“Madam Speaker, I would like to extend greetings to my colleague. We work very well together on the Standing Committee on Finance. As he said, he spent 20 years in banking. I would like to know whether he and his fellow optimists believe that spending $34 billion on a pipeline for the dirtiest oil in the world and funding a new pipeline forms part of what he referred to in his comments as Canada’s strategy to become a clean energy superpower. I would like to know whether the optimists consider that to be clean.”
Statement grade
B+
The average of Signal, Relevance, Respect and Clarity is 88. The grade is held to 84, 30 above Signal.
84 / 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.
This view breaks the statement into its steps and names what each one does.
Madam Speaker, Greeting · 12 wordsI enjoy working with my colleague on the Standing Committee on Finance.1GreetingAside · 21 wordsI also know that he loves generating sound bites and I think what he just said will make a great one.AsideAnecdote · 19 wordsI am definitely a member of the optimists’ club, and I also believe in saying “and” instead of “or”.AnecdoteReasoning · 35 wordsI believe that, in order to build a strong economy, we should not simply decide whether to do this thing or that thing.We must believe in saying “and”, that is, we need to build.Claims · 37 wordsWe need to move forward, and Canadians want us to say “and”, not “or.”Canadians do not want to see us choose between a project in the west or a project in the east.They want both.Promise · 42 wordsThat is the new strategy.In other words, we are going to grow our investments and build our projects so we can get Canada through these challenging global times by diversifying our economy, helping our businesses do things differently and doubling exports.Procedure · 6 wordsThat is what we are doing.ProcedurePositioning · 10 wordsWe are working with the mindset of “and”, not “or”.Positioning
