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CTV's Question Period: Minister John Baird in Tel Aviv
Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird is in Tel Aviv, Israel, and discusses the decision by China and Russia to veto a UN resolution aimed at stopping Damascus' crackdown in Syria. He explains it wasn't a surprise, but it was deeply disappointing.
CTV's Question Period: Risky relations with China?
Expert panelists Wenran Jiang with the University of Alberta, and Gordon Chang, author, discuss Canada's opportunities and risks in forging a lasting energy relationship with China.
CTV's Question Period: Minister on unsustainable OAS
Minister of Human Resources Diane Finley says it would be irresponsible not to make changes to the Old Age Security program, as there will not be enough funding to support seniors in the future.
CTV's Question Period: The Scrum on political headlines
Dan Gardner with the Ottawa Citizen, John Ivison with the National Post and Aaron Wherry with Maclean's Magazine, discuss Old Age Security, deficit targets, and Canada's relations with China.
CTV's Question Period: MPs on pension changes
Shelly Glover, a Conservative MP, Peter Julian an NDP MP, and Ralph Goodale a Liberal MP discuss the OAS debate and what types of changes might be made to pensions.
CTV's Question Period: Jason Kenney, minister
The immigration minister discusses what changes are expected in the immigration reform and says more skilled workers are needed opposed to just anybody.
CTV's Question Period: Joe Oliver, minister
The natural resources minister discusses how the process is going in regards to the Northern Gateway pipeline project and says it is a matter of national urgency.
CTV's Question Period: The Scrum on hot topics
Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife, Dan Gardner with the Ottawa Citizen, and Gloria Galloway with the Globe and Mail discuss falling NDP support, Old Age Security, and what's expected when Parliament resumes.
CTV's Question Period: Spotlight on Gingrich
Former U.S. ambassador to Canada David Wilkins discusses how Newt Gingrich managed to beat Mitt Romney and also says it might be two months before we know who will be the Republican leader.
CTV's Question Period: Canadians overspending
CTV's Question Period's co-host discusses how Canadians are spending 'like crazy' on borrowed money and says household debt is three times the amount of national debt.
CTV's Question Period: Mark Carney on debt
The Bank of Canada governor discusses whether the eurozone crisis can drag Canada down and also how household debt is a serious issue in the country.
CTV's Question Period: Improving relationship
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo discusses what the First Nations chiefs are expecting out of the meeting with Harper.
CTV's Question Period: The Scrum on this week's issues
Dan Gardner with the Ottawa Citizen, Gloria Galloway with the Globe and Mail, and Tonda MacCharles with Toronto Star discuss the First Nations meeting with Harper, political ads and other hot topics of this week.
CTV's Question Period: Causing widespread stir
CTV's Question Period's co-host Kevin Newman discusses the proposed pipeline and Robert Kennedy Jr. bringing awareness to the project.
CTV's Question Period: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lawyer
An environmental lawyer discusses whether he thinks U.S. environmental groups should be getting involved in the Northern Gateway pipeline debate.
CTV's Question Period: Pipeline effects on B.C.
The B.C. Premier Christy Clark says even though the Northern Gateway pipeline would provide jobs, there are other ways of creating jobs in the province.
CTV's Question Period: Province's healthcare funds
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty discusses whether he will take the healthcare funding deal offered by the federal government and talks about how setting up an innovation fund would be a good idea.
CTV's Question Period: The Scrum on this week's issues
Dan Gardner with the Ottawa Citizen, Gloria Galloway with the Globe and Mail, and Aaron Wherry with Maclean's Magazine discuss the Liberal convention, Northern Gateway pipeline debate, and other news making headlines this week.
CTV's Question Period: Republican candidates square-off
Jake Tapper, ABC News Senior White House Correspondent, discusses the Republican presidential debates, and shares his insights about who is leading the way.
CTV Question Period: Northern Gateway pipeline debate
Terry Teegee, Vice Tribal Chief of the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council, Eric Swanson with Dogwood Initiative, and Kathryn Marshall with ethicaloil.org discuss the Northern Gateway pipeline.
