Sentences with phrase «protect jobs and the economy»

Two and a half years ago, Canadians gave our Government a strong mandate: a mandate to protect jobs and our economy; a mandate to keep taxes low; a mandate to make our families and communities safe.

By Peter Kennedy The Canadian Senate says it is moving to protect jobs and the economy by adopting a Bill designed to ensure that Kinder Morgan Canada's [KML - TSX] stalled Trans... Read more»

Action across the wider economy is necessary to protect jobs and the economy in a recession.

Asked whether Labour was the party of soft Brexit, Mr Watson told BBC Newsnight: «Yes, you have seen Keir Starmer's statement, we think that being part of the customs union and the single market is important in those transitional times because that is the way you protect jobs and the economy.

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Cuban, who supported Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton during the election, went on to say that Trump's opposers should «Propose a deal that protects our environment, economy and jobs and gives us flexibility.»

Our government's job is to protect all of us and our freedoms and the economy and companies.

«We gave a lot of attention to how to structure the CFPB and how to protect its independence, because its job is to go after some very powerful forces in the economy,» the Massachusetts Democrat said.

«My job as a prime minister and our job as a government is to bring everyone together and say we're all getting what we want — in that we are moving forward to protect the environment and grow the economy at the same time, and that doesn't have to be divisive,» he said.

Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining balanced budgets; protecting Canadians from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.

Mr. Speaker, based on our policy objective of ensuring macroeconomic stability, and growing the economy for job creation, whilst protecting social spending, the following macroeconomic targets are set for the 2018 fiscal year: • Overall GDP growth rate of 6.8 percent; • Non-oil GDP growth rate of 5.4 percent; • End period inflation rate of 8.9 percent; • Average inflation rate of 9.8 percent; • Fiscal deficit of 4.5 % percent GDP; • Primary balance (surplus) of 1.6 percent of GDP; and • Gross Foreign Assets to cover at least 3.5 months of imports of goods and services

«By providing New York's farmers with the resources they need to be successful, we are supporting New York's economy and growing jobs while taking steps to protect the state's vibrant natural resources,» said Cuomo.

«Wendy is someone I know personally to be deeply committed to helping make our state and country even better by helping grow our economy and create jobs, strengthening our national security, protecting our veterans and improving health care and education.

«In Congress, I've fought tirelessly to revive New York's manufacturing economy, bring jobs back to America, secure the border, rebuild our military and protect our veterans.

The GMB believes that joining the single currency is the best way to protect British jobs and keep a strong and healthy economy.

The entire global economy is sitting on the edge of an abyss and the urgent priority for the British people is to protect our economy and their jobs by getting this Eurozone crisis fixed.

«It's common practice to extend laws to allow more time to fully gauge and measure their effectiveness, especially when that law is intended to protect good - paying, middle - class jobs that are at the heart of New York City's tourism economy,» Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, one of the bill's sponsors, said in a statement.

ALBANY, NY (10/28/2013)(readMedia)-- The Business Council of New York State, Inc. today announced its support for Proposition 5 on the November election ballot, a constitutional amendment that will help protect manufacturing jobs and strengthen the overall economy in the Adirondack Region.

Pramilla has pledged to focus her attention on several major issues in the 42nd district: protecting our environment, transforming our energy infrastructure to renewable energy, transitioning our economy to support «green» job creation, education, public health, safety and welfare.

It's about making sure our children receive a good education, about protecting our streets from guns, and about creating jobs in this tough economy.

«As the Council's Environmental [Committee] chairman, I want to continue working with my partners Mike Bloomberg to fully implement PlaNYC, his visionary environmental sustainability plan that is cleaning our air, reducing asthma, protecting our water supply and reviving our economy by creating thousands of green jobs and growing a thriving green economy,» said Gennaro, who did not endorse Bloomberg in 2001 or 2005.

They could have been working tirelessly to ensure jobs, livelihoods and the economy were protected by cooperating with our European friends and neighbours, not trying to blame them for our difficulty, and maintaining the fiction that this would all be so easy.

«It's a growing trend and we have a growing economy, with more jobs, which means more workers need to be protected.»

Banking Reform The parties agree that reform to the banking system is essential to avoid a repeat of Labour's financial crisis, to promote a competitive economy, to sustain the recovery and to protect and sustain jobs.

«I'm proud to say that we are leveling the playing field to ensure that our state's most significant infrastructure projects are built with quality materials that are American made, help vitalize our local and national economies, spur job creation and protect workers right here in our own backyard.»

