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Hart House Inter-Varsity 2025
Oct 17, 2025 · BP
Motions from this series
Hart House IV 2025 (2025)10 motions
- Round 1This house supports widespread social and legal norms against artistic interpolation.
- Round 2From behind a veil of ignorance, this house would choose to be born into old money rather than as someone who will become new money in their twenties.
- Round 3This house believes that the National Hockey League should prioritize expansion into large markets without an established fan base (e.g., Houston, Atlanta) rather than smaller markets with many fans (e.g., Quebec City, Halifax).
- Round 4This house supports replacing all corporate, capital gains, and property taxes with a Harberger tax on all scarce non-liquid tradable assets (e.g., land and buildings, exclusive rights like intellectual property).
- Round 5This house regrets the increased consolidation of healthcare services into IDNs.
- QuarterfinalsThis house regrets the demonization of materialism in dating.
- SemifinalsThis house believes that commercial wild-capture marine fishing does more harm than good for the wellbeing of nonhuman animals.
- Grand FinalThis house believes that moral realism is true.
- Novice SemifinalsThis house supports involuntary interventions for suspected cult members.
- Novice FinalsThis house regrets the narrative that the parent-child relationship is uniquely meaningful and important.
Hart House IV 2024 (2024)10 motions
- Round 1THBT the feminist movement should actively advocate for antinatalism
- Round 2THW pursue a career as a professional sports player
- Round 3THS the imposition of a tax on excess unrealized gains for individuals and corporations in the United States
- Round 4THBT states should allocate the majority of settlement funds towards direct benefits for current and historic victims of the opioid epidemic (e.g. housing vouchers, paying medical expenses, naloxone distribution) rather than towards preventative structural change (e.g. funding medical research, producing anti-stigma marketing campaigns, building out healthcare infrastructure)
- Round 5THBT social media platforms should be nationalised
- QuarterfinalsTHBT the Canadian government should prioritise the widescale construction of public housing over stimulating the private market (i.e. by lifting rent caps, cutting development taxes)
- SemifinalsTHBT the U.S should pay Panama significant per-capita subsidies for detaining and repatriating migrants within the Darién Gap
- Grand FinalTHS the widespread and accessible availability of iForgor
- Novice SemifinalsTHBT TikTok has done more harm than good to the music industry
- Novice FinalsTHP a world where babies are reassigned to different families at birth
Hart House IV 2023 (2023)10 motions
- Round 1THW heavily discourage people from going to colleges/universities
- Round 2THBT Ukraine should suspend elections
- Round 3For nations that have gone through collective trauma (ex: genocide, colonization, civil war, etc), THP narratives that emphasize cultural elements removed from the trauma (ex: regional festivities, shared language, emphasis on looking to the future, etc) over narratives that memorialize the trauma (ex: memorials, minority quota policies, etc)
- Round 4THS the feminist movement's use of religious figures in their advocacy for women's rights e.g. Kali in Hinduism, Mary Magdalene in Christianity etc.
- Round 5THW replace the ICC with permanent regional courts to prosecute crimes against humanity
- QuarterfinalsTHBT the public accusation that the Indian government was responsible for Nijjar's assassination was not in the interest of Canada
- SemifinalsTHS aggressive deconsolidation of the US private sector (e.g., breaking up dominant firms like Amazon and Monsanto, preventing future horizontal and vertical mergers, subsidizing competitors to existing monopolies, etc.)
- Grand FinalTHBT newly established developing nations should strive to establish Jante as a cultural foundation in their nations
- Novice SemifinalsTHR the prevalence of marriage-based matchmaking shows (Love is Blind, Indian Matchmaking, Married at First Sight, The Ultimatum).
- Novice FinalsTH, as Jenny, would take the deal.
Hart House IV 2022 (2022)11 motions
- Round 0THW ban zoos
- Round 1THS Joe Biden not running for re-election in 2024
- Round 2THO the rise of ‘Publish or Perish’ culture
- Round 3THR the decline of the Catholic Church's art patronage
- Round 4THS a universal right of territories to secede from parent nations by referendum
- Round 5THR the belief that forgiveness is a virtue
- QuarterfinalsTHS the implementation of a financial transaction tax
- Novice SemifinalsTHR the narrative of intergenerational meritocracy
- SemifinalsTHP a world in which religious beliefs are not codified in a scripture or doctrine
- Grand FinalTHP a world where Augmented Eternity is widely accessible
- Novice FinalsTH, as a contestant on a reality show, would attempt to portray themself as a villain as opposed to a hero
Hart House IV 2021 (2021)11 motions
- Round 1THP media funding models that rely on primarily advertising to models that rely primarily on subscriptions.
- Round 2TH prefers a world where supreme court justices remain anonymous to the public
- Round 3THBT Canada and the United States should nationalize their oil industries.
