“Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to my colleague’s speech, and I really appreciated the insights being provided. I think this is important legislation, and I personally believe the federal government has an important role to play when it comes to housing. In Waterloo, constituents have really appreciated the federal government stepping up and returning to the housing scene and having different levels of government working together. We have received some substantial investments from the federal government when it comes to increasing the affordable housing supply, a supply that will remain in our community for generations to come, with some of the most historic kinds of projects that we have not been able to dabble in before. I would like to hear the member’s thoughts as to why the Conservatives are taking the approach that the federal government does not have a role to play. Why are they so concerned that the federal government will help Canadians and give them a hand? In the region of Waterloo, I have been asked by constituents about Conservative members voting against the bill, our legislation and our budget, yet when it comes to housing projects, the Conservatives offer these hollow letters of support for those projects. We know that in the past Conservative members were reprimanded for asking the minister of housing for support for their communities. Clearly, there are Conservative members who want to see the federal government support housing initiatives in their communities. I would like the member to build upon some of those comments. It is unfortunate that this is not the chorus that the whole Conservative Party is singing, but I am confident there are some Conservative members who are confident that the federal government has a role to play. What are the member’s thoughts?”
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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, Procedure · 12 wordsI guess I would break it down into a couple of things.ProcedurePositioning · 21 wordsOne is the House leadership of the Conservative Party today, which, I would suggest, very much has that get-out-of-the-way, far-right attitude.PositioningClaims · 111 wordsThat is the group that was very critical of the more progressive Conservatives within the caucus.They are much smaller in number but are the ones who really see the value and are the ones who were actually writing letters to the government saying that they supported the project and wanted it.1They were reprimanded.2They were told to stop writing support letters for their community.This came from the Conservative House leadership team, or the leadership team as a whole, and many of the members who, I would suggest, are on the far-right scale of thinking that the federal government has absolutely no role to play in regard to housing.Procedure · 14 wordsContrast that with the beginning of the question that my friend from Waterloo posed.ProcedureClaims · 11 wordsShe highlighted how important housing is to the city of Waterloo, Thanks · 31 wordsand she is a consistent advocate for Waterloo, not only on housing but on a wide spectrum of issues.She is advocating for Waterloo and sees the value of working collaboratively, ThanksPositioning · 28 wordsand that is exactly what the federal government is doing, because we understand that the end goal is to increase Canada’s housing stock, especially on the affordability front.Positioning