CTV's Question Period: Controversial twin pipeline
Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver shares his insights on the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline.
CTV's Question Period: Liberal party's troubling future
Liberal party president hopefuls Sheila Copps and Mike Crawley discuss the Liberal party's future and the challenges they face.
CTV's Question Period: This week's political headlines
Gloria Galloway with the Globe and Mail, Susan Delacourt with the Toronto Star, and Dan Gardner with the Ottawa Citizen discuss this week's political headlines.
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Craig's Take
@ctvqp live chat: Harper's trade trip to China
Continue the conversation with a live chat during CTV Question Period. Should we be trading energy with China despite its human rights record and veto of the UN resolution to condemn the Syrian regime?
Craig's Take: Go east, young man
Canada has a lot to gain from this tilt of the global economic gravity away from the West and toward the Pacific.
@ctvqp Live Chat: Pension Reform and a New Parliamentary Session
Continue the conversation with a live web chat during CTV Question Period: Are you worried about the federal pension plan? Do you think the government will expand the burka ban? And how relevant can the NDP be until they elect their new leader.
Craig's Take: The politics of pipelines
Canadian pipelines have become a hot issue in the domestic politics of both Canada and the United States, and there is a lot more to come.
Craig's Take: The politics of pipelines
Canadian pipelines have become a hot issue in the domestic politics of both Canada and the United States, and there is a lot more to come.
Craig's Take: A Child's Christmas in Rupert
CTV's Chief Political Correspondent Craig Oliver remembers a cold, snowy Christmas that started out on a sad note, but ended with a lift to his self esteem.
Craig's Take: What's next for Attawapiskat?
The long and often shameful history of deteriorating Aboriginal communities in the North and federal government inaction endures.
Craig's Take: Is there a survival plan for health care?
Is a a survival plan for medicare in the works? Much of the coming debate may focus on whether the system will permit more health-care entrepreneurship and private-for-profit, medicine.
Craig's Take: Flaherty proved his critics right
A reputation in politics can sometimes be lost pretty quickly. You don't have to go any further than the Liberal Party to know that. And now the Conservatives may be at risk of going down that road themselves on their reputation for deft management of the economy.
Craig's Take: Major decision looms for the XL pipeline
It is at least arguable that no Canada-U.S. event in recent memory has caused so much personal pain for an American administration than the construction of the XL pipeline is causing for U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Craig's Take: Memoir was race against worsening vision loss
Craig worked on his book in fits and starts over the last 15 years, but it became a race against the enveloping darkness of vision loss as time went on.
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Craig's Take: Don't get caught up in contract fairness
The chattering classes in Ottawa seem to have arrived at a consensus that the manner in which the $33-billion shipbuilding contracts were handed out was fair.
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Craig's Take: NDP leadership race set for drama
There may be one more candidate yet to come if NDP critic Peggy Nash jumps into the fray, but with the entry of Quebec's Thomas Mulcair on Wednesday, the party's leadership field is pretty much complete.
Craig's Take: The meaning of incumbent wins
After five elections in five months, why are voters staying the course? And - Is it time for online voting?
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Craig's Take: How two elections could impact Cdn. politics
The results of a provincial election in Ontario and a leadership race in Alberta could have a lasting impact on national politics.
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Craig's Take: Too big to bail out
If the world slips into the second recession in three years, as many leading economists believe it will, it will be much worse than the last one.
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Craig's Take: Expect the unexpected as Parliament returns
The return of Parliament on Monday marks a watershed, in the life of the country. Whether it will be an eventful Parliament or not is difficult to say because it also contains unprecedented elements.
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Craig's Take: Anti-terrorism laws re-introduced to satisfy U.S.?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced this week that Canada will re-introduce draconian anti-terrorist laws introduced in the months after the 9-11 attacks but allowed to lapse 4 years ago. One can be forgiven for suspecting these measures are being revived more to satisfy American fears than for our own domestic needs.
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