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LEFT GOVERNMENT [20 records]

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Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
  • Banking
  • Investment
DEF

That part of the capital market in which short-term financial obligations are bought and sold. These include treasury bills and other federal government securities maturing in three years or less and commercial paper, bankers’ acceptances, trust company guaranteed investment certificates and other instruments with a year or less left to maturity.

OBS

These [short-term financial obligations] include treasury bills and other federal government securities maturing in three years or less and commercial paper, bankers’ acceptances, trust company guaranteed investment certificates and other instruments with a year or less left to maturity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
  • Banque
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Marché de capitaux sur lequel sont échangés les titres de créances négociables à court terme, notamment les bons du Trésor, les billets de trésorerie, les acceptations bancaires et les certificats de dépôt.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Finanzas
  • Operaciones bancarias
  • Inversiones
DEF

Mercado que incluye todas las formas de crédito e inversiones a corto plazo, tales como los descuentos de documentos comerciales, los pagarés a corto plazo, los descuentos de certificados de depósito negociables, reportes, depósitos a la vista, pagarés y aceptaciones bancarias. En general los instrumentos del mercado de dinero se caracterizan por un alto grado de seguridad en cuanto a recuperación del principal, ya que son altamente negociables y tienen un bajo nivel de riesgo.

OBS

Los certificados de depósito, las aceptaciones y el papel comercial negociable son el tipo de instrumentos que normalmente se manejan en el mercado monetario.

OBS

mercado de dinero: término extraído del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 2 2019-06-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Dog and Cat Breeding
OBS

Animal Aid Foundation is a public foundation registered with the Government of Canada. The foundation was established to address the crisis of animal overpopulation that has resulted from animals that have been left un-spayed and un-neutered and that have been reproducing year after year. The foundation is 100% volunteer run.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Élevage des chiens et chats

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
  • Transport of Goods
DEF

Government contract warehouse for the storage of cargoes left unclaimed for ten working days after availability. Unclaimed cargoes are auctioned publicly after one year.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Transport de marchandises

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comercio exterior
  • Transporte de mercancías
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Record 4 2017-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Public Sector Budgeting
CONT

This means tackling the high debt burden, which is now absorbing more than a third of federal revenues, has robbed the government of fiscal flexibility, and has left the fiscal situation extremely vulnerable to economic slowdowns and increases in interest rates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Budget des collectivités publiques
CONT

Cela signifie qu'ils doivent s'attaquer au lourd endettement de l'État, qui absorbe maintenant plus du tiers des recettes fédérales, prive le gouvernement de sa marge de manœuvre financière et rend la situation financière extrêmement vulnérable aux ralentissements de l'économie et aux variations des taux d'intérêt.

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
DEF

Liberal principle stating that the government interference in business should be minimal.

OBS

Primarily a concept that business activity is of no concern to the government, and that business will operate properly and be regulated sufficiently if left to the pressures of the marketplace.

OBS

laissez-faire: term and definition reproduced from the CAPITAL Business Dictionary with the permission of LID Editorial Empresarial.

Key term(s)
  • laissez-faire economy
  • laissez-faire system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
DEF

Principe libéral où l'administration intervient le moins possible dans le secteur patronal.

OBS

laissez-faire : terme et définition extraits du CAPITAL Business Dictionary et reproduits avec l'autorisation de LID Editorial Empresarial.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Doctrinas, políticas y sistemas económicos
DEF

Principio liberal por el que la Administración debe intervenir lo menos posible en la vida empresarial.

CONT

Los exponentes de esta doctrina argumentan que la libertad capacita al individuo para desarrollarse mental, física y económicamente, y que la prosperidad general y el bienestar de un país y, por tanto, el progreso se producen más rápidamente cuando se rigen por los principios de aquélla ; asimismo, apuntan a los primeros días del capitalismo estadounidense y muestran cómo un país bajo los preceptos del laissez-faire progresó desde el primitivismo hasta ser la principal potencia del mundo aproximadamente en 100 años.

OBS

dejar hacer: término y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 6 2015-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
  • Labour and Employment
CONT

Treasury Board officials say government layoffs... and pay freezes have left employees stressed out and demoralized.

Key term(s)
  • freeze of salary
  • payment pause
  • pay pause

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)
  • Travail et emploi
DEF

Action par laquelle le gouvernement interdit ou limite momentanément tout changement dans les taux de salaires en vue de stabiliser l'économie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Remuneración (Gestión del personal)
  • Trabajo y empleo
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Record 7 2014-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transfer of Personnel
  • Federal Administration
CONT

As a result, by the end of the fiscal year, the majority of affected employees had either left to seek career opportunities outside of the federal government, or found an alternative funded position within another department or agency.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mobilité du personnel
  • Administration fédérale
CONT

Ainsi, à la fin de l’exercice financier, la plupart des employés touchés avaient quitté la fonction publique pour chercher des débouchés à l’extérieur du gouvernement fédéral ou avaient trouvé un poste provisionné dans un autre ministère ou organisme.

