Jaime Watt joins Power & Politics host Evan Solomon each week to look at how issues making waves in Ottawa resonate with Canadians.

Political Traction with Navigator's Jamie Watt appears weekly on Power & Politics. (CBC)

Monitoring the House of Commons' question period, mainstream media and the conversation on social media, Watt and his team at Navigator Ltd. determine which issues gained the most attention in official Ottawa, and then measure how much traction those issues managed to find with Canadians outside the nation's capital.

Last week, the introduction of bill C-30 — the government's legislation allowing for access to internet and telecom customers' information without a warrant — and the resulting backlash led the conversation in the capital and across the country. What started as public outcry against what was seen as overly-intrusive legislation only intensified with Public Safety Minister Vic Toews' handling of the criticism and the emergence of the @vikileaks30 Twitter account.

The Drummond Report in Ontario also grabbed a significant share of the conversation in Ottawa, which was largely supportive of the former bank economist's advice for balancing the Ontario budget, and generally with Canadians, who reacted to the recommendations with more skepticism.

Finally, opposition MPs' attacks over the cost of F-35 fighter jets made a splash in Ottawa but held little traction in the rest of the country.

Here's a look at the numbers for the top three issues of the week: