“Mr. Speaker, I commend my colleague from Elgin—St. Thomas—London South on his speech. In the speech that he gave here in the House, the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons said, “We are proposing to adjust committee membership proportionally to reflect the party standings in the House. It is as simple as that. There are no games, no untoward tactics and no strategies here.” He also said, “My fear is that some members across the aisle are more interested in scoring political points and creating divisions for their own partisan gain, at a time when we really need to co-operate and collaborate in good faith to deliver on issues of critical importance for our country.” He then went on to say, “Collaboration is the approach to politics that Canadians...want in this place for all elected representatives. They do not want partisan gamesmanship.” Does my colleague think that is what the Liberals are doing?”
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The average of Signal, Relevance, Respect and Clarity is 86. The grade is held to 74, 30 above Signal.
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Mr. Speaker, Thanks · 24 wordsmy colleague is right.I think that my colleagues from the Bloc Québécois asked some valid questions about the formula the Liberals are using, ThanksProcedure · 16 wordsbut I also think that it is important to look at how this majority came about.ProcedureClaims · 36 wordsWe have never seen a government use defections as a tactic to secure a majority that Canadians did not elect.1Canadians do not want the Liberals to have complete control over the parliamentary agenda in committee.
