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PODCAST: Maclean’s on the Hill, Feb. 14
Jim Flaherty, income-splitting and what you need to know about the federal budget
| 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 we talk Jim Flaherty and the income-splitting controversy, John Geddes talks to Stephane Dion about the Liberal convention and Kevin Page, Stephen Gordon and Ailish Campbell explain what you need to know about the federal budget. |  Cormac MacSweeney, Parliament Hill bureau chief for CityTV and Rogers Radio. |
THE HEADLINES
ON THE BUDGET
Deciphering Jim Flaherty’s tome
ON WINNING
Harper’s budget advantage
ON FLAHERTY
Candid remarks on income splitting
ON INCOME-SPLITTING
A controversial policy, explained
ON LIBERALS
Tories hope to thwart Liberal confab
ON QP
Highlights in bickering
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