Replying to Xavier Barsalou-Duval (Bloc Québécois)
“Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on her speech. At times, we do agree with the Conservatives. When that happens, perhaps the government should listen. The government, as part of its Canada Strong fund—which it likes to describe as a sovereign wealth fund—has determined that project selection would be carried out by the Major Projects Office and that these projects would first be chosen by the Prime Minister’s Office. Does my colleague find it reassuring that a supposedly independent fund will ultimately have to select its investments from the Prime Minister’s choices?”
Statement grade
B+
The average of Signal, Relevance, Respect and Clarity is 88. The grade is held to 80, 30 above Signal.
80 / 100, held down by Signal
A score under 50 is red. Choose a measurement to see where it lost points and why; choose it again to clear.
Aside 13%Claims 9%Positioning 32%Reasoning 46%
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Mr. Speaker, Aside · 14 wordsit is always an interesting day here when we agree with the Bloc Québécois.AsideClaims · 10 wordsThis government has now put forward a 13th new bureaucracy.1Positioning · 16 wordsAll of these bureaucracies have one thing in common: They are there to distort the market.PositioningReasoning · 51 wordsPrivate companies chose not to invest in something, so the government comes and backfills that capital, which already exists in this country, by choosing the projects that go forward.That is the opposite of how a free market works.It is the opposite of how this country was built throughout generations.Positioning · 19 wordsI cannot understand why the Liberal government always chooses the wrong path when it comes to building Canada’s future.Positioning