- Round 4THR the pre-dominance of youth within social movements (i.e tailoring social media presence to teenage and young adult consumers, the presence of young leaders)
- Round 5THS the Chinese government's efforts to disparage and exclude the influence and visibility of prominent, highly successful entrepreneurs.
- Novice Semi FinalsTHR the decision of many public health authorities to optimize for anticipated public reactions (vs. strictly truth) in their messaging during the pandemic (e.g. emphasizing no evidence masks are effective in March 2020 to discourge hoarding; adjusting vaccine guidance to encourage take up etc.)
- QuarterfinalsTHR the decision of many public health authorities to optimize for anticipated public reactions (vs. strictly truth) in their messaging during the pandemic. (e.g. emphasizing no evidence masks are effective in March 2020 to discourge hoarding; adjusting vaccine guidance to encourage take up etc.)
- SemifinalsTHR the decline of class as the primary organizing political identity in liberal democracies.
- ESL FinalTHS the use of artificial intelligence within conflicts (i.e AI-led drones, AI-led ground troops)
- Novice FinalTHW require colleges to roughly approximate the economic breakdown of society in the composition of their student body (e.g. admit an equal number of candidates from each wealth quartile)
- Grand FinalTHBT the United States should have maintained a prominent military presence in Afghanistan long-term.
Hart House IV 2020 (2020)10 motionsCA: 🇺🇸 🐪 J., 🇬🇧 Jason X., 🇨🇦 Navin K., Sebastian D.
- Round 1THR the rise of OnlyFans in the pornography market
- Round 2THBT Supreme Courts should abide by a textualist model of interpretation
- Round 3THS the phenomenon of green card marriages
- Round 4THBT organized religious groups should formally recognize scripture that contradicts primary religious texts
- Round 5THW prohibit cities from offering tax credits and other incentives to attract large companies
- Novice Semi FinalsTHW abolish sex-based segregation in sports in favour of ability-based segregation
- QuarterfinalsTHBT the Argentinian government should have rejected the 2018 IMF bailout and sought to negotiate further concessions, even at the risk of not receiving a bailout
- Novice FinalTHP a world in which parents follow an authoritarian parenting model rather than an egalitarian parenting model
- SemifinalsAssuming feasibility, THW nationalize all high-cost research equipment and create a national pool of this equipment where all researchers must apply to a centralized agency for access
- Grand FinalTHBT it is in the interest of countries that experienced Japanese colonial occupation (e.g., South Korea, China, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam) to boycott the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo if far-right paraphernalia (e.g., displays of the Rising Sun flag) are permitted.
What gets set here
Social & Identity24%
Economics16%
Media8%
Health & Medicine6%
Law & Crime6%
International Relations6%
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16% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 12 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.0.
Last edition: 16 of 121 teams broke.
- 202011 pts · 78.9 speaks16/116
- 202111 pts · 80.0 speaks16/113
- 202210 pts · 77.9 speaks17/77
- 202311 pts · 79.1 speaks16/86
- 202411 pts · 79.5 speaks16/102
- 202516 pts · 78.8 speaks16/121
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break16 teams
- Novice break8 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Emery T. | MO | This house regrets the increased consolidation of healthcare services into IDNs. | 86 |
| 🇺🇸 Amitai P. | DPM | This house regrets the increased consolidation of healthcare services into IDNs. | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Elizabeth L. | PM | This house regrets the increased consolidation of healthcare services into IDNs. | 84 |
| 🇨🇦 Ethan C. | GW | From behind a veil of ignorance, this house would choose to be born into old money rather than as someone who will become new money in their twenties. | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Tanya C. | DPM | This house regrets the increased consolidation of healthcare services into IDNs. | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Elizabeth L. | LO | This house believes that the National Hockey League should prioritize expansion into large markets without an established fan base (e.g., Houston, Atlanta) rather than smaller markets with many fans (e.g., Quebec City, Halifax). | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Seamus A. | LO | This house supports replacing all corporate, capital gains, and property taxes with a Harberger tax on all scarce non-liquid tradable assets (e.g., land and buildings, exclusive rights like intellectual property). | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Amitai P. | DLO | This house believes that the National Hockey League should prioritize expansion into large markets without an established fan base (e.g., Houston, Atlanta) rather than smaller markets with many fans (e.g., Quebec City, Halifax). | 83 |
| 🇨🇦 Rhys N. | MO | From behind a veil of ignorance, this house would choose to be born into old money rather than as someone who will become new money in their twenties. | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Rohan S. | PM | This house regrets the increased consolidation of healthcare services into IDNs. | 83 |
| 🇨🇦 Rhys N. | PM | This house regrets the increased consolidation of healthcare services into IDNs. | 83 |
| 🇨🇦 Arpi Y. | MO | This house believes that the National Hockey League should prioritize expansion into large markets without an established fan base (e.g., Houston, Atlanta) rather than smaller markets with many fans (e.g., Quebec City, Halifax). | 82 |
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