Maclean’s on the Hill – Episode 7

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Posted March 1, 2014 5:23 pm.

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Each week, the Maclean’s politics team and Cormac MacSweeney sit down to hash out the week’s news in Ottawa. Expect incisive analysis and commentary, as well as interviews with the biggest newsmakers of the last seven days.

This week: Episode 7

Aaron Wherry talks to former BC chief electoral officer Harry Neufeld about the Fair Elections Act, Michael Petrou talks with John Geddes about what it was like on the ground in Ukraine, Cormac interviews Ottawa police chief Charles Bordeleau and Aaron and Paul Wells discuss the week’s major stories.

An exclusive interview with the retired general and conversations with Chrystia Freeland and Joe Oliver

 

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