Watch: Our panel unpacks the political fallout from the Supreme Court ruling on physician-assisted suicide and John Baird’s resignation from politics.
OTTAWA — In one week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s pit bull in Parliament announced he was leaving politics and the Conservatives were tasked with drafting laws on physician-assisted suicide.
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On The West Block with Tom Clark, two of Ottawa’s top journalists help unpack the politics of the week.
Will assisted suicide become a campaign issue?
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Is there significance to the fact Harper’s finance minister and foreign affairs minister both stepped down instead of running under him in 2015?
Heather Scoffield, Ottawa bureau chief for The Canadian Press, and Mark Kennedy, parliamentary bureau chief for the Ottawa Citizen weigh in.
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