“Mr. Speaker, I am grateful the minister is here. He and I worked at the same time in Canadian media, and I have a good relationship with him. However, his government’s record on civil liberties and freedom of expression could not be worse. He talks about the horrors that have been inflicted upon the Jewish community, in particular, and I share those concerns. I have been sounding the alarm about those concerns when there has been a failure to act in enforcing existing laws. It is illegal to incite genocide. It is illegal to obstruct someone from entering a house of worship. It is illegal to threaten violence and harm. If existing laws are not being enforced, why does the minister think these ones will be?”
Statement grade
C
The average of Signal, Relevance, Respect and Clarity is 73. The grade is held to 61, 30 above Relevance.
61 / 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.
Thanks 33%Reasoning 42%Claims 25%
This view breaks the statement into its steps and names what each one does.
Mr. Speaker, Thanks · 31 wordsit is always good to hear from my hon. friend in the opposition, who I know has spent a lot of time thinking about the line between security and civil liberties, ThanksReasoning · 21 wordsand the very reason for this chamber is so we can have robust debates about finding exactly where that line is.Off pointClaims · 23 wordsSadly, for communities today, for Jews in synagogues, for Muslims in mosques, for the 2SLGBTQ community, too often they are not being protected.Reasoning · 18 wordsWe need new laws to do that, laws that are well crafted to protect liberties and protect people.Partly on point
