Each week, the Maclean’s politics team and Cormac MacSweeney sit down to hash out the week’s news in Ottawa. This week, John Geddes talks to the incoming premier of New Brunswick, Brian Gallant; Paul Wells talks to former British MP David Milliband about the crises in Iraq and Syria, Aaron Wherry sits down with Liberal MP Ted Hsu to discuss Hsu’s decision to not seek re-election, and we try to make sense of the week that Paul Calandra made us question our democracy.

Full interview with incoming New Brunswick premier Brian Gallant

THE HEADLINES

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  ON DECORUM
  Who’s responsible for the House?

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  ON CALANDRA
  A parliamentary apology

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  ON TRANSPARENCY
  Chiefs disclose their salaries

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  ON EXPENSES
  Parliament’s top-five spenders

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  ON OBAMA
  The president’s last chance

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  ON IRAQ
  Commons would vote on combat

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