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 this week’s Parliamentarian of the Year Awards, the misconduct allegations that still hang over Parliament Hill, Canada’s role in the battle for Iraq and a new book on John F. Kennedy.

THE HEADLINES

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  ON EI
  Joe Oliver trusts the CFIB

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  ON POTYs
  MPs honour the finest among them

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  ON FLORA
  A lifetime of achievement

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  ON COTLER
  The Liberal MP’s big question

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  ON LOSING
  Kirk Lapointe diagnoses his defeat

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  ON ROBOCALLS
  Michael Sona sentenced to nine months

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