Two weeks down. Nine more to go.

Here鈥檚 what happened during the second week of the 2015 federal election campaign.

MONDAY

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper started the week to make it illegal for Canadians to travel to areas controlled by terrorist organizations.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair was busy defending his stance on a proposed pipeline, after climate change protesters

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, meanwhile, was forced to an accusation that one of his Quebec candidates once supported sovereignty.

TUESDAY

Quebec鈥檚 biggest union promised to stop helping the Bloc Quebecois in favour of the NDP. Professor why that matters.

Harper for police to root out illegal drug labs and grow-ops, plus a new helpline for concerned parents.

Trudeau promised a merit-based Senate appointment process.

Mulcair, who wants to abolish the Senate, said he found it 鈥渋nteresting that Mr. Harper has decided to try to hide out in the North Pole during the Mike Duffy trial this week.鈥�

WEDNESDAY

As the Sen. Mike Duffy鈥檚 trial resumed in Ottawa, that he did not know about the $90,000 cheque his former chief of staff Nigel Wright wrote to help pay back the senator鈥檚 expenses.

Trudeau told a Saskatchewan crowd the Liberals would grow the economy, not from the 鈥渢op down鈥� but from the  leading to some for what Muclair called a 鈥渢ouchy-feely slogan.鈥�

THURSDAY

that he was 鈥渉elping out鈥� by giving Duffy $90,000. 鈥淚 was doing a good deed," he said, before quoting the Bible.

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Trudeau, still in Saskatchewan, promised $2.6 billion of new spending over four years that he says would help close the education children from other Canadian kids.

FRIDAY

Mulcair announced his party former Saskatchewan finance minister Andrew Thomson as the candidate for the Toronto riding where the Conservative candidate is Finance Minister Joe Oliver.

Mulcair also said the NDP would protect the parliamentary budget officer from political interference.The Liberals, meanwhile, launched a website calling the NDP鈥檚 claims 鈥渕isleading.鈥�

Harper finished the week where he discussed the possibility of a missile defence system and promised to pay for the $14-million paving of a stretch of highway.