Sentences with phrase «times of minority government»

Yet in terms of policy payoffs, evidence suggests that the more proportional dispersal of parliamentary seats in the Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales has created the conditions for non-government parties to exert influence, particularly in times of minority government.

Not exact matches

And if we wanted to spend some time on the suject, we could probably find numerous other examples of census data being historically (and, if you believe the New York Times - that agent of the Harper government - presently) misused by governments, often to the significant prejudice of minority members of those societies.

As the chart above illustrates, there is an interesting correlation between the seat - advantage a minority government holds over the official Opposition, and the length of time between general elections when the minority is in power.

Should Stephen Harper's Conservatives remain in power until that time, they will become the country's longest - lasting minority government, surpassing by about a month that of Mackenzie King's 1921 - 1925 administration.

Canadians whose politics are to the left of centre won't like to hear this: Stephen Harper and his Conservative - minority government probably are going to be in power a long, long time.

It seems evident that minority governments with a comparatively narrow seat - advantage over the official Opposition usually stay in power for relatively brief periods of time.

Tyee's McMartin crunches the votes and concludes: «Canadians whose politics are to the left of centre won't like to hear this: Stephen Harper and his Conservative - minority government probably are going to be in power a long, long time.

Public opinion polling during the summer of 2008 placed the Conservatives and Liberals in a virtual dead heat, leading most to speculate at the time that if an election were held there would be a third minority government.

So as a member of the most oppressed minority group in the history of time, religion is the cause of 95 % of the evil in this world and I don't need it in my government.

Tranter began working at Friends of the Parks in 1980, around the time that the federal government sued the Chicago Park District for spending an unfair amount of tax dollars in powerful, white neighborhoods instead of minority communities, she said.

At issue were comments O'Luck made on the Times» City Room blog in February 2009, in which he said that if government programs that benefit businesses owned by women and minorities weren't around «white men and the connected would have access to nearly 100 % of all city, state, and federal government dollars spent.»

Polls at the time mistakenly suggested the election was on a knife edge, with Ed Miliband standing a good chance of becoming prime minister of a minority, or coalition government.

«Mindful» that as a minority government «alliances» would be necessary to pass the next Budget, she said the time was right to «open a discussion about how responsible and progressive use of our tax powers could help build the kind of country we want to be».

If we had PR, of course, over time there would be centre - right and centre - left coalitions: that seems to me pretty much inevitable, unless we developed a regular pattern of preferring minority governments, on the Scottish model.

Political platforms are essentially invalid with a minority government either because they don't have the support to fulfill those promises, no time to complete them (being defeated before passing anything they've promised) or fulfilling part of their promises with some alterations proposed by opposition parties.

This option could play out a number of ways — formal coalition, or a Cameron minority government given limited tacit support to pass a budget, but looking to call a general election that would perhaps give them an overall majority some time later in 2010, or in early 2011.

The 2015 General Election saw a Conservative majority government returned (al biet on a minority of the vote) for the first time since 1992.

Green groups have held weight for quite some time now, of course, and to a large minority of conscientious voters their pronouncements about the government's behaviour have been a cause to vote, or not vote, as the case may be.

At the time of the start of Brexit negotiations, the UK government is already formed as a minority government which is a legitimate government.

In 1974, Labour supporters protested at Heath's attempt to hang on when he had not won the largest number of seats but Harold Wilson bided his time before forming a minority government.

I find that a violation of one of our most basic rights, as did justice William Douglas in a 1973 Supreme Court minority dissent, to wit: «It is no concern of government what an employee does with his or her spare time.»

The Editorial Board treads familiar, almost entirely mythological, ground with their defense of annual testing of all students: Once upon a time, the federal government «kept doling out education money to the states no matter how abysmally their school systems performed,» and the requirement for mass standardized testing was «to make sure that students in all districts were making progress and that poor and minority students were being educated.»

Historically, the country has muddled through its share of minority governments, but none in recent times.

At the time of writing, the Gillard Government was returned to office as a minority gGovernment was returned to office as a minority governmentgovernment.