Sentences with phrase «provinces llps»

When it comes to investing in clean tech, «larger or more diverse economies stand to benefit more; smaller provinces, whose industrial structure is not as diverse, tend to have smaller economic multipliers,» explains the Conference Board of Canada in a report.

Ottawa shunted responsibility for payday loans onto the provinces in 2007.

Markets across much of the country have softened, particularly in the energy - reliant Prairie provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, where low oil prices are wreaking havoc on regional economies.

The Ontario Retirement Pension Plan is Premier Kathleen Wynne's response to the federal government's refusal in December to expand the CPP at the request of several provinces.

But now, with the aging baby boom generation threatening to strain the country's single - payer system to the breaking point, provinces are exploring new avenues of public - private partnership.

This northern Ontario city of just over 108,000 has been quietly and actively rebuilding after losing its prominence as an important stop on the trade route from western Canada to the eastern provinces.

It's this forbidding territory that Exxon (xom), under Tillerson, has turned into one of Russia's most lucrative oil provinces, affording Russia a crucial entry into the fast - growing oil markets of Asia, generating nearly $ 5 billion in tax dollars and other revenue for the government to date, and generally being, by Moscow's lights, a good corporate citizen.

Regionally, prices were higher in all provinces except British Columbia, which recorded its third consecutive month of disinflation, chiefly attributed to a one - per - cent decrease in food costs.

«What we are asking for as an alliance is all provinces to adopt a similar approach to Ontario,» Laskowski said Friday.

Our first prime minister also made ample use of the now - obsolete power of «disallowance,» which gave him the ability to overrule the provinces whenever he liked.

Unfortunately for the current federal government, the power of the provinces today vastly exceeds their influence in Macdonald's day.

The decision may rest with individual provinces and territories.

With the Conservatives in power, there really is much more of a belief that health care should really be just left to the provinces, and the extent to which the feds are involved if at all is really to support the Canada Health Act through the transfer of funding, but not really to look at whether or not [the act] is actually being fulfilled.

The other nine provinces were mashed into a single space, while the biggest province sat just across the aisle in a relatively spacious spread spanning the equivalent of two typical booths.

Most of the provinces had a tough go of it during the Great Recession.

He eventually took over similar funds in six other provinces.

Although union and corporate contributions are banned federally in Canada, they are still allowed in many provinces, and the number of registered lobbyists working for corporations has increased steadily.

Based on his findings in Yunnan, Block made the assumption that Sino - Forest is perpetuating similar fraud with regard to its holdings in other provinces in China.

With the provinces gaining enhanced ability to dictate trade negotiations, and with Quebec and Ontario heavily invested in supply management, Ottawa is going to have to find new ways to deliver on trade deals that individual provinces dislike.

The Atlantic provinces, Saskatchewan and B.C. remain supportive, he notes.

«This is really a matter of a trade agreement between two provinces, and it's between the two provinces to work out,» he said.

On average, provinces spent $ 758 more per person than they made.

Politicians in various provinces, as well as the United Kingdom and several U.S. states, have questioned the wisdom of granting tax rebates to video game makers.

Other provinces soon struck their own task forces.

Eight out of 10 provinces are forecasted to register deficits in their 2011 - 2012 fiscal years.

The price dive could put pressure on the federal government to the tune of $ 2.5 billion annually for the next four years, according to a fall economic update from Ottawa, and oil - producing provinces such as Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland are staring down revenue and royalty losses worth billions.

So, the only way this CPP expansion can be held back now is if some of signing provinces decide to reverse their position in the next few weeks before indicating final support to the federal government.

Several provinces have made positive noises about it, and so has Canadian Labour Congress president Ken Georgetti.

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

The fact is, a higher proportion of teenagers work at a minimum wage job in most provinces across Canada today than a decade ago (49 per cent across Canada, 70 per cent in Ontario in 2016), but a growing proportion of adults have been doing so as well.

From that point forward, the expansion will be fixed in place unless amended through a subsequent agreement of two - thirds of provinces to reverse the expansion — which is very unlikely.

With this broad support, the legislated double test (two - thirds of population and two - thirds of provinces) for CPP reform is met.

The federal and Ontario governments issued a joint press statement on Monday declaring that approval from provinces must occur by July 15th — less than a month from now.

However in provinces like Ontario, legislation allows companies to pay interns with college credit instead of cash.

But as the graph on house prices shows, it probably would be unproductive to increase borrowing costs to contain a problem that is isolated to two provinces.

At the same time, however, there's growing angst that foreign buyers — namely from mainland China — may be getting into the game, leading to calls for some sort of speculation tax in provinces like B.C.

Some provinces have agencies that can provide employers with free one - stop - shopping for WLES services.

The top marginal tax rates of more than 50 percent that exist in some provinces are a good example.

Alberta was one of only three provinces to post significant employment gains in the month, according to Statistics Canada.

As for forestry, most provinces require people who work on public land to be certified as Registered Professional Foresters (RPF).

Choi says few have dared to invest so close to the North Korean border, with tensions constantly flaring, making Gangwon among the poorest provinces in the country.

It will take several years for Ontario and Quebec to pick up the slack from the resource provinces.

Has offices in multiple American states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, California and New York, along with various Canadian provinces.

This deal was signed by eight provinces — only Quebec and Manitoba withheld their signatures.

The same is true in most other provinces.

Canada's history of protectionism, on the other hand (in addition to restrictions on trade between provinces), has resulted in markets that are generally less competitive than those in the large U.S. market and real wages that do not track productivity growth as closely:

More significant in the bitter dispute over control of Woodside are plans for the two Timor Sea provinces.

The finance department has worked to secure support from the provinces.

The Supreme Court agreed with the provinces, but left Flaherty an opening by ruling that Ottawa has a role in matters of national importance and scope, including preventing systemic risks in the financial system.

But for employees who move and employers that operate in multiple provinces, saving for retirement looks bound to become more complicated.