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Roman Baber

Conservative on Proposed Toronto Homeless Shelter 2026-10-08

193 words · 11 sentences · 14 clauses

Statement grade

A+

Average 97 / 100

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Claims 73%Positioning 6%The ask 21%

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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 83 wordsToronto is building a shelter that will act as an injection site at Keele and Wilson.¹ It will be located between the St. Theresa’s Day Care Centre and the Pierre Laporte Middle School.² The shelter will hand out needles and have a safe room where anyone can inject. We already have the Toronto plaza shelter one intersection west.³ It turned Jane and Wilson into a hub for drugs, crime and chaos. Now Toronto wants to turn Keele and Wilson into Jane and Wilson, Positioning · 12 wordsbut we do not want a drug den between our two schools.Positioning Claims · 58 wordsIt is a good thing the Province of Ontario can end this madness with an order or a slight expansion of the Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act.⁴ It prohibits consumption sites within 200 metres of schools.⁵ The premier already blocked construction of a similar shelter in St. Catharines, ⁶and the site did not even have any schools nearby. The ask · 40 wordsToday, I call on MPP Kerzner and Premier Doug Ford to stand up for Downsview. I ask them to save our children from the needles on their school playgrounds, and block the construction of the shelter at 1220 Wilson Avenue.⁷

At a glance

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What the tags mean

Signal · 91

1 of 1 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 “but we do not want a drug den between our two schools.”Positioning: praise, blame or attack. No claim, reason or ask.

Relevance · no score

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Respect · 100

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Clarity · 100

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Nothing lost points.

Claims · 7

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1“Toronto is building a shelter that will act as an injection site at Keele and Wilson”Toronto is building a shelter that will act as an injection site at Keele and Wilson.search
2“located between the St. Theresa’s Day Care Centre and the Pierre Laporte Middle School”The proposed Keele and Wilson shelter site is located between the St. Theresa’s Day Care Centre and the Pierre Laporte Middle School.search
3“We already have the Toronto plaza shelter one intersection west”There is already a shelter at the Toronto plaza at Jane and Wilson, one intersection west of Keele and Wilson.search
4“an order or a slight expansion of the Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act”Ontario’s Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act exists and could be used, or expanded, to block the proposed shelter.search
5“It prohibits consumption sites within 200 metres of schools”The Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act prohibits consumption sites within 200 metres of schools.search
6“The premier already blocked construction of a similar shelter in St. Catharines”Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government blocked construction of a similar shelter in St. Catharines.search
7“block the construction of the shelter at 1220 Wilson Avenue”A shelter is proposed for construction at 1220 Wilson Avenue in Toronto.search

Analysed on 2026-10-19