“Madam Speaker, I listened very carefully to the member opposite. He made reference to Canada, France and the U.S.A. I think it is important that, when we think of the G7 countries, which include the United States, France, Germany and England, Canada places exceptionally well. We are one of only two countries, Canada and Germany, that have a AAA credit rating. The Conservatives want to see cutbacks. Would those cutbacks be to military expenditures, where we are meeting the 2% targets? That is a $5-billion expense. Are the Conservatives saying that we should not be spending that money? Are the Conservatives saying that we should not have given the tax break for 22 million Canadians? Are they saying that we should reinstate the carbon tax, in order to justify what the member opposite is saying? Where is the overall plan to develop the Canadian economy, coming from the Conservative Party?”
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Positioning 18%Reasoning 23%Claims 59%
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Madam Speaker, Positioning · 15 wordsI disagree with the IMF’s assertion that Canada’s debt to GDP is in good shape.1PositioningReasoning · 19 wordsI think that fails to take into account the fact that Canada’s subnational governments have some of the highest, Claims · 92 wordsif not the highest, indebtedness in the OECD.2If I recall correctly, the Province of Ontario has more debt than the State of California, whose economy is bigger than Canada’s.3Subnational debt in the United States is much lower than in Canada, 4and that is not incorporated into the G7 rankings that the IMF has analyzed, nor is the fact that of the G7 countries, Canada is the smallest currency and is not a reserve currency, unlike the other members of the European Union, in the Eurozone, the United States or Japan.5Positioning · 17 wordsI think that assertion fails to take into account what the member opposite has been talking about.PositioningReasoning · 21 wordsIn brief, to finish, the solution is to address supply-side reforms, rather than the government’s approach of always subsidizing demand-side initiatives.Vague promiseClaims · 10 wordsThat is the fundamental problem with the government’s economic approach.
