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Listen: Maclean’s on the Hill live at the University of Ottawa

The Maclean’s Ottawa bureau and Cormac MacSweeney in conversation with MPs on the election year ahead

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Each week, Aaron Wherry and the Maclean’s politics team sit down with Rogers radio’s Cormac MacSweeney to hash out the week’s news in Ottawa.

This week — in celebration of the podcast’s first birthday — we invited listeners in Ottawa to a live taping at the University of Ottawa:

 

During the noonhour on Friday, we heard from Pierre Poilievre, Minister of State (Democratic Reform):

 

Irwin Cotler, Liberal MP and Maclean’s Parliamentarian of the Year:

 

… and NDP MP Jean Crowder:

 

We also spoke to Nancy Peckford, executive director of Equal Voice:

 

Later in our show, Ottawa bureau chief John Geddes grilled bestselling authors Paul Wells and Susan Delacourt on what we can expect in the election year ahead:

 

Here’s a rough cut of this week’s edition. The edited and condensed version of the show is here. 

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