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Kelly McCauley

Conservative on Building Canada Strong Act 2026-10-06

1386 words · 77 sentences · 96 clauses

Statement grade

B+

Average 81 / 100

A score under 50 is red. Choose a measurement to see where it lost points and why; choose it again to clear.

Positioning 26%Claims 61%Aside 1%Procedure 6%Reasoning 2%The ask 4%

This view breaks the statement into its steps and names what each one does.

Mr. Speaker, Positioning · 13 wordsI am very pleased to rise on Bill C-39, another cynical Liberal bill.Positioning Claims · 129 wordsDo members remember years back when the Liberal government campaigned to end all government practice of using omnibus bills to reduce scrutiny of legislative measures? This was part of their campaign for a “real change” plan for restoring democracy.¹ What do we have here? We have another massive omnibus bill, one of many introduced by a Liberal government that promised to do away with omnibus bills. It is the same Liberal government that promised to increase transparency, and it has done the opposite. It is the same Liberal government that said there would be more accountability for its legislation, yet we have the opposite. We have the same Liberal government creating side departments to circumvent Parliament and accountability, such as the Defence Investment Agency, which is called the DIA.Off point Aside · 13 wordsIt is actually more like the DOA because it is still being debated.Aside Claims · 42 wordsIt was created as part of the budget implementation act, ²but before it has even been officially created, the Liberals are already killing it off and trying to turn it into a Crown corporation, ³which would allow even less scrutiny and accountability.Off point Procedure · 3 wordsHowever, I digress.Procedure Claims · 14 wordsAs I mentioned, here we go again with another omnibus bill from the Liberals. Positioning · 26 wordsI am sure when they were putting this bill together, the Liberal PMO and other advisers were chortling about what a great wedge bill this is, PositioningPartly on pointClaims · 41 wordsbecause while it has legislation in it to increase economic growth, at the same time, there is a bit of a poison pill around labour so that if the Conservatives oppose the bill, they can say the Conservatives are opposing growth. Positioning · 19 wordsIf we support the bill, they will turn around and say the Conservatives are stabbing labour in the back.Positioning Claims · 12 wordsIt is the same thing they are doing to my NDP colleagues. Positioning · 63 wordsIf the NDP does not support it, we know full well it is going to be a Liberal talking point to say the NDP is antidevelopment.Unearned certainty If the NDP does support it, we know full well they will be saying the NDP supported all of their back-to-work legislation.Unearned certainty It is a cynical wedge bill that could only be put forward by the government.PositioningPartly on point Procedure · 17 wordsIt is unfortunate, but here we have it. Why, I have to ask, another piece of legislation?Procedure Claims · 85 wordsOver a year ago in this House, the Conservatives supported the Liberals in passing Bill C-5 and gave unprecedented powers to the government to push through projects at speeds we have never seen before, of course.⁴ What happened? Nothing. Nothing has been done or approved, except that the Major Projects Office and the DIA were created, ⁵but they have not moved at the speed of anything. The finance minister, when Bill C-5 was introduced, stated it was aimed at “accelerating transformative projects of national interest”.⁶ Procedure · 58 wordsWhere have we heard that? We have heard a lot lately about needing Bill C-39 to push through items of national interest. The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources said that Bill C-5 would remove barriers, leverage resources and help Canada become an energy superpower.⁷ That was for Bill C-5, so why is it repeated for Bill C-39?Procedure Claims · 38 wordsIn this House, we gave the Liberals unprecedented powers to get projects built, to build the economy, to perhaps get a pipeline built, to develop the energy industry and to develop the mining industry, and nothing was done. Positioning · 78 wordsThey brought in the Major Projects Office to sidestep their own regulations. The question I have is, why does the government not just fix its broken regulatory regime? Why do we have all these bills and regulations on the books? Why do the Liberals have to create legislation such as Bill C-5 to get around their own bad laws and regulations, Bill C-39 to do the same thing and the Major Projects Office to do the same thing?Positioning Claims · 18 wordsWith defence procurement, there is the DIA, which they are now killing off to create a Crown corporation.Off point Positioning · 28 wordsWhy do we need cabinet or bureaucrats deciding what is deemed worthy of special treatment? That is what this is. It is the government picking winners and losers.Positioning Claims · 98 wordsIt is no different from what the Liberals did a couple of years ago with piling taxpayers’ money into EV battery projects around the country for billions and billions of dollars.