Spanish

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Record 8 2014-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (Canada)
OBS

A site located in the Northwest Territories.

OBS

Coordinates: 67° 38’ 25" N, 134° 18’ 12" W (Northwest Territories).

OBS

Literal English translation of "Tr’ih Choo Iintyin, "provided by the Government of the Northwest Territories : boat—big—was left here.

OBS

On June 21, 2013, the Government of the Northwest Territories officially recognized over 400 traditional Gwich’in place names reflecting their land use across the Gwich’in Settlement Area of the Northwest Territories.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
OBS

Site situé dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest.

OBS

Coordonnées : 67° 38' 25" N, 134° 18' 12" O (Territoires du Nord-Ouest).

OBS

Traduction littérale française de «Tr’ih Choo Iintyin», d’après la traduction littérale anglaise fournie par le gouvernement des Territoires du Nord-Ouest : bateau - grand - a été laissé ici.

OBS

Le 21 juin 2013, le gouvernement des Territoires du Nord-Ouest a officiellement reconnu plus de 400 noms géographiques traditionnels en Gwich'in, reflétant ainsi leur utilisation à travers la région désignée des Gwich'in dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest.

Spanish

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Record 9 2014-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Theories and Doctrines
CONT

Such a left government would certainly arouse the intense hostility of capital and would come under huge pressure to reverse its programme from day one.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et doctrines politiques
CONT

La dévaluation de mars 1983 est souvent vue comme le moment où, le gouvernement de gauche reconnaît les difficultés économiques et s’y adapte.

Spanish

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Record 10 2011-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Accounting
CONT

There are additional costs that have been left with government, related to the pre‑closing liabilities that were with AECL [Atomic Energy of Canada Limited] and the CANDU Reactor Division.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité publique

Spanish

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Record 11 2010-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decision-Making Process
  • Federal Administration
DEF

An agreement entered into by the Government of Canada with an employee takeover company, comprised of the former employee or group of former employees who have left the Public Service and provide for the government, from the private sector, the same or a similar service that he, she or they performed while working in the Public Service.

OBS

The [Employee Takeover Policy] allows the employee or employee group to establish a private-sector entity to negotiate or compete for a government service-delivery contract. This contract may include a lease or license.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Processus décisionnel
  • Administration fédérale
DEF

Entente conclue entre le gouvernement du Canada et une entreprise créée aux fins de la prise en charge composée d'un ex-fonctionnaire ou d'un groupe d'ex-fonctionnaires qui a démissionné de la fonction publique pour offrir, à titre privé, le service qu'il fournissait, ou un service semblable, lorsqu'il appartenait à la fonction publique.

OBS

La [Politique de prise en charge de services de l'État par des fonctionnaires] permet au fonctionnaire ou au groupe de fonctionnaires de créer une entreprise privée pour négocier ou soumissionner des activités de prestation de services du gouvernement. Le marché peut prévoir un bail ou une licence.

OBS

Quand le contexte est clair, on parle tout simplement de «prise en charge» (PC).

Key term(s)
  • prise en charge
  • PC

Spanish

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Record 12 2007-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Proper Names
  • Etiquette and Protocol (General)
OBS

The Royal Victorian Chain is an award, instituted in 1902 by King Edward VII as a personal award of the Monarch(i. e. not an award by the British or any other Commonwealth Realm government). Although it is similar in appearance to the Royal Victorian Order, the two awards are unrelated. The Royal Victorian Chain does not confer upon its recipients any style or title-in fact, the Chain is not even given a precedence within any Commonwealth honours system-but it represents a personal token of high distinction and esteem from the Monarch. The Chain can be conferred upon men and women, both of the Realms and foreign. The chain is in gold, decorated with motifs of Tudor rose, Thistle, Shamrock and Lotus Flower(symbolizing England, Scotland, Ireland and India respectively), and a crowned, red enamelled cipher of King Edward VII "ERI"(Edwardus Rex Imperator), surrounded by a gold wreath for men, upon which the badge is suspended. The chain is worn around the collar by men, or with the four motifs and some chain links fixed to a riband in the form of bow(blue with red-white-red edges) on the left shoulder by women. However the Queen's sister Princess Margaret in later life wore her chain around the collar, as male recipients do.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations diverses
  • Étiquette et protocole (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 13 2007-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Group Dynamics
  • Leadership Techniques (Meetings)
DEF

There are questions that have been left floating out there that we cannot quite put our finger on because they have not been outlined or answered by the government at this point.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dynamique des groupes
  • Techniques d'animation des réunions
DEF

Ce sont là des questions qu'on a laissé flotter, que nous ne pouvons vraiment saisir, parce que le gouvernement, à ce jour, ne les a pas exposées ou n'y a pas répondu.

Spanish

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Record 14 2005-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Social Movements
OBS

Weatherman, also known as the Weather Underground Organization and, colloquially, sometimes ’the Weathermen’, were a U. S. Radical Left organization consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society. Its members referred to themselves as a "revolutionary organization of communist women and men, "and carried out guerilla actions, often characterized as terrorist, to achieve the revolutionary overthrow of the government of the United States. The group collapsed shortly after the U. S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975, which saw the general demise of the New Left, of which Weatherman had been a part.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Mouvements sociaux

Spanish

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Record 15 2001-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Planning
  • Production (Economics)
DEF

A graphic representation of the various output combinations of two commodities which can be produced from a given quantity of resources.

