Politics This Morning: Trudeau to sit down with Pallister, as Singh, Hussen hit podcast festival

Happy Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presided over an informal caucus meeting on the Hill, giving new and old MPs an opportunity to reflect on the campaign. The caucus meeting featured an open-mic session, with members and candidates asked to share lessons learned from the campaign, including why the Liberals failed to pick up any seats in Alberta or Saskatchewan. Former MP Ralph Goodale, the lone Liberal in Saskatchewan in the last Parliament, told reporters the party "will be examining every procedural or structural option for dealing with the fact that the result of the election did not give him members of those two provinces." Mr. Trudeau has yet to announce when he plans to convene the new Parliament. He's holding off until he meets next week with opposition leaders for one-on-one meetings to decide when to kick off the start of the new session. The PM is scheduled to meet today with Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister on West Block. Their meeting follows Mr. Trudeau's sit-down with P.E.I. Premier Dennis King, his first meeting with premiers since the election. The two discussed the Trudeau government's plans to strengthen health care services, including for mental health, and its efforts to tackle climate change. All the premiers, meanwhile, will be holding their own meeting next month in Toronto. Ontario Premier Doug Ford is expected to host the confab, where talk of national unity is likely to dominate the agenda. In Toronto, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen are sitting down for a live taping of Deconstructed, a podcast hosted by the Intercept's Mehdi Hasan, at Hot Docs' podcast festival in Toronto tonight. Mr. Hasan is moderating a discussion on whether Canada's "reputation as a shining beacon" of multiculturalism is deserved. They'll likely face questions about the PM's handling of the blackface/brownface scandal. Mr. Singh widely drew praise from pundits for his response to the news that Mr. Trudeau donned blackface and brownface on at least three occasions. Despite that, and a series of other scandals, a former Canadian diplomat says Mr. Trudeau's reputation internationally can weather whatever criticism comes his way, in the face of other issues plaguing his G7 peers. In other news, Liberal minister Maryam Monsef and former MP Matt DeCourcey, who lost the riding of Fredericton to the Greens' Jenica Atwin, announced their engagement during the caucus meeting. Re-elected Liberal ministers Carolyn Bennett and Jim Carr share a laugh as they head to the Sir John A. Macdonald building for the national caucus meeting on Nov. 7. Despite his recent cancer diagnosis, Mr. Carr was among the more than 100 MPs, former MPs, and candidates who gathered for the informal meeting. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade Elections Canada has officially wrapped up the three court-ordered recounts, upholding the results on election night. Liberal minister Jean-Yves Duclos maintains his hold on the riding of Quebec, beating his Bloc challenger by 325 votes. In B.C., the NDP conceded the race in Port Moody-Coquitlam to the Conservatives, which won the race by an even tighter margin of 153 votes. Senators on the Internal Economy Committee, who met for a (partial) closed-door meeting yesterday, are split over whether to offer financial compensation to former Senator Don Meredith who resigned amid allegations of sexual harassment. The Hill Times

Politics This Morning

Politics This Morning: Trudeau to sit down with Pallister, as Singh, Hussen hit podcast festival

Plus, Liberal minister Jean-Yves Duclos maintains his hold on the riding of Quebec after a court-ordered recount. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen sit down with the Intercept's Mehdi Hasan.

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Politics This Morning

Politics This Morning: Trudeau to sit down with Pallister, as Singh, Hussen hit podcast festival

Plus, Liberal minister Jean-Yves Duclos maintains his hold on the riding of Quebec after a court-ordered recount. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen sit down with the Intercept's Mehdi Hasan.

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