⁸Partly on point We saw it with Brampton. The Liberals gave Stellantis hundreds of millions of dollars.⁹ When we tried to investigate the money given to it, the deputy minister said that it was Stellantis that was refusing to release the documents about what happened with the money for Brampton.¹⁰ Stellantis came forward and said that this was not true, gave the documents and said the deputy minister was lying.Off point Positioning · 47 wordsAgain, it goes back to the question of why the government is picking winners and losers. Why not clear up the regulatory regime, the 300,000 some-odd regulations that are on the books, ¹¹so that private capital can decide what is a winner and what is a loser?Positioning Claims · 47 wordsHow is it that we have a pipeline to the Lower Mainland, for which taxpayers are going to pay the bill of probably $50 billion, ¹²and $10 billion, give or take, to dredge up Roberts Bank, with more public money probably going into bailing out carbon capture?¹³ Positioning · 32 wordsHow is that in the public interest, with all the public money going into it, when we could just change our rules and allow the private sector to get that work done, PositioningClaims · 71 wordsas with northern gateway, originally proposed to a deepwater port, which did not need taxpayers’ money to dredge out? We did not need taxpayers’ money to build the pipeline. I support pipelines. We certainly need them. We saw today the gap between West Texas Intermediate and WCS, which is $25 a barrel because of the constrictions of exports caused by the government killing off northern gateway and killing off energy east.¹⁴ Positioning · 36 wordsHow is it in the public interest to spend billions and billions to do the pipeline when private capital could be doing it? Why not create a regulatory environment that is welcoming to capital and investment?Positioning Claims · 43 wordsThe International Energy Agency calls the current energy crisis “the largest supply disruption in history”.¹⁵ Canada has the fourth-largest oil reserves.¹⁶ We are the only one in the top four that is a democracy, the only one that follows the rule of law. Reasoning · 22 wordsWe would think people would be begging to develop our oil and gas and begging to get pipelines built to get oil. Procedure · 1 wordsInstead, ProcedureClaims · 16 wordsbecause of the Liberals and the regulatory regime, we have to have public money doing it. Positioning · 14 wordsWhy is the government doing this instead of just getting out of the way?Positioning Claims · 129 wordsAccording to a recent study, Canada has fallen from ninth to 18th on economic freedom.¹⁷ The factors in deciding this ranking include sound money, size of government and regulations. Under “Size of Government”, a thing that reads into our drop from ninth to 18th on freedom, is “Government consumption without interest payments”, which is very high under the government. “Government consumption with interest payments” is, again, very high. As for “Top marginal income tax rate and the threshold at which it applies”, the first thing the government did upon getting elected in 2015 was jack up the top marginal tax rate, followed by Premier Eby, it seems, right now.¹⁸ On “State ownership of assets”, having too much state ownership of assets causes us to drop lower in the ranking.Partly on point Procedure · 4 wordsWhat are we seeing?Procedure Claims · 65 wordsThe government is going to be owning Pacific link on top of TransCanada because the Liberals have created a regulatory environment where no one is investing in Canada. Under “Sound Money” is “Money growth”. We saw the government printing hundreds of billions of dollars, with inflation.¹⁹ Under “Regulation” is “Regulatory burden”, which adds to our low ranking. There is “Bureaucracy costs” and “Impartial public administration”.Partly on point Procedure · 5 wordsIt goes on and on.Procedure The ask · 59 wordsThe government needs to get out of the way of private capital. It needs to get out of the way of business. It needs to reduce the regulatory burden. It needs to stop coming forward with all this legislation that is supposed to do so much but does nothing. The government just needs to get out of the way.

