“Mr. Speaker, I listened carefully to my colleague’s speech, which could be summed up quickly in one phrase: status quo. What is being sought here is the status quo or, as the saying goes, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. My colleague talked about a crisis. She said it was the crisis that brought this to light. Yes, the crisis may have highlighted the inefficiencies of the construction sector in Canada. Just building has become difficult. Now we want to build faster because, when it comes to predictability in contracts, projects that take eight to 10 years to get off the ground always end up failing. I would perhaps invite my colleague to read an interesting book by Ezra Klein called Abundance, which highlights this point. The question I would like to ask my colleague is this: What would she change? What specific measures would she include in a bill to speed up projects?”
Statement grade
B–
The average of Signal, Relevance, Respect and Clarity is 86. The grade is held to 73, 30 above Relevance.
73 / 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.
Reasoning 42%Claims 50%The question 9%
This view breaks the statement into its steps and names what each one does.
Mr. Speaker, Reasoning · 30 wordsI do not claim to be able to write a 249-page bill on my own, 1but I am willing to acknowledge that there are some good points in the bill.Claims · 21 wordsFor example, the unions have acknowledged that there are certain positive measures, such as bargaining unit protection when contractors are replaced.2Reasoning · 41 wordsThere are some small positive aspects to the bill, but overall, it is a tough pill to swallow.Again, we are not opposed to the economy performing well or to accelerating certain projects.However, this cannot be done at any cost, Claims · 64 wordsand certainly not by trimming all environmental protections, especially when we know from a report by the Institut de recherche en économie contemporaine that groceries are 8.4% more expensive due to climate change, that insurance costs are much higher, that Canada is now paying $2 billion for insurance in disaster-stricken areas, 34and that this figure is expected to reach $15 billion in the future.5The question · 15 wordsExactly whose interest are the Liberals referring to when they talk about the national interest?Partly on point
