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This campaign has cross-party support; earlier this year Business minister Andrew Griffiths asked the pub companies in his constituency to stop using plastic straws.

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For these sins he was demoted and has spent the past couple of years as the minister of state for small business.

Over the summer, Gordon and Stanford separately devoted columns to the most under - reported Canadian business story of 2016: within a few months, Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz will agree on the parameters the central bank will follow for the next five years.

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As Canadian Business went to press, it was widely expected that federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's March 29 budget would include an announcement that the cutoff for Old Age Security (OAS) will be raised, which could compel millions of Canadians to delay their golden years.

British Prime Minister Theresa May will restate her desire for a two - year Brexit implementation period when she meets European business organizations on Monday, her office said in a statement.

The minister faced a backlash over his initial plans to change small business taxes last year before backing down on some of the proposed changes and reviving a promise to reduce the small business tax rate.

The 49 - year old Clement has a prominent place in Stephen Harper's government; he is arguably the most ambitious industry minister in a decade, pursuing new copyright legislation, anti-spam legislation, strategies to improve Canada's online business acumen and exploring more foreign investment in the wireless sector.

Bill Curry reports in today's Globe that, at last year's economic policy retreat, business leaders urged Finance Minister Flaherty to reduce the pay of «overpriced» Canadian workers, including through anti union right to work legislation.

Many analysts are referring to this as the «Modi effect,» in honor of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, elected two years ago on promises to reinvigorate business growth by cutting red tape and increasing infrastructure spending.

Your turn, geothermal (p. 100 and p. 6, 19 — 21 of the budget's tax measures document): Ottawa provides a pair of tax breaks to businesses that invest in clean energy and efficiency, and it's become a budget tradition for the Finance Minister to add technologies to the list each year.

Now, so too has the academic who advised our federal minister of finance that it would be a smart idea to change the 40 - year - old rules that govern Canada's small businesses, with a mere 75 - day «consultation» process, in the dog days of summer.

Twenty - one years on, Modi will address the world's financial and business elite as Prime Minister of one of the world's fastest growing economies — and as head of a government that has taken far - reaching steps such as demonetisation and the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST).

The Honourable Bardish Chagger, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister of Small Business and Tourism, joined senior officials from the China National Tourism Administration for the formal launch of the Canada - China Year of Tourism on March 21.

Senators — who began work on this report with the endorsement of the federal finance minister — recommend the government delay implementing any proposed changes for at least a year so that private corporations have the time to understand the impact these will have on their business.

Moreover, before entering provincial politics Minister Oakes served on B.C.'s Small Business Roundtable for many years, and is thus very aware of our issues and priorities.

Minister, the ongoing controversy over small - business tax rules underscores a point that our association, and many independent tax experts, have been making for years: it is time to review Canada's tax system with the goal of strengthening the incentives for investment and growth.

He joined the board after serving six years as an elected MLA and cabinet minister for the government of British Columbia, where his various responsibilities included three cabinet posts encompassing economic development, labour and small business.

While the Canadian government has yet to respond publicly to the recommendations, my weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) reports that according to documents recently obtained under the Access to Information Act, earlier this year Industry Minister James Moore launched a series of private consultations with Canadian business on intellectual property issues.

This is a trend that goes hand in hand with the church's general infatuation with corporate business models — as evidenced in recent years by the invention of a new breed of minister: the executive pastor armed with an M.Div.

Led by Trade Minister Steven Ciobo, Trade Special Envoy Andrew Robb and Tourism and International Education Minister Richard Colbeck, this year's edition will see more than 1000 delegates, mostly small - to - medium business owners, attend events spread over nine cities on the mainland as well as Hong Kong.

Elders is pulling the pin on its live export business, less than a year after the rural services group sent the first cattle to China under a «breakthrough» deal trumpeted by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce.

If the next British prime minister can weather the early storm, it's reasonable to assume he or she will be able to do constructive business with the EU in a year or two.

Small businesses will be paid # 1,500 when they take on their first young apprentices — a move ministers hope will support up to 40,000 new apprenticeships over the next year.

«Mr. Olorunsola who has been in the industry for 31 years has served as Strategic Business Adviser to the Minister of Petroleum Resources (2008 - 2009); Manager, Opportunity Delivery and Studies Centre at Shell; Reserves and Technology Manager (Africa), Shell (E&P) International, Netherlands; Business Interface Manager (Russia), Shell Technology (E&P) International, Netherlands; and Petroleum Engineering Manager, Shell Nigeria.

The deputy prime minister and business secretary Vince Cable are thought to be concerned that the government is not taking a sharp enough stick to the banks, and fear another round of lavish bonuses at the start of next year.

Related Tory policies would see a doubling of the time period in which minister can not lobby government from one to two years, and a re-writing of the ministerial code so that any ex-minister who ignores guidance issued by the advisory committee on business appointments will lose some or all of their ministerial pension.

