CTV Question Period Podcast

Vassy Kapelos is joined by Former Chief of the Defence Staff (Ret’d) Gen. Tom Lawson, Industry Minister Melanie Joly, B.C. Premier David Eby, Former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and a panel of political strategists.

Vassy Kapelos is joined by Former Canadian ambassador to Jordan, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates Arif Lalani, Former Middle East analyst at the Department of National Defence Thomas Juneau, Former Prime Minister Joe Clark, Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner and a panel of political strategists.

Vassy Kapelos is joined by Government House Leader Steve MacKinnon, Conservative Leader in the House of Commons Andrew Scheer, Former National Chief of Assembly of First Nations Perry Bellegarde and a panel of political strategists.

Vassy Kapelos is joined by International Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, Chinese Ambassador Wang Di, Conservative MP-elect Gérard Deltell and a panel of political strategists.

What lies ahead for Prime Minister Mark Carney after winning a minority government? Vassy Kapelos is joined by political strategists, the California governor, former ambassadors to the U.S. and political reporters to discuss this and other political issues.

Shock and sorrow have gripped Vancouver after a driver used their SUV as a weapon. Vassy is joined by the Sunday Strategy Session and CTV’s Abigail Bimman, Rachel Aiello and pollster Nik Nanos.

The federal election campaign is enterning its final stretch. Vassy is joined by the Sunday Strategy Session and pollsters David Coletto of Abacus Data and Andrew Enns of Leger.

Donald Trump and his trade wars continue to dominate the Canadians election. Vassy is joined by the Sunday Strategy Session, a special tariff panel with Amanda Lang, Ali Velshi and Jason Kenney, and Nik Nanos.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s global trade war is roiling markets and overshadowing the Canadian election. Vassy is joined by the Sunday Strategy Session, Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. David MacNaughton and former national security and intelligence adviser Jody Thomas, and a special election edition of The Scrum.

U.S. President Donald Trump upended the first week of the Canadian federal election. Vassy is joined by the Sunday Strategy Session, reporters on the campaign trail, former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Derek Burney and a special edition of The Scrum.

Federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc discusses Trump's actions against Trump, B.C. Premier David Eby on countermeasures being taken against the U.S., political strategists weighs in on the Liberal leadership race; plus, the Sunday Scrum panel discusses the federal political landscape.

March 2: Reaction to the fiery meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy.

Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. discusses the efforts being taken to secure Canada’s border; a one-on-one interview with Liberal candidate Karina Gould; Sir Richard Sherriff on the impact Trump will have on the Ukraine-Russia war; plus, political strategist share their take on what to watch for in the upcoming Liberal leadership debates.

Premier Andrew Furey says Canadians have to stand firm on their sovereignty; Germany’s ambassador to Canada Tjorven Bellmann weighs in on Europe’s response to Ukraine and NATO defence spending; David Cohen, former U.S. ambassador to Canada, comments on Trump’s push to make Canada the 51st state; Strategists Scott Reid, Shakir Chambers and Kathleen Monk discuss how the political parties are doing amid the Liberal leadership campaign; Robert Fife, Nik Nanos and Robert Benzie discuss how Mark Carney leading the Liberal leadership race, and the threat to the Conservatives.

Industry Minister Francois Philippe Champagne, Former BoC governor Stephen Poloz Rubicon, Germany's defence chief Gen. Carsten Breuer, CTV News Political Analyst Scott Reid, Monk + Associates' Kathleen Monk, former cabinet minister James Moore, La Presse’s Joël-Denis Bellavance, The Globe and Mail’s Stephanie Levitz and pollster Nik Nanos.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, Industry Minister Francois Philippe Champagne, Rubicon Strategy's Kory Teneycke, CTV News Political Analyst Scott Reid, Monk + Associates' Kathleen Monk, CEO of Abacus Data David Coletto, senior reporter for The Globe and Mail Stephanie Levitz and Queen's Park bureau chief for the Toronto Star Rob Benzie.

