Each week, the Maclean’s Ottawa bureau sits down with Cormac MacSweeney to discuss the headlines of the week. This week, we talk to Conservative parliamentary James Bezan about the government’s intentions in Iraq, Green party leader Elizabeth May tells us about her hopes for the next election and John Geddes takes a closer look at the government’s approach to crime.

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THE HEADLINES

• 
  ON NIQABS
  Stephen Harper’s veiled threat

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  ON MULCAIR
  #YYZ, meet the NDP leader

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  ON INCOME SPLITTING
  Who benefits from the Tory plan

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  ON ELECTIONS
  How should leaders debate?

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  ON BUDGETING
  A look at fiscal records

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  ON REDFORD
  She didn’t come back for Alberta

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