“Mr. Speaker, tonight we are debating Bill C‑16, tabled late last year. What still impresses me, however, is the timeline. For months, if not years, the Standing Committee on the Status of Women has been calling for progress on a number of issues: court delays, the criminalization of coercive control and, as the Bloc Québécois and other stakeholders have also urged, the issue of intimate AI-generated images and deepfakes. People have been calling for all that for weeks, months and years. It took a press conference by the Standing Committee on the Status of Women where we displayed non-partisanship, where members from all political parties sitting on that committee called on the government to criminalize coercive control and take action on violence against women. It is an important first step, but why did it take so long?”
Statement grade
B
The average of Signal, Relevance, Respect and Clarity is 80. The grade is held to 77, 30 above Relevance.
77 / 100, held down by Relevance
A score under 50 is red. Choose a measurement to see where it lost points and why; choose it again to clear.
Claims 76%Procedure 5%Positioning 18%
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 52 wordsI think we can both agree that this bill addresses the issues that have been brought forward and does so in a really thoughtful way, in consultation with survivors and groups that work with survivors and victims.Partly on pointAlthough I agree with the member that this is long overdue, we are here now.Procedure · 4 wordsWe have an opportunity, ProcedurePositioning · 14 wordsbut the Conservatives are standing in the way of making sure this bill passes.PositioningOff pointClaims · 6 wordsWe can prevent deaths and crime.Partly on point
