“Madam Speaker, in another aspect of the member’s speech, he downplayed the importance of the national school food program. I was first elected in 1988 when Sharon Carstairs was the leader of the Liberal Party in Manitoba. She advocated that a child cannot learn on an empty stomach. For generations, there have been many children in society who have not been able to learn on a full stomach or who have not had food in their tummy during the school day. The need is very real. It is there. It has been there for decades. However, the Conservatives are saying that they do not care about that aspect of education, that those children do not deserve to have food in their tummy when it comes to education. To try to give the false impression that this issue has only been generated in the last 10 or 15 years is just wrong. Will the member admit he is wrong and maybe reverse the Conservative policy?”
Statement grade
B
The average of Signal, Relevance, Respect and Clarity is 87. The grade is held to 77, 30 above Signal.
77 / 100, held down by Signal
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Positioning 42%Claims 53%Procedure 5%
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Madam Speaker, Positioning · 12 wordshere comes the lie of the left that we do not care.PositioningClaims · 31 wordsThere were many school food programs across Regina and across the country, some brought in by Mosaic and private companies that helped do this.1There was Chili for Children in Regina.2Procedure · 6 wordsI could go on and on.ProcedurePositioning · 17 wordsThe one thing the Liberals have never realized is that there were people doing this good work.PositioningClaims · 13 wordsThere were private companies that stepped up to make sure kids were fed, Positioning · 21 wordsbut the Liberals wanted to come in on their white horses and say, “No, the government can look after kids better.”PositioningClaims · 25 wordsParents wanted to feed their own kids, and when that could not happen, there were private companies doing it.The Liberal government took that away, Positioning · 5 wordsand it should be ashamed.Positioning
