“Madam Speaker, it seems we are in violent agreement in this House about the need to extend this excise tax, so I would like to use the member’s speech as a launching-off point for a related conversation about affordability. He brought up the crack spread. Refining capacity globally is, of course, under severe stress. The Strait of Hormuz could open tomorrow, and I suspect because of refining challenges, that crack spread would grow, even, and so we must either increase refined supply or reduce demand to meaningfully address this in the long term. Obviously, more refined capacity will take time. I was wondering if the member opposite had views or proposals on policies that could either increase supply or reduce demand for refined products.”
Statement grade
B
The average of Signal, Relevance, Reasoning, Respect and Clarity is 88. The grade is held to 77, 30 above Relevance. Reasoning rests on 2 conclusions, too few to hold the grade down.
77 / 100, held down by Relevance
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Reasoning 48%Claims 52%
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Madam Speaker, Reasoning · 17 wordsthere is a much simpler answer to that, and that is to reduce the taxes on diesel.Claims · 33 wordsAs the Conservatives have suggested, eliminate the GST on diesel, eliminate the clean fuel standard that is costing money, even according to the PBO and Environment Canada, 1and eliminate the industrial carbon tax.Reasoning · 13 wordsThat would be the fastest thing to help reduce the price of diesel.Partly on point
