PrimeTime Politics This Week
June 19, 2021
Watch this week’s highlights from CPAC’s flagship show, PrimeTime Politics, the source for political roundup and analysis of policy issues. Get an insider’s perspective from Ottawa featuring interviews and guest panels from the Hill. Former Quebec premier and member of the Task Force on Public Health and the US-Canada border Jean Charest discusses the government’s decision to postpone the re-opening of the border for at least another month. MPs Arif Virani (L), James Cumming (CPC) and Peter Julian (NDP) give their own take on the re-opening of the border with the United States and Parliament’s declaration that the Public Health Agency of Canada was in contempt for failing to produce documents related to the firing of two scientists from the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. Journalists Tonda MacCharles of the Toronto Star and Ian Bailey of the Globe and Mail look back on an eventful week on Parliament Hill that saw a censure motion and a contempt motion pass in the House and the rookie leader of the Green Party, Annamie Paul face criticism for her leadership. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses Canadians on the federal government’s response to the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic.
