It really is a celebrity-comes-to-town type of coverage [ﾅ] everybody knows who Justin Trudeau is, and Sophie as well.

Welcome to episode 5, ‘Mr. Trudeau Goes to Washington!’

This week was a big week for Canadian politics on the global stage. Prime Minister Trudeau visited Washington, and he is the first Prime Minister to be invited for a White House state dinner in 19 years.

Whether you agree with the policies of Prime Minister Trudeau and the Liberal party or not, it’s very obvious they ran on a very different type of platform than what’s generating the [American] headlines.

Welcome to episode four! Last week was our ‘Welcome to Ottawa’ episode, and this week, we’re taking you out of Ottawa. This is our ‘Get out of Ottawa’ episode. We’re not focusing specifically on Ottawa this week because it’s an interesting week for Canadian politics for a few reasons. First off, this is an interesting week for Canadian politics because it’s an interesting week for American politics. March 1 was Super Tuesday, which was all about Donald Trump, and which caused a number of US citizens to google ‘how to move to Canada’.

Every week, we assess how much traction political leaders, pundits, and media get with the people they’re trying to reach: every day Canadians. We look at the top political issues in Ottawa and assess how much they resonated with Canadians.

If you’ve just discovered us, this is technically our third episode. We have an introductory episode, where Allie talks about how this podcast got started and speaks to Navigator Chairman, Jaime Watt, about the how the idea of Political Traction came about. We also have our second episode, where go over our methodology in detail and explain just how we measure the top issues every week.

In this episode, Allie and David walk us through how Political Traction determines the top issues for the show every week.

Allie also interviews Navigator’s research lead, Chris Kelly, to discuss the methodology and how it compares to traditional research methods.

To determine the top political issues that political leaders, pundits, and media are discussing in Ottawa every week, we track Question Period, political broadcasting, and political columnists.

Every week, we look at the top political issues being discussed in Ottawa and asses how much they resonated with Canadians across the country.

If the name ‘Political Traction’ sounds familiar to you, it’s because it’s not entirely new. Political Traction is brought to you by Navigator, so you might already know that the original Political Traction was a popular segment that Navigator’s Chairman, Jaime Watt, hosted on one of Canada’s most-watched political shows. It ran for four seasons and now, we’re expanding on the original concept and bringing you this podcast.