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PrimeTime Politics Weekend
December 4, 2009
Host Martin Stringer is joined by Peter Harder (the president of the Canada China Business Council) and Colin Robertson (from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University) to review Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit to China. Martin discusses Mr. Harper’s visit in more detail with journalists Louise Elliott and John Geddes. Discussion topics also include the political fallout from the introduction of the harmonized sales tax (HST) in Ontario and British Columbia. In Shanghai, China, Mr. Harper delivers a speech about Canada–China relations. In Montreal, Que., Environment Minister Jim Prentice discusses Canada’s participation in the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, scheduled for December 7–18. Later, Mr. Prentice takes questions from the media. Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff speaks with reporters about his party’s environmental platform. At a meeting of the House of Commons committee on government operations and estimates, Treasury Board president Vic Toews presents the board’s 2009–2010 supplementary estimates. Mr. Toews and his associates are then questioned by committee members, including Martha Hall Findlay (Liberal), Pat Martin (NDP), and Richard Nadeau (Bloc Québécois).