Each week, the Maclean’s politics team and Cormac MacSweeney sit down to hash out the week’s news in Ottawa. This week, Paul Wells reports from Scotland on the nation’s dramatic referendum, John Geddes talks to Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland about the situation in Ukraine, Cormac looks at the political ramifications of Mike Duffy’s trial, Aaron Wherry looks at the NDP’s proposal for a federal minimum wage and the politics panel convenes to consider the permanent campaign that has taken hold of federal politics.

NDP MP Nathan Cullen on a federal minimum wage.

Economist Kevin Milligan on minimum wage policy.

Luiza Savage talks to Nebraska congressman Lee Terry about Keystone XL.

THE HEADLINES

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  ON SCOTLAND
  Scots want better government

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  ON UKRAINE
  Petro Poroshenko visits Ottawa

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  ON DUFFY
  Will his trial devolve into circus?

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  ON WAGES
  The NDP has a proposal

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  ON DEBATE
  What happened to Commons discourse?

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  ON REFORM
  Michael Chong wants to empower MPs

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