English | Français This week on Talk Politics Ken Rockburn speaks with Franco Frattini, the European Union's Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security. Frattini talks about how the the EU is handling the its own issues surrounding extraordinary renditions, eerily similar to the case of Maher Arar, asylum shopping and human trafficking. Frattini was formerly Italy's Foreign Minister under Silvio Berlusconi.

Also on the program Ken speaks with author John Boyko about his latest book "Into the Hurricane" that documents the rise of the CCF in depression-era Canada and how the movement, which eventually became the NDP, was soon to become Canada's most popular party. Feeling threatened by the new movement, existing parties on the right, Liberals and Progressive Conservatives and parties to the left, the Communist Party of Canada, launched attacks on the CCF that soon destroyed any credibility and any momentum the party was able to muster. By 1949 the CCF was close to being but a memory. Boyko is the History and Social Science Curriculum Leader at Lakefield College in Ontario.

And finally Ken talks to political commentator, observer and professor Andrew Cohen about the season's crop of political books. Canadians haven't had such a bounty of political literature in years, with people such as Alan Gotlieb, Eddie Goldenberg, Adrienne Clarkson, John English, Hugh Segal all writing new books. Andrew Cohen offers his analysis of the season's best.