporated into congressional legislation to provide much - needed relief to spur lending and investment in Main Street communities.

At the summit, we announced our intent to publish a National Policy Platform for Marginalized Girls, and issued a call for input.

Why don't you focus on their policy platforms instead of focusing on irrelevant personal characteristics for once?

Your faith in a dead God is vain; you're apparently blind to your own disbelief and sadly cut off from repentance of it; and your prejudiced accusations and support of a policy platform that defiles the sacred fountain of life, pretending to «love» people by clothing them in chains of dependency, expose your fearful guilt.

With the purpose to build and support a farmer - led national organic farmer movement and national policy platform by: developing and advocating policies that benefit organic farmers ¹; strengthening and supporting the capacity of organic farmers and farm organizations; and supporting collaboration and leadership among state, regional and national organic farmer organizations.

These are important findings of the Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Science - Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

CEO of Australia's peak body for the vegetable industry is urging both major parties to release their agriculture policy platforms.

You can read their policy platform there, get talking points, send emails to your legislators from their site and also donate money to their lobbying efforts.

This vague policy platform with regards to job creation must be a source of worry for the teeming unemployed youth of Ghana.

«This is his actual policy platform.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon in Queens on Friday unveiled an environmental policy platform that is geared toward shifting the state to 100 percent renewable energy, strengthening the state's efforts against climate change and rejecting new infrastructure for gas pipelines and other fossil fueles.

We are creating a policy platform wider than the Europe question.

His concerns about Labour's current policy platform notwithstanding, Jarvis also reveals that he would be willing to serve on Jeremy Corbyn's frontbench if asked.

A policy platform that has as its foundation a reputation for sound economic competence.

He has an innovative policy platform that is modernising socialist ideas for the 21st century.

Firstly, encourage the creation of a very serious review into what went wrong for the party at the last election so that mistakes in the message and machine can be dealt with; secondly, encourage the party to create a policy platform ruthlessly focused on generating popularity across the country to raise the party's standing in the polls; and thirdly, secure enough political support that they can ideally walk into Downing Street uncontested.

At 9 a.m., the NYC Council's Progressive Caucus advocates for bike safety and and infrastructure, and discusses transportation priorities in a new policy platform, «Resistance & Progress: 18 Progressive Policies for 2018,» with a press conference and rally co-hosted with Transportation Alternatives, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

But it appears that, depending on how the votes fall, the party could end up approaching the next General Election with a rather different policy platform to those upon which its previous electoral progress was built.

In May 2015, shortly after declining to endorse Clinton following her official entrance into the race a month earlier, de Blasio announced plans to launch the «Progressive Agenda» — a ten - point progressive policy platform.

To those ends, we strive as a group to prioritize issues and build policy platforms that shape the conversation around local progressive politics.

The thinking of T H Green, L T Hobhouse and J A Hobson influenced a policy platform that, from 1906 onward, would lay the foundations of the welfare state.

Ultimately, this Vision will help NKD - as well as our partners - craft campaigns, develop policy platforms, and hold elected Democrats accountable, based on a broad, collective voice from across Brooklyn.

I phrase this more of a question than a comment: surely the level of grassroots devolution we can see with the Obama campaign is confined more to the business of campaigning than actual control over Democratic policy platforms?

(i) in - depth debate about the detailed LibDem policy platform.

«Tory and Ukip policy platforms are merging: tax breaks for those at the top, working people left behind,» Dugher added.

The organizers subsequently announced that the group was mistakenly added as a partner and reiterated that it would stick to its policy platform, which expresses support for complete reproductive freedom.

Not only will you be able to vote in the upcoming leadership election, but you can have a say in forming our policy platform at party conferences as well as choosing local candidates.

Our policy platform for 2016 is clear, concise and shows that we are the party on the side of pupils, parents and patients.

Roy says that the trouble started when our defeat in 1992 was taken to mean - wrongly, in his view - that people wouldn't vote for an «overtly social democratic policy platform».

It remains to be seen how UKIP will fare in a general election campaign, which will bring much closer political, press and public attention to their broader policy platform.

«What we are is putting together is a policy platform... that anyone in politics could take if they come from the open - minded approach to the problem, which says that globalisation is essentially a good thing, not a bad thing, but its risks have to be mitigated,» he said.

But instead of saying they support membership of the single market but want reform of state aid rules, he has decided to validate Theresa May's entire policy platform.

Meanwhile, David Miliband has told the paper he had been very worried about Labour's policy platform and that those concerns had been vindicated.

Fox's policy platform is focused on protecting small, locally owned businesses, and limiting over-development and displacement.

At this early stage in the race, the two candidates have yet to produce comprehensive policy platforms.

It is likely to form the basis for Labour's policy platform for the next general election and contains proposals for:

To bolster its meagre majority, the Conservative leadership needs a policy platform to win over the two groups which it lost most ground to Labour at the general election: young people and urban voters.

The coalition's policy platform was the coalition agreement, negotiated by the party leaders after the 2010 election and never endorsed by the electorate.