Each week, the Maclean’s politics team and Cormac MacSweeney sit down to hash out the week’s news in Ottawa. Expect incisive analysis and commentary, as well as interviews with the biggest newsmakers of the last seven days. This week: Paul Wells sits down with Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak and we look closer at the Liberal party’s standing in Quebec, Justin Trudeau’s troubles with the Catholic Church over abortion, and this weekend’s presidential election in Ukraine.

THE HEADLINES

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  ON HUDAK
  Where will he find 100,000 jobs?

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  ON WYNNE
  Dissecting the premier’s pension plan

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  ON UKRAINE
  A ‘chocolate king’ might be president

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  ON OBSERVERS
  Mike Harris monitors Ukraine’s election

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  ON LIBERALS
  A questionable nomination in Quebec

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  ON ABORTION
  Why Justin Trudeau took the right stand

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