At a glance

Lost points for
Echo ×8“Canada has the fourth-largest oil reserves in the world.” Said 8 times by 7 members.Every time it was said

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What the tags mean

Signal · 60

33 of 66 deductions are Signal

Signal checks whether every part makes a point, gives a reason, or asks for action. A low score means the speaker filled time with fluff, pleasantries, or attacks.

Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “I am very pleased to rise on Bill C-39, another cynical Liberal bill.”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
A remark off to the side of the point.What the tags mean “It is actually more like the DOA because it is still being debated.”An aside: no claim, reason or ask.
Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business.What the tags mean “However, I digress.”Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “I am sure when they were putting this bill together, the Liberal PMO and other advisers were chortling about what a great wedge bill this is,”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “If we support the bill, they will turn around and say the Conservatives are stabbing labour in the back.”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “If the NDP does not support it, we know full well it is going to be a Liberal talking point to say the NDP is antidevelopment.”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “If the NDP does support it, we know full well they will be saying the NDP supported all of their back-to-work legislation.”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “It is a cynical wedge bill that could only be put forward by the government.”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business.What the tags mean “It is unfortunate,”Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business.What the tags mean “but here we have it.”Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business.What the tags mean “Why, I have to ask, another piece of legislation?”Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business.What the tags mean “Where have we heard that?”Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business.What the tags mean “We have heard a lot lately about needing Bill C-39 to push through items of national interest.”Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business.What the tags mean “The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources said that Bill C-5 would remove barriers, leverage resources and help Canada become an energy superpower.”Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business.What the tags mean “That was for Bill C-5,”Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business.What the tags mean “so why is it repeated for Bill C-39?”Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “They brought in the Major Projects Office to sidestep their own regulations.”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “The question I have is, why does the government not just fix its broken regulatory regime?”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “Why do we have all these bills and regulations on the books?”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “Why do the Liberals have to create legislation such as Bill C-5 to get around their own bad laws and regulations, Bill C-39 to do the same thing and the Major Projects Office to do the same thing?”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “Why do we need cabinet or bureaucrats deciding what is deemed worthy of special treatment?”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “That is what this is.”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “It is the government picking winners and losers.”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “Again, it goes back to the question of why the government is picking winners and losers.”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “Why not clear up the regulatory regime, the 300,000 some-odd regulations that are on the books,”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “so that private capital can decide what is a winner and what is a loser?”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “How is that in the public interest, with all the public money going into it, when we could just change our rules and allow the private sector to get that work done,”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “How is it in the public interest to spend billions and billions to do the pipeline when private capital could be doing it?”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “Why not create a regulatory environment that is welcoming to capital and investment?”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business.What the tags mean “Instead,”Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.What the tags mean “Why is the government doing this instead of just getting out of the way?”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.
Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business.What the tags mean “What are we seeing?”Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.
Throat-clearing: announcing what you are about to say, or the House’s routine business.What the tags mean “It goes on and on.”Procedure or throat-clearing: no claim, reason or ask.

Relevance · 69

31 of 66 deductions are Relevance

Relevance checks whether the speaker stays on topic and answers the question asked. A low score means the speaker dodged the issue. Measured against the bill under debate.

Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate.What the tags mean “We have the same Liberal government creating side departments to circumvent Parliament and accountability, such as the Defence Investment Agency,”About the Defence Investment Agency, not Bill C-39.
Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate.What the tags mean “which is called the DIA.”About the Defence Investment Agency’s name, not Bill C-39.
Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate.What the tags mean “It was created as part of the budget implementation act,”About the Defence Investment Agency’s origins, not Bill C-39.
Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate.What the tags mean “but before it has even been officially created, the Liberals are already killing it off and trying to turn it into a Crown corporation,”About the Defence Investment Agency’s fate, not Bill C-39.
Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate.What the tags mean “which would allow even less scrutiny and accountability.”About the Defence Investment Agency’s accountability, not Bill C-39.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “I am sure when they were putting this bill together, the Liberal PMO and other advisers were chortling about what a great wedge bill this is,”About the government’s political strategy in drafting the bill rather than what the bill does.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “If we support the bill, they will turn around and say the Conservatives are stabbing labour in the back.”About anticipated political attacks on the Conservatives rather than the bill’s provisions.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “It is the same thing they are doing to my NDP colleagues.”About how the bill is being used against the NDP rather than its contents.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “If the NDP does not support it, we know full well it is going to be a Liberal talking point to say the NDP is antidevelopment.”About anticipated talking points on the NDP’s stance, not the bill itself.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “If the NDP does support it, we know full well they will be saying the NDP supported all of their back-to-work legislation.”About anticipated talking points on the NDP’s stance, not the bill itself.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “It is a cynical wedge bill that could only be put forward by the government.”Restates the political-strategy characterization without addressing the bill’s measures.
Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate.What the tags mean “With defence procurement, there is the DIA,”About defence procurement and the DIA, not Bill C-39.
Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate.What the tags mean “which they are now killing off to create a Crown corporation.”About the DIA’s conversion to a Crown corporation, not Bill C-39.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “It is no different from what the Liberals did a couple of years ago with piling taxpayers’ money into EV battery projects around the country for billions and billions of dollars.”About past EV battery subsidies, another instance of picking winners but not this bill.
Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate.What the tags mean “We saw it with Brampton.”About the Stellantis Brampton funding dispute, not Bill C-39.
Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate.What the tags mean “The Liberals gave Stellantis hundreds of millions of dollars.”About the Stellantis Brampton funding dispute, not Bill C-39.
Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate.What the tags mean “When we tried to investigate the money given to it, the deputy minister said that it was Stellantis that was refusing to release the documents about what happened with the money for Brampton.”About the dispute over releasing Stellantis documents, not Bill C-39.
Talking about something other than the matter at hand: the question asked, or the bill, motion or speech under debate.What the tags mean “Stellantis came forward and said that this was not true, gave the documents and said the deputy minister was lying.”About the Stellantis dispute over the deputy minister’s account, not Bill C-39.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “According to a recent study, Canada has fallen from ninth to 18th on economic freedom.”About Canada’s ranking on an economic freedom index, touching the bill’s subject only in passing.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “The factors in deciding this ranking include sound money, size of government and regulations.”About the index’s methodology, not Bill C-39.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “Under “Size of Government”, a thing that reads into our drop from ninth to 18th on freedom, is “Government consumption without interest payments”,”About government consumption figures in the index, not Bill C-39.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “which is very high under the government.”About government consumption figures in the index, not Bill C-39.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean ““Government consumption with interest payments” is, again, very high.”About government consumption figures in the index, not Bill C-39.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “As for “Top marginal income tax rate and the threshold at which it applies”, the first thing the government did upon getting elected in 2015 was jack up the top marginal tax rate, followed by Premier Eby, it seems, right now.”About past tax rate changes, not Bill C-39.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “On “State ownership of assets”, having too much state ownership of assets causes us to drop lower in the ranking.”About the index’s state-ownership factor, not Bill C-39.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “The government is going to be owning Pacific link on top of TransCanada because the Liberals have created a regulatory environment where no one is investing in Canada.”About government ownership of pipelines, touching the bill’s subject only in passing.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “Under “Sound Money” is “Money growth”.”About the index’s sound money factor, not Bill C-39.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “We saw the government printing hundreds of billions of dollars, with inflation.”About past money printing and inflation, not Bill C-39.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “Under “Regulation” is “Regulatory burden”,”About the index’s regulatory burden factor, not Bill C-39.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “which adds to our low ranking.”About the index’s regulatory burden factor, not Bill C-39.
Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.What the tags mean “There is “Bureaucracy costs” and “Impartial public administration”.”About the index’s remaining factors, not Bill C-39.