CONT

Recall Colin Clark's alleged law that no government can tax and spend more than 25 per cent of the national income without creating disaster. If there were an absolute real limit, the transformation curves would have a corner at the limit moving off horizontally to the left of it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification économique
  • Production (Économie)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Planificación económica
  • Producción (Economía)
DEF

Expresión gráfica de cómo un determinado producto X puede de hecho transformarse en otro producto Y, reduciendo la producción de X y transfiriendo los recursos así ahorrados a la producción de Y.

OBS

Ello implica la consideración de que los recursos de una economía son fijos y susceptibles de combinaciones alternativas de X y de Y.

OBS

Las curvas de transformación son especialmente útiles en la teoría económica, a efectos de economía del bienestar y comercio internacional.

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Record 16 1997-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

City, capital of Minya government, Upper Egypt, on left bank of the Nile.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

en arabe Minya ou Minîeh-ebn-Khasib ou Minya ibn al-Khasib, ville d'Égypte, en Haute-Egypte, chef-lieu de province du mâme nom, sur la rive ouest du Nil.

Key term(s)
  • Minya
  • Minîeh-ebn-Khasib
  • Minya ibn al-Khasib

Spanish

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Record 17 1994-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Administration
DEF

The immediate suspension of mandatory supervision for inmates considered dangerous.

OBS

The Corrections and Conditional Release Act now allows the detention of dangerous offenders.

CONT

At issue is a clause in 1986 legislation that permits authorities to deny the automatic release that most convicts earn after serving two-thirds of their sentences. Prison officials used a practice known as gating-intercepting convicts as they left the prison gate and returning them to serve their full sentences-if they were considered especially dangerous. After the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the practice was illegal, the government amended the law to permit such detention by other means. But the vague definition written into the law allowed continued gating only if the prisoner was judged to be both a danger to society and to have caused his victim severe harm.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration pénitentiaire
DEF

Suspension immédiate de la liberté surveillée pour les détenus considérés comme dangereux.

OBS

La Loi sur le système correctionnel et la mise en liberté sous condition prévoit maintenant le maintien en incarcération pour ces cas.

Spanish

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Record 18 1986-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
  • Constitutional Law
CONT

... a government of one state may recognize the government of another as de jure government, that is one that was established according to the laws(constitution) of that state, but it also may grant such recognition for the purpose of boosting the prestige of that government, even though that government was not established according to existing laws. In any case, recognition of one government or state by another is a matter left strictly to the discretion of the recognizing state.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
  • Droit constitutionnel
DEF

Expression qui, suivant le cas, se réfère : a) à un critère d'ordre interne quand elle désigne un Gouvernement constitué conformément à la constitution de l'État, ce qui l'oppose à un Gouvernement de facto, insurrectionnel avec lequel il est en lutte; b) à un critère d'ordre international quand elle désigne un Gouvernement que, malgré son origine illégale, un État reconnaît comme intégré dans la légalité et, à ce titre, pleinement qualifié pour représenter l'État à la tête duquel il s'est place.

Spanish

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Record 19 1984-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Records Management (Management)
DEF

... Program [involving] many activities respecting the personnel files of former public servants who for various reasons have left the employ of the federal government.... These activities are :(a) Transfer of the files to RMB [Records Management Branch] ;(b) Integration of the files;(c) Documentation and storage of the files; and(d) Systematic disposal, including selection for permanent retention of files of historical value.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des documents (Gestion)
CONT

La DGD [Direction de la Gestion des documents] exploite depuis 1957, un "Programme des dossiers de personnel civil" (...) Plusieurs activités de ce programme se rapportent aux dossiers d'anciens fonctionnaires fédéraux. (...) Ce sont entre autres: (a) Le transfert des dossiers à la DGD; (b) L'intégration des dossiers; (c) La rédaction des instruments de recherche et la conservation des dossiers; (d) Le tri systématique et la mise de côté des dossiers présentant un intérêt historique en vue de les conserver indéfiniment.

Spanish

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Record 20 1981-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Housing
OBS

Many institutions and government agencies find that form type appraisal reports best meet their requirements.(...) The form report usually includes a hard paper inspection card on which are printed all the different items which could be found under the various categories of neighborhood data, types of construction, interior details including special fixtures, with adequate space left for comments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Habitation et logement (Urbanisme)
OBS

Le formulaire (...) répond surtout aux besoins des institutions financières. Il a l'avantage, pour une telle entreprise, de permettre d'uniformiser les dossiers, ce qui facilite la consultation. On repère ainsi plus facilement des renseignements qui y sont classés en catégories (...) De plus, l'évaluateur peut écrire ses commentaires et consigner ses observations dans des espaces prévus à cette fin.

Spanish

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