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, Former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Rubicon Strategy's Kory Teneycke, CTV News Political Analyst Scott Reid, Monk + Associates' Kathleen Monk, Ottawa Bureau Chief for the Globe and Mail Robert Fife, Queen's Park bureau chief for the Toronto Star Rob Benzie and President of the Angus Reid Institute Shachi Kurl.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with CTV News Political Analyst Scott Reid, Monk + Associates' Kathleen Monk, Rubicon Strategy's Kory Teneycke, Ottawa Bureau Chief for the Globe and Mail Robert Fife, chief data scientist and founder of Nanos Research Nik Nanos and executive communications officer at Global Public Afffairs Hannah Thibedeau.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, Former finance minister Bill Morneau, Rubicon Strategy's Kory Teneycke, CTV News Political Analyst Scott Reid, Monk + Associates' Kathleen Monk, The Globe and Mail's Robert Fife, reporter for The Canadian Press Nojoud Al Mallees and Nik Nanos with Nanos Research.

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Cohen, Rubicon Strategy's Kory Teneycke, CTV News Political Analyst Scott Reid, Monk + Associates' Kathleen Monk, reporter for The Canadian Press Nojoud Al Mallees, Ottawa Bureau Chief for La Presse Joel-Denis Bellavance, BNN Bloomberg's Paul Bagnell.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Industry Minister Champagne, CTV News Political Analyst Scott Reid, Monk + Associates' Kathleen Monk, James Moore, journalists Robert Fife, Nojoud Al Mallees and pollster Nik Nanos. 

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Women and Gender and Youth Minister Marci Ien, Ohio Republican Representative Mike Turner, Former Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Rubicon Strategy's Kory Teneycke, CTV News Political Analyst Scott Reid, Monk + Associates' Kathleen Monk.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, Former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Derek Burney, Monk + Associates Kathleen Monk, CTV News political analyst Scott Reid, Rubcon Strategy's Kory Teneycke, Ottawa Bureau Chief for La Presse Joel-Denis Bellavance, Senior political reporter for The Globe and Mail Stephanie Levitz and The Canadian Press reporter Nojoud Al Mallees.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Canada's ambassador to the United States Kirsten Hillman, Former Minister of Labour of Canada Rona Ambrose, Former Minister of Finance of Canada Bill Morneau and Polish ambassador to Canada Witold Dzielski. 

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. David McNaughton and former U.S. ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft; Monk + Associates Kathleen Monk, CTV News political analyst Scott Reid, Rubcon Strategy's Tory Teneycke, former Conservative cabinet minister James Moore, Senator Hassan Yussuff, Author Stephen Maher, The Globe and Mail's Marieke Walsh and the Toronto Star's Robert Benzie. 

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme, N.S. Liberal MP Wayne Long, CTV News political analyst Scott Reid, Monk + Associates' Kathleen Monk, Rubicon Strategy's Kory Teneycke, former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Frank McKenna and former U.S. ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman. 

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with India's High Commissioner to Canada Sanjay Kumar Verma, Canada's former high commissioner to India Cameron MacKay, former director of communications to the late Jack Layton Kathleen Munk, Doug Ford's former campaign manager Kory Teneycke and former communications director Scott Reid. 

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Monk + Associates' Kathleen Monk, former cabinet minister James Moore, CTV News political analyst Scott Reid, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, former Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe, CTV News political analyst Eric Ham, The Washington Post reporter Aaron Blake and Laura Dawson of Future Borders Coalition. 

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Cohen, Government House Leader Karina Gould, NDP House Leader Peter Julian, Monk + Associates' Kathleen Monk, Rubicon Strategy's Kory Teneycke, CTV News Political Analyst Scott Reid, Oyster Group Vice President Shakir Chambers, CTV News Special Correspondent Evan Solomon, CTV News Political Analyst Eric Ham and The Globe and Mail's Shannon Proudfoot.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Quebec lieutenant Jean-Yves Duclos, Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen, Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer, NDP House Leader Peter Julian, Monk + Associates' Kathleen Monk, Rubicon Strategy's Kory Teneycke, CTV News Political Analyst Scott Reid, journalists Joel Denis bellavance, Nojoud Al Mallees and pollster Nik Nanos.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Government House Leader Karina Gould, Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer, NDP House Leader Peter Julian, CTV News' U.S. political analyst Eric Ham, Monk + Associates' Kathleen Monk, Rubicon Strategy's Kory Teneycke, CTV News Political Analyst Scott Reid.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Cohen, Housing Minister Sean Fraser, NDP strategist Kathleen Monk, Doug Ford's former campaign manager Korey Teneycke, and former Liberal campaign strategist David Herle. 

