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When we asked MPs in Ottawa to take the Maclean’s 60-Second Challenge, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan took the plunge. How did his colleagues fare? Watch them sit in the hot seat.

When we asked MPs in Ottawa to take the Maclean’s 60-Second Challenge, Liberal MP Randeep Sarai took the plunge. How did his colleagues fare? Watch them sit in the hot seat.

When we asked MPs in Ottawa to take the Maclean’s 60-Second Challenge, Liberal MP Peter Schiefke took the plunge. How did his colleagues fare? Watch them sit in the hot seat.

When we asked MPs in Ottawa to take the Maclean’s 60-Second Challenge, Conservative MP Lisa Raitt took the plunge. How did her colleagues fare? Watch them sit in the hot seat.

When we asked MPs in Ottawa to take the Maclean’s 60-Second Challenge, NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice took the plunge. How did his colleagues fare? Watch them sit in the hot seat.

When we asked MPs in Ottawa to take the Maclean’s 60-Second Challenge, Conservative MP Erin O’Toole took the plunge. How did his colleagues fare? Watch them sit in the hot seat.

When we asked MPs in Ottawa to take the Maclean’s 60-Second Challenge, Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes took the plunge. How did her colleagues fare? Watch them sit in the hot seat.

When we asked MPs in Ottawa to take the Maclean’s 60-Second Challenge, Liberal MP Seamus O’Regan took the plunge. How did his colleagues fare? Watch them sit in the hot seat.

When we asked MPs in Ottawa to take the Maclean’s 60-Second Challenge, Green Party leader Elizabeth May took the plunge. How did her colleagues fare? Watch them sit in the hot seat.

s the Zika virus spreads across the Americas—it’s now circulating in 26 countries and regions—Canadians have been told we’re at low risk of becoming infected. The type of mosquito that spreads the virus, called Aedes aegypti, doesn’t live here. But Fiona Hunter, an entomologist at Brock University, notes that other types of mosquito can spread the virus—maybe even some in Canada. In her special containment lab at Brock University, she’s trying to answer the question: could Canadian bugs spread Zika, too? Read Kate Lunau’s full story.