Robert Fife
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"Robert Fife" is a Canada/Canadian journalist and author, who has been the CTV News Ottawa bureau chief since February 2005. Fife is host of CTV's Question Period that airs on Sundays and the executive producer of CTV's daily political show, Power Play/Power Play with Don Martin. He is a native of Chapleau, Ontario/Chapleau, Ontario. Fife has been covering politics of Canada/national politics since 1978. He began his career in the parliamentary bureau of NewsRadio and moved to United Press International of Canada in 1983. Fife worked as a senior political correspondent for The Canadian Press from 1984-1987. He spent a decade as the Ottawa Bureau Chief for Sun Media where he also wrote a regular column. In 1998, Fife joined the National Post as its Ottawa Bureau Chief. In 2002, he became the Bureau Chief for both the National Post and Postmedia News/CanWest News Services. He has won the Edward Dunlop Award for Spot News and two National Newspaper Citation of Merit for political reporting.

Fife has also authored Kim Campbell: The Making of a Politician (1993) and A Capital Scandal: Politics, Patronage and Payoff - Why Parliament Must Be Reformed (with John Warren, 1991).

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The Tories have to be able to force a vote next month. Otherwise, it gets too close to Christmas.

The big issues obviously on the table will be border issues. Mexico and Canada are concerned about some of the steps the United States is taking in terms of the identity card and requiring U.S. citizens to have passports now when they travel into Canada and come back.

I expect that the president and the prime minister will announce the resumption of formal negotiations at this summit.

That is where you will see a lot of give and take.

Unlike the June vote when the Liberals pulled out all stops to survive, this time they aren't afraid of a fall election. In fact, party sources say they are already organizing for an early election. That's one of the reasons they are rushing to put together an energy rebate program.

Canadian industry is very happy because they're going to get a big chunk of that money back that's been held by the United States.

They want to give him an opportunity to get fixed up with his diabetes, ... He'll be back on the job whenever that disease is under control.

The Liberals that I'm speaking to, they think that Harper is the best thing that they have going for them, ... They think that Harper is finished.