“Mr. Speaker, in one sense, I am encouraged that the Bloc members are going to be supporting the legislation, recognizing that we do need to take cases of sexual assaults and abuse out of the military system and put them into the civilian justice system. That is encouraging. I hope to address the concerns of the member and of the previous speaker in my comments shortly. I would reinforce that the bill would be based on the Arbour report and its findings. She came up with a number of recommendations. Personally, I am very comfortable with those recommendations and hope to be able to substantiate it. It is more of a comment than a question, in case the member has anything else she would like to add.”
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The average of Signal, Relevance, Respect and Clarity is 88. The grade is held to 81, 30 above Signal.
81 / 100, held down by Signal
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Mr. Speaker, Thanks · 5 wordsI appreciate my colleague’s commentary.ThanksPositioning · 49 wordsI think he realizes that the Bloc Québécois truly cares about helping to improve bills.We always say that if a thing is good for Quebec and good for Canada, so much the better.We always approach bills this way, and we take our work on parliamentary committees seriously.PositioningPromise · 11 wordsAs we have said, we are going to support this bill, Claims · 37 wordsbut what we had proposed was not a rejection of Justice Arbour’s recommendations, quite the contrary.1I think that the member for Berthier—Maskinongé and I said as much in our two speeches.2We agree with the recommendations, Reasoning · 17 wordsbut we think that certain amendments could have improved the bill to provide better support to victims.Claims · 5 wordsUnfortunately, the government decided otherwise.