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly,  Canada's chief of defence staff Gen. Wayne Eyre, former NDP strategist Kathleen Monk, Doug Ford's former campaign manager Korey Teneycke, and political analyst Scott Reid.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Industry Minister Francois-Phillipe Champagne, Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman, BC United Leader Kevin Falcon, Monk + Associates' Kathleen Monk, Rubicon Strategy's Kory Teneycke, CTV News Political Analyst Scott Reid, The Hill Times' Charelle Evelyn, Abacus Data CEO David Coletto, The Globe and Mail's Robert Fife

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Persons with Disability Minister Kamal Khera, Public Service Alliance of Canada President Chris Aylward, NBC's chief political analyst Chuck Todd, former advisor to Paul Martin David Herle,former NDP strategist Kathleen Monk, Doug Ford's former campaign manager Korey Teneycke, journalists Nojoud Al Mallees, Marieke Walsh, Joel-Denis Bellavance.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Health Minister Mark Holland, Polish President Andrzej Duda, Japan's ambassador to Canada Kanji Yamanouchi, former NDP strategist Kathleen Monk, Doug Ford's former campaign manager Korey Teneycke, and political analyst Scott Reid.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Minister of Small Business Rechie Valdez, Deputy Conservative Leader Melissa Lantsman and NDP Finance Critic Don Davies, Vanity Fair special correspondent Brian Stelter and Atlantic staff writer David Frum, former NDP strategist Kathleen Monk, Doug Ford's former campaign manager Korey Teneycke, and political analyst Scott Reid.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Israeli Ambassador to Canada Iddo Moed, former U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson, Housing Minister Sean Fraser, former NDP strategist Kathleen Monk, Doug Ford's former campaign manager Korey Teneycke, and political analyst Scott Reid.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with House Leader Steven MacKinnon, former politicians Jean Charest and Bll Morneau, retired Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire Doug Ford's former campaign manager Korey Teneycke, political analyst Scott Reid and former NDP strategist Kathleen Monk, journalists Robert Fife, Judy Trinh and Joël-Denis Bellavance.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Liberal MP Adam van Koeverden and Conservative MP Andrew, Russian human rights activist Evgenia Kara-Murza, Doug Ford's former campaign manager Korey Teneycke, political analyst Scott Reid and former NDP strategist Kathleen Monk, journalists, Marieke Walsh, Joël-Denis Bellavance and Charelle Evelyn.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, Doug Ford's former campaign manager Korey Teneycke, political analyst Scott Reid, former NDP strategist Kathleen Monk, Globe and Mail's Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife, Canadian Press journalist Nojoud Al Mallees and Queen's Park Bureau Chief for the Toronto Robert Benzi.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, Ex-Canadian ambassador Frank McKenna and ex-Conservative leader Erin O'Toole, Doug Ford's former campaign manager Korey Teneycke, political analyst Scott Reid and former NDP strategist Kathleen Monk. 

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with PBO Yves Giroux, Latvia Defence Minister Andris Spruds, David Coletto of Abacus Data and Shachi Kurl of the Angus Reid Institute, Doug Ford's former campaign manager Korey Teneycke, political analyst Scott Reid and former NDP strategist Kathleen Monk, journalists Stephanie Levitz, Rob Fife, and Nojoud Al Mallees.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with former prime ministers Joe Clark and Jean Chretien, former CTV News Chief Anchor Lloyd Robertson, former CBC Chief Anchor Peter Mansbridge, Botler whistleblowers Ritika Dutt and Amir Morv, Doug Ford's former campaign manager Korey Teneycke, political analyst Scott Reid and former NDP strategist Kathleen Monk.

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with International Trade Minister Mary Ng, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith, Doug Ford's former campaign manager Korey Teneycke, political analyst Scott Reid, former NDP leader Tom Mulcair, Angus Reid Institute President Shachi Kurl, Toronto Star Queen's Park bureau chief Rob Benzie and Ottawa bureau chief for La Presse Joel-Denis Bellavance 

Host Vassy Kapelos discusses the week's top political stories with U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Cohen, Government House Leader Steve Mackinnon, former Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz, business advisor Paul Manley, former NDP strategist Kathleen Monk, Conservative strategist Kory Teneycke, Liberal pollster David Hurley. Charelle Evelyn from The Hill Times, Joel-Denis Bellavance of La Presse and The Globe and Mail's Marieke Walsh.