With just hours to go until he becomes the the first sitting Canadian prime minister to visit China since his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, made the trip in 2017, Prime Minister Mark Carney is planning to remain off the radar today, according to his itinerary.

Later this afternoon, unnamed “senior government officials” are expected to provide more details on his upcoming trip — which, in addition to a four-day stay in China, will also include stops in Qatar and Davos, Switzerland — at a technical briefing this afternoon. (1 p.m.)

Meanwhile, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is set to spend the day in high-level closed-door talks with his G7 counterparts “and other like-minded countries” in Washington, D.C., including, as per his office, a meeting hosted by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on “global supply chains for critical minerals.”

Back in Canada, Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon is scheduled to join local Liberal MP Chris Bittle at an unspecified location in Niagara, Ont., to share the details of what the advisory is billing as “tariff relief for businesses impacted by trade disruptions.” (9:15 a.m.)

Solomon should also be ready to field questions on exactly how Canada intends to respond to the latest controversy to hit X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, which “has drawn global criticism over sexualized deepfakes created by X’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, which have proliferated in recent weeks,” Canadian Press notes.

“On Saturday, The Telegraph reported the U.K. government was gathering international support to respond to the controversy, with Canada sharing U.K. Prime Minister Kier Starmer’s concerns,” the wire service reported yesterday.

“Regulator Ofcom is investigating, which could lead to X facing a ban in the U.K. Just after midnight Sunday, Solomon said in a post on X that contrary to media reports, Canada is not considering a ban. Asked whether the government is considering taking any other actions, or cooperating with the U.K. or other countries on another response, a spokesperson for Solomon said more information will be available soon.”

Also on the radar: Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree is booked in for back-to-back-to-back events in and around the Greater Toronto Area, starting with a morning stop at the Malvern Family Resource Centre in Scarborough, Ont., to offer more details on his government’s ongoing push to “support at-risk youth” throughout the region. ( 1 p.m.)

He’ll also team up with Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin to provide an update on the ongoing “revitalization” of Rouge Beach at Rouge National Urban Park (1 p.m.) before making his way to Etobicoke to announce, alongside fellow GTA Liberal MP John Zerucelli, a fresh tranche of federal funding aimed at “reducing youth involvement in gangs and violent crime in Toronto’s Rexdale community.” (4 p.m.)

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