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Weekly Wrap: School's out for MP's — but politics never breaks

6/20/202625 min

The House of Commons  heads into summer break. A majority government, a defiant Conservative party and a new NDP leader shook things up during the spring sitting. The Weekly Wrap panel — Laura D'Angelo, Zain Velji and Michael Solberg — look back on the sitting that was, and look ahead to what to expect next.

Clips

Poilievre Has Become Boring
Lighting NDP Money On Fire
Liberal Hubris Warning Sign
Foreign Policy: Carney's Kryptonite

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 10:00

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  2. Speaker 20:08

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  3. Speaker 30:08

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  4. Michael Solberg· Panelist0:09

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  5. Speaker 10:09

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  6. Speaker 50:14

    [upbeat music] This is a CBC podcast.

  7. JP Tasker· Host0:18

    [upbeat music] It's summer break on Parliament Hill. MPs have wrapped the spring sitting in the House of Commons, and won't return until the fall. The sitting ran 14 weeks, and a lot happened in those weeks.

  8. Steven MacKinnon· Soundbite0:38

    This is one of the most productive legislative sittings in recent memory.

  9. JP Tasker· Host0:42

    The Liberal government used its new majority to push through some last-minute bills, a majority obtained by more Conservatives who decided to cross the floor. But the party says it will continue to stand behind its leader.

  10. Melissa Lantsman· Soundbite0:54

    Conservatives are gonna continue to fight, um, uh, for, for Canadians, and I think Pierre Poilievre's the guy to lead that charge.

  11. JP Tasker· Host1:01

    That's while the New Democrats also have some harsh words for Carney's majority tactics in the House of Commons.

  12. Jagmeet Singh· Soundbite1:07

    We're n- n- seeing the government use its, uh, newly acquired majority to push through a bunch of legislation without sufficient debate, uh, and discussion.

  13. JP Tasker· Host1:17

    But the party's new leader still doesn't hold a seat of his own. I'm JP Tasker. It's time for another edition of our weekly wrap. It's also our last wrap panel until the fall, so let's break it all down one last time before Parliament

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