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PODCAST: Maclean’s on the Hill, Feb. 7
This week: Pierre Poilievre, the federal budget and Rob Ford
| 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, Cormac talks to Kevin Sorenson, the minister of state for finance, and Aaron Wherry talks to Kevin Page about the federal budget. Paul Wells interviews Pierre Poilievre about the Fair Elections Act. John Geddes checks in with Senate Liberal leader James Cowan about life as an independent. Maclean’s columnist Emma Teitel talks to Toronto Star reporter and author Robyn Doolittle about the saga of Rob Ford. And Nick Taylor-Vaisey recaps the highlights of this week in Question Period. |  Cormac MacSweeney, Parliament Hill bureau chief for CityTV and Rogers Radio. |
THE HEADLINES
ON ELECTORAL REFORM
Pierre Poilievre’s big reform
ON FORD
Robyn Doolittle’s Crazy Town
ON THE BUDGET
Jim Flaherty fights a deficit
ON SOCHI
An Olympic preview
ON THE SENATE
Trudeau’s gambit reverberates
ON QP
Highlights in bickering
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