On Point | Scouts Canada's sexual abuse scandal
CBC News
Posted: Jul 8, 2012 9:13 AM NT
Last Updated: Jul 8, 2012 11:55 AM NT
On Point host David Cochrane speaks with Scouts Canada's chief commissioner Steve Kent about the child sexual abuse scandal facing the youth organization.
Also on this week's show former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Shawn Skinner, former Liberal MP Siobhan Coady and Lana Payne, head of the provincial federation of labour, discuss a recent poll that puts the NDP ahead of the governing Tories and they grade the latest session of the house of assembly.
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