[NEWS] Five Canadian politics links: Harry Leslie Smith, Simard, Jolibois, Bernier, NAFTA

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• Rabble noted late last week the death, at 95, of anti-poverty activist Harry Leslie Smith.


• Amanda Simard, the only Franco-Ontarian MPP in the Ford government and representing a Francophone-majority riding, left the Ford government over the issue of its cuts to Francophone services. The Globe and Mail reported.


• MacLean's looks at Georgina Jolibois, a MPP who represents a vast riding occupying most of northern Saskatchewan, and sees how she accomplishes this.


• The National Post considers if Maxime Bernier has any chance of making his People's Party of Canada a viable political movement.


• The Canadian reaction to Trump's decision to force Congress to choose between accepting the new NAFTA deal or else risk a collapse of the entire project as the old treaty expires is muted. CBC reports.