Also: Joe Oliver prepares an economic update
Each week, the Maclean’s politics team and Cormac MacSweeney sit down to hash out the week’s news in Ottawa. This week, the bureau discusses the misconduct scandal on Parliament Hill, the resignation of Dean Del Mastro, a new bill to make Remembrance Day a national holiday and a proposal to reinstate the long-form census.
ON HARASSMENT
Trudeau turfs two MPs
ON DEL MASTRO
The Peterborough MP’s final speech
ON AMERICA
How the Republican swing helps Canada
ON FAMILIES
Who wins under Harper’s new tax policy
ON NUMBERS
Why won’t the Tories show us their rough work?
ON HISTORY
A former media baron on the ‘magic thread’