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Political Panel: June 2011 Archives

Political Panel, June 24: Filibusta-rama

At airtime on Friday, the NDP's filibuster wore on and on and on...with MPs dozing off at their desks and bringing comfy clothes to the House as the debate over back-to-work legislation for Canada Post employees continued. Julie and Rob, however, were as fresh-faced as ever as they talked about what the filibuster could mean for opposition-government relations in parliament.

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Political Panel, June 17: Labour change

Lisa Raitt wants the labour messes if Air Canada and Canada Post cleaned up. And so last week she was standing by to enact back-to-work legislation for Air Canada employees, and is ready to do so this week for Canada Post.

Meanwhile, changes to the Human Rights Act and senate reform were making life interesting on the Hill. And it always gives our political panel something to talk about...

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Political Panel, June 10: Rerun season

Right around this time, so many things you see on TV are in reruns. And it seems like this week had a few political rerun elements: a budget that seemed awfully familiar, the Auditor General's report which we heard about long before its release...And then, the familiar image of a woman holding a stopsign with Harper's name on it.

Of course this time around, that woman was NOT a protesting senate page, but Stockwell Day's wife Valerie, and the sign said "WE LOVE HARPER". That would be, in case you couldn't guess, at the ongoing Conservative convention. Our political panel was at the convention, and they joined us in studio... without any signs.

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