Each week, the Maclean’s politics team and Cormac MacSweeney sit down to hash out the week’s news in Ottawa. This week, Ottawa bureau chief John Geddes speaks with Bill Gates about global child and maternal health. We hear from Tory MP Roxanne James, the parliamentary secretary to the minister of public safety, on Bill C-51. Ontario Education Minister Liz Sandals talks about her government’s new sex ed curriculum. And our politics panel talks about some of that, as well as Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s surprising underdog status in the polls.

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THE HEADLINES

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  ON ROCK BOTTOM
  Is the 41st Parliament a lost cause?

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  ON REFORM
  Michael Chong’s bill passes the House

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  ON TRUDEAU
  The Liberal leader is an underdog

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  ON GATES
  The billionaire on global progress

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  ON KEYSTONE
  What of Canada-U.S. relations?

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  ON MAIN ESTIMATES
  They aren’t just wild guesses

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