Respect · 100

0 of 66 deductions are Respect

Respect checks whether the speaker argued with people’s positions and records rather than attacking the people: insults, mockery, or bad motives assigned to them. Criticism of what someone did, however strong, is not marked.

Nothing lost points.

Clarity · 95

2 of 66 deductions are Clarity

Clarity checks for plain speaking, clear ownership of actions, and honest limits on certainty. A low score means vague promises or evasive language.

Something stated as certain with nothing to back it.What the tags mean “we know full well”The phrase asserts certain knowledge of future Liberal talking points with no source offered.
Something stated as certain with nothing to back it.What the tags mean “we know full well”The phrase asserts certain knowledge of what others will say without any supporting source.

Echo · 1 repeated line

Words members of Parliament keep repeating, found by the same rule for every member. No score depends on it.

“Canada has the fourth-largest oil reserves in the world.”Said 8 times by 7 members.Every time it was said

Claims · 19

This list shows the factual statements you can check for yourself: the words as said, and the claim restated to stand on its own.

1“a “real change” plan”The Liberal Party campaigned on a plan called ‘real change’ that included restoring democracy and ending omnibus bills.search
2“It was created as part of the budget implementation act”The Defence Investment Agency was created as part of a budget implementation act.search
3“trying to turn it into a Crown corporation”The government is moving to convert the Defence Investment Agency into a Crown corporation before it has been officially created.search
4“the Conservatives supported the Liberals in passing Bill C-5”More than a year before this debate, the Conservatives supported the passage of Bill C-5 in the House of Commons.search
5“the Major Projects Office and the DIA were created”The Major Projects Office and the Defence Investment Agency have been created.search
6““accelerating transformative projects of national interest””When Bill C-5 was introduced, the finance minister described it as aimed at ‘accelerating transformative projects of national interest’.search
7“Bill C-5 would remove barriers, leverage resources and help Canada become an energy superpower”The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources said Bill C-5 would remove barriers, leverage resources and help Canada become an energy superpower.search
8“piling taxpayers’ money into EV battery projects around the country for billions and billions of dollars”The federal government has put billions of dollars of public money into EV battery projects in Canada.search
9“The Liberals gave Stellantis hundreds of millions of dollars”The federal government gave Stellantis hundreds of millions of dollars for the Brampton project.search
10“it was Stellantis that was refusing to release the documents about what happened with the money for Brampton”A deputy minister said it was Stellantis that was refusing to release documents about the Brampton funding.search
11“the 300,000 some-odd regulations that are on the books”Canada has roughly 300,000 federal regulations on the books.search
12“taxpayers are going to pay the bill of probably $50 billion”Taxpayers are expected to pay roughly $50 billion for the pipeline to the Lower Mainland.search
13“$10 billion, give or take, to dredge up Roberts Bank”About $10 billion of public money is going to dredging at Roberts Bank.search
14“which is $25 a barrel because of the constrictions of exports caused by the government killing off northern gateway and killing off energy east.”On the day of this debate, the gap between West Texas Intermediate and Western Canadian Select crude was $25 a barrel.search
15““the largest supply disruption in history””The International Energy Agency has called the current energy crisis ‘the largest supply disruption in history’.search
16“Canada has the fourth-largest oil reserves”Canada has the fourth-largest oil reserves in the world.search
17“Canada has fallen from ninth to 18th on economic freedom”A recent study shows Canada fell from ninth to 18th in the economic freedom rankings.search
18“the first thing the government did upon getting elected in 2015 was jack up the top marginal tax rate”The Liberal government elected in 2015 raised the top marginal income tax rate as one of its first actions.search
19“the government printing hundreds of billions of dollars, with inflation”The federal government injected hundreds of billions of dollars, accompanied by inflation.search

Analysed on 2026-10-19