Maclean’s on the Hill: Syrian refugees, climate talks
Each week, the Maclean’s Ottawa bureau sits down with Cormac MacSweeney to discuss the headlines of the week. This week, Immigration Minister John McCallum responds to questions about how the Liberal government’s plan to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada in a matter of months. Raymond Louie, a Vancouver city councillor and president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, has lingering questions about how the plan will roll out. And as governments around the world prepare for the Paris climate summit, we hear from Maclean’s senior writer Laura Payton and Andrew Leach, an economist who advised the Alberta government’s climate strategy. Our podcast concludes with the bureau’s weekly panel discussion.
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THE HEADLINES
ON TRUDEAU Our 2015 Newsmaker of the Year
ON THE QUEEN A PM meets a monarch
ON SCIENCE How to make Canada a leader
ON CLIMATE Expectations build for Paris
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