Maclean’s on the Hill: Assisted suicide, Bill C-51, John Baird
The Maclean’s Ottawa bureau revisits the week that was
Each week, the Maclean’s politics team and Rogers radio’s Cormac MacSweeney sit down to hash out the week’s news in Ottawa.
This week, we look closer at the Supreme Court’s ruling on assisted suicide, the government’s new anti-terror legislation and John Baird’s resignation.
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THE HEADLINES
ON RESIGNATIONSExit John Baird, stage right
ON BAIRDThe minister’s many faces
ON OILThe A to Z of plummeting prices
ON RED TAPEWherry defends Parliament
ON DYINGThe Supreme Court’s latest landmark
ON A CENSUSA medium-form compromise?
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