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What the House talks about

Since May 26, 2025, MPs have made 44,815 speeches in the House: 8.7 million words. These are the words each party uses far more than the others.

Counted from Hansard, the House's own record of every speech. A word on a party's list is one its MPs say much more often than everyone else, not just often. How we count.

Rising this week

Words the House used far more in the sitting week ending October 9 than in a usual sitting week this Parliament.

Each party's words

The words and phrases each party says far more than the rest of the House, since May 26, 2025. The bigger the circle, the more often its MPs said it. Tap one to see who says it and how that has changed.

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Liberal

“build”

Liberal MPs said it 5,928 times since May 26, 2025: 3 times as often as the rest of the House, per word spoken. 172 different MPs used it.

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How we count

  • Every substantive speech in Hansard since May 26, 2025, the first sitting of this Parliament. Procedural remarks (chairing debate, calling members) are left out. The trend lines go back to January 2021, where our Hansard starts.
  • A party's words are the ones it says far more than the rest of the House, per word spoken, and often enough that the gap isn't chance. The method is the weighted log-odds ratio with an informative prior (Monroe, Colaresi and Quinn, “Fightin' Words”, Political Analysis, 2008), a standard way to compare how groups speak. A word needs at least 40 uses and enough of the caucus saying it, so one MP's favourite topic isn't the party's.
  • Counts are the exact word or phrase. “Taxes” counts “taxes”, not “tax”. Phrases are two or three words and never run across a comma or a full stop. When a phrase is almost always part of a longer one, only the longer one is shown.
  • Left out on purpose: everyday words, House procedure (“Mr. Speaker”, “the hon. member”), party and leader names, and riding names, which MPs say constantly when they refer to each other. Province names stay.
  • Each speech counts for the party the MP sat with that day, from the Hansard label, so an MP who crossed the floor is counted with each party for their time in it.
  • Rising this week compares the sitting week ending October 9 with the rest of this Parliament: words said at least three times as often as usual, by at least three MPs.
  • Bloc Québécois MPs mostly speak French; Hansard's English text, the House's own translation, is what we count, so their words are the translator's English.

Each MP's own words, the ones that set them apart from the rest of the House, are on their page under Speeches. Find your MP.