Each week, the Maclean’s Ottawa bureau sits down with Cormac MacSweeney to discuss the headlines of the week. This week, Aaron Wherry talks to Kevin Page about the former parliamentary budget officer’s new book. Martin Patriquin analyzes the first French-language debate of the election campaign. We look more closely at the ongoing F-35 debate with David Perry of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. And Todd Hirsch, Chief Economist of ATB Financial, chats with us about the debate over the definition of recession.

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THE HEADLINES

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  ON TERRY
  Why he can’t be bought

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  ON BUTTS
  Who is the man behind Justin Trudeau?

• ON DEBATE
  Wells on a French-language showdown

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  ON PSYCHOLOGY
  Peek inside a partisan’s brain

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  ON BLURRED LINES
  Behold the voter/consumer

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  ON CHOICES
  Try our Policy Face-off Machine