Maclean’s on the Hill – Episode 9

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Posted March 15, 2014 3:00 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: Olivia Chow, Pierre Karl Peladeau, Canada’s new free trade deal with South Korea, Episode 9

Cormac talks to former NDP MP and new Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow, Aaron Wherry and Maclean’s Quebec bureau chief Martin Patriquin discuss Pierre Karl Peladeau and the possibility of another national unity crisis. In addition, John Geddes interviews Todd Winterhalt of Export Development Canada about Canada’s new free trade deal with South Korea.

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