“Mr. Speaker, I can tell members that there is some stuff in this legislation that we can support. I represent a large farming area in Manitoba, Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman, and I have an agriculture background. I can tell members that the grain and oilseed producers in my riding have always had a lot of concerns about how sometimes their products do not get moved quickly; sometimes there are disruptions in rail and at the ports. We lose the confidence that we need as a nation, as a reliable supplier of our agri-food products. There are three main parts in this bill. There is one section in here under the transportation side that talks about interswitching. Why has the current government not put permanently in place the interswitching of rail so that our grain farmers, our oilseed producers and other commodities producers can use whichever rail company they want, to get their products to port?”
Statement grade
B
The average of Signal, Relevance, Respect and Clarity is 80. The grade is held to 76, 30 above Relevance.
76 / 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.
Claims 60%Reasoning 40%
This view breaks the statement into its steps and names what each one does.
Mr. Speaker, Claims · 30 wordsthe member would be fully aware that this government is committed to port development, whether it is in Churchill, Manitoba, Vague promiseor in Vancouver.There is a large expansion being discussed.1Reasoning · 17 wordsThat would alleviate a lot of the struggles with the export of grain, particularly in the fall.Claims · 30 wordsWe speak to ranchers in western Canada, and obviously it is the same everywhere.We all harvest in a certain window and that product all has to go to market, Reasoning · 23 wordsso we are going in the right direction in terms of port development.We need the processes to allow these expansions to happen.Partly on point
