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End-of-year interviews: Justin Trudeau on everything under the sun

Audio and video: Aaron Wherry and Cormac MacSweeney sit down with the Liberal leader

Aaron Wherry and Cormac MacSweeney both peppered Liberal leader Justin Trudeau with questions on all manner of files in respective year-end interviews. Trudeau speaks about the taxes Canadians should pay, the scourge of government advertising, achievable democratic reform that produces a better Parliament, the proper treatment of sexual harassment allegations on the Hill, the appropriate response to Islamic State, the balance between civil liberties and security measures as authorities monitor terror threats on home soil, which pipelines are worth supporting in Canada, family life in the Trudeau household, and what the aspiring prime minister thinks of all those gaffes. Cormac put Trudeau on camera. Aaron spoke to him over the phone.

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