Sentences with phrase «protecting vulnerable citizens»

Protecting vulnerable citizens at a critical time of need will be the theme animating Mr. Catalano's remarks.

As summer heatwaves intensify across Canada, smaller cities need to follow the lead of Toronto and Vancouver - to protect vulnerable citizens from injury, disease and death.

«In an age when the Internet is increasingly being used for criminal and exploitive purposes, it is the responsibility of parents and all Canadians to protect our vulnerable citizens», says MP Smith.

From the beginning, courts have viewed their role with regard to child custody determinations as one of parens patriae — a duty to protect vulnerable citizens.

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Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.»

On one level, the Bible affirms the government's first and most basic job to protect its citizens, especially the most vulnerable, our children.

We just need the domestic violence laws already in place to protect adults to be extended to protect our most vulnerable, voiceless, voteless citizens, our children.

His plan to help coordinate and standardize school, child care and health care facility safety programs is critical to protect our most vulnerable citizens.

The documentation that protects citizen's rights would be completely vulnerable to drastic change, putting many New Yorkers at risk.

«In his speech today, Governor Cuomo outlined a clear progressive vision for protecting our most vulnerable citizens, continued economic development and job creation, a fairer criminal justice system, a more equitable educational system, greater infrastructure investment and a plan for addressing sexual harassment in New York State.

Despite the fact that 2016 will be remembered for citizens fundamentally voting against our own wellbeing, this year was also the first that voters solidly got behind drug policy reform in order to protect the vulnerable in society.

Happily though, it will be increasingly difficult for those in power to maintain that prohibition protects the vulnerable, when other countries are moving to legally regulate to protect their citizens.

A decade after his autistic son died at the hands of a care worker, Michael Carey says the state still isn't doing enough to protect its most vulnerable citizens.

«The city abdicated its responsibility to safeguard our communities and to protect our most vulnerable citizens.»

«The 2018 elections are critical in electing individuals who will not put the special interests of a select few ahead of the most important functions of government — education, safety and protecting our most vulnerable citizens.»

Each one of these consequences of climate change will require policies to protect our citizens, especially those most vulnerable to violent weather.

The Killino Firm's West Palm Beach Child Injury Lawyers dedicate themselves to protecting the rights of our most precious and vulnerable citizens.

The Carter majority thus concluded at para. 315 that the Rodriguez court's articulation of the legislative objective of the existing law was not restricted to the narrow purpose of only protecting the «vulnerable», but also with the «societal concern with preserving life» in general, and therefore that concerns over the fundamental shift in societal values that would arise if the state permits some citizens to kill others in certain circumstances, can not be simply brushed aside.

Government has a responsibility to protect citizens from harm, especially the young and most vulnerable.