The West Block

INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR, SEXUAL HARASSMENT, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT...IN RECENT MONTHS WE HAVE HEARD FROM MANY WOMEN WHO HAVE COME FORWARD TO TELL THEIR STORY. AND LAST WEEK THOSE STORIES HIT THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE IN THIS COUNTRY FORCING THREE POLITICAL LEADERS TO RESIGN. HOW IS THIS AFFECTING POLITICS AND THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE?  PLUS A CONVERSATION WITH NEO CONSERVATIVE WRITER AND POLITICAL DAVID FRUM ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK: TRUMPOCACRY-THE CORRUPTION OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC.

GUESTS: LISA RAITT, DEPUTY CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER; SUSAN DELACOURT, I POLITICS; SUPRIYA DWIVEDI, GLOBAL NEWS RADIO; DAVID FRUM, AUTHOR 'TRUMPOCRACY-THE CORRUPTION OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC'

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Changes to the Canada Summer Grants program mean organizations have to check a box when it comes to reproductive rights, will there be more changes for federal funding?  Round six of the North America Free Trade Agreement negotiations get under way Tuesday in Montreal, how critical is this round of talks?  Plus we'll unpack the politics of NAFTA and the Prime Minister's trip to Davos, Switzerland.

Guests: Patty Hajdu, Employment Minister; Ambassador Michael Froman, Former U.S. Trade Representative; David Akin, Chief Political Correspondent Global News; Bob Fife, Ottawa Bureau Chief Globe and Mail

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We begin the show this week with Canada's Foreign Minister on what is at stake in the next round of the NAFTA negoations later this month in Montreal and what is our plan B if the talks fail.  Then two experts on the North Korean crisis plus a conversation with Canada's former Ethics Commissioner on her report on Trudeau's 2016 vacation and advice to her successor.

Guests: Chrystia Freeland, Foreign Affairs Minister; Marius Grinius, Former Ambassador to North and South Korea, Bonnie Jenkins, Former State Department Official in Obama Administration

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This week we begin with the uproar in Washington with Michael Wolff's new book, Fire and Fury, based on President Trump his actions in the White House.  We talk to one republican strategist who is hopeful this will allow traditional republican party members to move forward and the extreme elements of the party will have less influence over the President.  We then talk to the President of the Eurasia Group about geo political risks for 2018 and what this means for Canada.  Plus another in our occasional series, Food for Thought, and this week we talk to an expectant mother on the hill.

Guests: Michael Steel, Republican Strategist; Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group President; Karina Gould, Democratic Institutions Minister

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This week we talk to Conservative Party Leader about why he has called for Canada's Finance Minister to resign.  Then has the government reset its relations with the Indigenous community as promised? And Food for Thought, this week in our occasional series we'll talk to NDP MP Nathan Cullen about politics and why he sought office at such an early age.

Guests: Andrew Scheer, Conservative Party Leader; Perry Bellegarde, Assembly of First Nations National Chief; Nathan Cullen, NDP-British Columbia

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