Borrowing to shorten the recession is the right action to protect our economy and our members» jobs.

The more residents of the Hudson Valley / Catskills region learn about Julian's vision for creating middle class jobs, growing our economy and protecting Medicare and a woman's right to choose, the more they know Julian will represent them in Washington.»

«I would love to see both party's candidates put the nonsense aside, and let's focus on jobs, let's focus on the economy, let's focus on the $ 18 trillion debt, let's focus on national security, let's focus on terrorism and how we can protect our communities and our families.»

The parties agree that reform to the banking system is essential to avoid a repeat of Labour's financial crisis, to promote a competitive economy, to sustain the recovery and to protect and sustain jobs.

Kelly Brannen, Managing Director of Niacet and Co-Chairman of Power for Economic Prosperity (PEP), said: «Governor Paterson has secured his legacy in Western New York by protecting the industrial base of the regional economy and with his actions tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs will be sustained for years to come.

Addabbo's platform focuses on creating jobs and building the local economy, fiscal responsibility, education, cracking down on crime and protecting the environment.

The five pledges are: secure the recovery; raise family living standards; build a hi - tech economy; protect frontline investment in policing, schools, childcare and the NHS — with a new guarantee of cancer test results within a week; and strengthen fairness in communities through controlled immigration, guarantees of education, apprenticeships and jobs for young people and a crackdown on antisocial behaviour.

«We can protect the health and environment of Richmond and at the same time create jobs and grow a more prosperous economy.»

Well - funded protected areas, and especially those with lions, can play a critical role in developing tourism industries whose revenues can help to grow and diversify economies and create jobs.

«There is no greater joy than repeatedly proving that by protecting the environment, we drive good job creation — as compared to the bill of goods we have been sold for generations, that «if we dare protect our land, air and environment, we sacrifice our economy,»» she said in a recent Philadelphia Magazine interview.

«Corals provide habitat to support fisheries that feed millions of people; generate jobs and income to local economies through recreation, tourism and fisheries; and protect coastlines from storms and erosion,» said NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco in a statement from the agency.

Protect Our Winters, an environmental advocacy group, accompanied the athletes and presented sobering facts about the economics of the industry: Low snow years have caused the loss of 17,400 jobs and decreased the estimated value to the economy by over $ 1 billion since 2001.

Steven Sandherr, CEO of the Associated General Contractors, said, «There are few more effective ways to create good jobs, deliver great roads, build a strong economy and protect taxpayers than to invest in infrastructure.

While there is no way to predict what the state of the economy will be when you graduate, there are ways to increase your chances of getting a job upon graduation and to protect yourself against taking out too much student loan debt.

Help keep money in the local economy, create local jobs, and protect the environment when you shop local.

To build on this progress, the Obama Administration is putting in place tough new rules to cut carbon pollution — just like we have for other toxins like mercury and arsenic — so we protect the health of our children and move our economy toward American - made clean energy sources that will create good jobs and lower home energy bills.

With these revisions and an update to the state's net metering policy in the fall, Massachusetts will grow its economy, protect solar jobs, and maintain its position as one of our country's leading solar states.»

Her views are driven not only by the desire to protect our environment from pollution, but also by the opportunity she sees to grow the economy through new industries and new jobs.

Likewise, the U.S. energy revolution — which has made the United States the world's leading oil and natural gas producer — shows how energy can grow the economy, create jobs and protect the environment through market - driven innovation.

Firstly, it should make a major contribution to reviving the world economy, saving and creating jobs, and protecting vulnerable groups.

These comments were form letters signed by Sierra Club members that thanked the States for protecting the climate, reducing pollution, creating jobs, and growing the economy by reducing the cap.

Here is an easy way to do so, and with Border Adjustments we can grow our economy, protect US jobs, and strongly encourage all other countries to follow our lead:

This is about protecting local economies and this is about protecting jobs.»

That's because the EPA has structured the plan to give each state, or groups of states, enough time to comply in a way best suited for their local economies, meaning they can create their own plans to protect existing jobs and spur the creation of new ones all while reducing pollution.

Rather than do so, we can demand policies that will protect our climate (while also cleaning our air and water, creating jobs, improving our economy, and making our lives more convenient), or we can sit on our butts and let big fossil fuel companies control our governmental bodies in order to maximize their profits (at the expense of society as a whole).

Combining clean energy with local ingenuity has time and again proven that with the remarkable knowledge and entrepreneurial spirit we have in our country, we can create green jobs that not only grow our economy, but protect our vital resources.»