“Mr. Speaker, for generations, family farms have fed Canadians and the world. For generations, those farms have been passed from one family member to the next. The Liberals should not be making that harder, but that is where we are. If a farm is passed to a child, it is tax-deferred. If a farm is passed to another family member, it is fully taxed. The result is that over 57,000 farms have been lost in the last 20 years. That hurts farming families in my community, like Steve Cooper in Uxbridge, who wants to pass his farm to his nephew, but he cannot. Will the Minister of Finance fix the Income Tax Act and make it easier for families to pass on farms to the next generation?”
Statement grade
B
The average of Signal, Relevance, Respect and Clarity.
Average 78 / 100
A score under 50 is red. Choose a measurement to see where it lost points and why; choose it again to clear.
Reasoning 13%Positioning 17%Claims 48%Promise 22%
This view breaks the statement into its steps and names what each one does.
Mr. Speaker, Reasoning · 6 wordsit is important for generational farming, Positioning · 8 wordsand we are fully well aware of it.PositioningClaims · 22 wordsIt is something that, through the national policy framework with stakeholders across the country, has been brought up a couple of times.1Partly on pointPromise · 10 wordsI will have further discussions with the Minister of Finance.Vague promise
