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Each week, the Maclean’s Ottawa bureau sits down with Cormac Mac Sweeney to discuss the headlines of the week.
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A motion which denounces Islamophobia has created a firestorm of controversy on Parliament Hill. We start our show with Liberal MP Iqra Khalid who speaks about her motion forward, the criticisms from the conservatives, and tells us about the hateful messages she’s received simply for introducing a motion to speak out against hate.
From reassurances in Washington to clearing a big hurdle with the EU trade deal, It’s been a big week for the Trudeau government on the trade file. We speak with an expert: Achim Hurrelmann, a professor of political science at Carleton University.
Trudeau’s first visit with Donald Trump at the White House was historic, and probably one of the more unusual meetings between a Prime Minister and a President. Maclean’s senior writer Anne Kingston and I were both on the trip, and we’ll give our insights and a behind-the-scenes look at that first face-to-face.
Finally we end off the show with Shannon Proudfoot who joins us to break down her profile of Canada’s new immigration minister, Ahmed Hussen, and lay out this week’s edition of the Ottawa Power Rankings.
ON THE CONSERVATIVES
Terry Glavin on the rise of the fringe in the Tories
ON ENERGY
Jim Prentice’s last plea on making Canada an energy superpower
ON TRUMP AND TRUDEAU
Anne Kingston’s dispatch from the day
ON MEMES IN POLITICS
How social media can help world leaders with their Trump tightrope
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