She said: «As a dedicated supporter of British business, who has spent years raising business issues from the outside, Lord Jones has said on many occasions how delighted he was to join the government as trade and investment minister, working as part of a successful team focused on maintaining the stability and competitiveness of the British economy.

«After eight enjoyable years as minister of science and innovation in the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), I believe this is the right moment to take up again my business and charitable activities,» he said today.

Speaking earlier this year, business and enterprise minister Malcolm Wicks said the UK was committed to tightening arms trade laws.

The government has unveiled the first round of its three - year funding to help struggling businesses, but Labour has accused ministers of refusing to invest in growth.

The CEO of the Redcar steelworks had sent some extremely disobliging letters about him to the then prime minister, and Vince Cable had been far too hopeless as business secretary during the early years of the coalition, but these were crosses he had learned to bear.

Francis Maude, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, warned that the «years of plenty» in the public sector were over and said that the Tories would bring in outsiders to oversee the work of government departments and ensure they were delivering on their business plans.

«For years and of course as part of our Young African Leaders initiative, we are training young entrepreneurs and we give them small grants to start or to grow businesses, but the focus of what the regional minister and I are talking about tonight, is looking at youth employment in the context of agro industry.»

The cost of providing official cars for Labour ministers rose by nearly # 500,000 last year as the country suffered through recession, with Lord Mandelson's huge former Department for Business, Innovation and Skills incurring the biggest bill for ferrying ministers around.

Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Osei Kyei - Mensah - Bonsu, who is in charge of government business in the House, in a recent interview on TV3 expressed skepticism government will be able to fulfill all its promises within four years.

And every comment by senior Cabinet ministers saying they would be happy or relaxed to see us walk out, and every hint that a referendum could happen as early as next year - before any meaningful reform agenda could be achieved - only adds to the uncertainty and risk for British businesses.

The Greater Accra Deputy Minister, Elizabeth Sackey, stressed that, Greater Accra suffers flooding every year, and it has affected businesses, some of which are forced to relocate.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, Minister for Small Business Kelly O'Dwyer and Australia's first Indigenous Minister Ken Wyatt have added their voices to a chorus of support for Year 12 students; joining other MPs and Australians such as Melissa Doyle, Osher Günsberg, Conrad Sewell, Jeremy Fernandez and many more.

• The Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee in the House of Commons should monitor and report on higher education funding and provision each year, assessing the impact of changes on disadvantaged students, as well as mature and part - timers; • Better co-ordination between higher education ministers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to rationalise student funding policies across the UK; • An investigation by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) into the impact of the latest changes to grants and loans, to ensure value for money for students and taxpayers; • Stronger evaluation of university spending of # 750m a year on outreach and access programmes to maximise their impact.

According to a Fraser Institute analysis, the increase in pension premiums, spread out over several years, «will more than wipe out the benefits» of the Trudeau government's key tax talking point, the famous middle - class income - tax cut that Finance Minister Bill Morneau keeps referring to as background justification for tightening tax rules for private corporations and small - businesses.

Global Tourism Economy Forum (GTEF) is stepping into its fifth year as a leading global tourism platform where tourism and economy ministers, the world's most influential business leaders, decision - makers and academia come together to discuss how different industries can capitalize on tourism development and contribute to economic growth.

A briefing document given to the former UK business minister Vince Cable for a meeting with senior BP officials last year, seen by the Guardian, gives a glimpse of the firm's tight connections to British government officials.

Business Green: China confirms it is moving forward with carbon market plan as India's prime minister vows to double renewable energy capacity within four years.

Patricia Espinosa, who last year took the helm as executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), was in the UK this week to speak with businesses, NGOs and Nick Hurd, the UK climate change minister, on how to sustain and increase momentum on climate action.

In her description of the science, the former prime minister draws heavily on a pamphlet called A plain English guide to climate change which was published in December 1997 by the Reason Foundation, another lobby group that the following year received $ 70,000 from Exxon to «assess public policy alternatives on issues with direct bearing on the company's business operations and interests».»

«Italian ministers estimate that the amount of food wasted throughout the country is costing Italian businesses and households more than 12 billion euros ($ 13.3 billion USD) a year, which equals about 1 percent of the country's gross domestic product — no small amount, when one considers that the country currently has a public debt of 135 percent.»

Management in the UK could be prosecuted for failure to prevent fraud by staff Speaking at the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime in September this year, the Attorney General reiterated the Prime Minister's priority of expanding economic opportunities — meaning businesses «of all sizes» should be better held accountable for their failures.

Kelly v. Minister of National Revenue 2013 FCA 171 Indians, Inuit and Métis — Taxation — Exemption — Personalty on reserve The taxpayer, an Indian within the meaning of the Indian Act, appealed from income tax assessments for taxation years 1994 to 2003 inclusive, on the basis that his business income was «personal property situated on a reserve» within the meaning of s. 87 of the Indian Act and was therefore exempt from tax.

Private general insurance companies might reduce business under the Prime Minister's Jan Suraksha schemes - Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana and Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY)- from the next financial year (FY17).