“Mr. Speaker, these are important issues for our country and to the member’s area. In Bill C-39, we see an increase in the bureaucracy in section 2. We see that the Liberals want more discretionary powers given to ministers, and so powers going from the legislative branch to the executive and even some very wide-reaching powers that we agreed to give them on a temporary basis. If members remember, on Bill C-5, the Liberals, at the time when they were accused of grabbing too much power, said, “Oh, we’ll put in a sunset clause for five years.” Well, in Bill C-39, they are removing that and saying that they will only use those large-scale powers to exempt projects from huge, important laws. The only limit now would be the dissolution of Parliament or prorogation of Parliament. Does the member think that the Liberals are being a little too cute by saying, “On those powers, we put in a sunset clause”, and now they are basically taking all that power back again and more?”
Statement grade
C+
The average of Signal, Relevance, Respect and Clarity is 68. The grade is held to 66, 30 above Signal.
66 / 100, held down by Signal
A score under 50 is red. Choose a measurement to see where it lost points and why; choose it again to clear.
Thanks 35%Claims 39%Positioning 26%
This view breaks the statement into its steps and names what each one does.
Mr. Speaker, Thanks · 29 wordsI thank the member for all the work he has been doing on the bill before us and also on Bill C-5 when we worked together on that legislation.1ThanksClaims · 32 wordsThe member has made the exact point about the fact that, right now, everything is as uncertain as ever for private sector proponents, for developers of major infrastructure and for resource development.Unearned certaintyPositioning · 21 wordsI think the member has, very importantly, pointed out what is actually the agenda of the Liberals, and it is central—Positioning
