Dominic LeBlanc was on his feet in question period on Wednesday, cheerfully batting down opposition queries with his customary partisan enthusiasm — just two hours after announcing that he's been diagnosed with leukemia.

When it comes to politics, Justin Trudeau has demonstrated repeatedly that he's not his father's son — and he'll do it again today when he offers an official apology for members of the military and federal public servants whose careers were destroyed due to their sexual orientation.

It was particularly sweet for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on this Monday, coming at time when his government has been mired for weeks in controversies.

The controversy has morphed into a test of credibility for Morneau, Trudeau's most important minister, the architect of the Liberals' economic agenda and the chief salesman for the tax reforms.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to gradually trim the small-business tax rate to nine per cent by 2019, down from its current level of 10.5 per cent.

Justin Trudeau will belatedly honour his campaign promise to cut the small business tax rate to nine per cent as his government scrambles to undo the damage from weeks of controversy.

Pessimism about the fate of NAFTA is mounting amid dismay that the U.S. wants to impose stringent new American content requirements on vehicles that are allowed duty-free movement across North America

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is proposing to levy a federal excise tax on recreational marijuana once it becomes legal next July, with the provinces and territories receiving half the revenue.

Canada is pushing for the inclusion of enforceable, progressive labour standards in a rewritten North American Free Trade Agreement.

Canada's chief negotiator says solid progress is being made in talks to rewrite the NAFTA, but it's too soon to tell if a deal can be reached by the year-end deadline set by the United States.