With just one day to go before Prime Minister Mark Carney hosts a high-level huddle with his fellow first ministers, provincial and territorial premiers head behind closed doors for a closed-door meeting of the Council of the Federation, which is slated to get rolling in Ottawa later this morning.

For his part, Carney is also booked in for one-on-one chats with British Columbia Premier David Eby (12:45 p.m.) and Yukon Premier Currie Dixon (4 p.m.), as well as a three-way tête-à-tête with both Eby and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (1:20 p.m.), before hosting what his office is billing as a “First Ministers’ working dinner” this evening.

As per his daily itinerary, the prime minister will join his fellow Liberals at their weekly caucus confab, but is not currently expected to be in his front-and-centre seat when the House of Commons reopens for business this afternoon.

Back in the chamber, MPs are set to vote on the first Conservative-initiated opposition motion of the year — a non-binding motion put forward by Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs that calls on the government to “immediately” introduce a Canadian Sovereignty Act to “re-establish Canada as a competitive, resource-producing nation” by repealing the current impact assessment laws, ending the oil tanker moratorium and removing the federal industrial carbon tax, as well as adopting other policies included in the Conservative campaign platform, which is unlikely to pass.

Also on the radar: Justice Minister Sean Fraser heads to the JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS committee to make the case for his proposal to overhaul the bail and sentencing system, which, as iPolitics’ Marco Vigliotti has reported, is now on the fast track to wrap up a lightning-round review as early as next week, courtesy of a rare cross-aisle deal between the government and the Conservatives that has allocated just three meetings to go through the fine print of the bill before sending it back to the House of Commons. (4:30 p.m.)

ON AND AROUND THE HILL

Public Service Alliance of Canada president Sharon DeSousa hits the West Block press theatre to highlight the “workplace adjustment notices” that “thousands of dedicated public sector workers have received over the past several weeks that their positions could be cut as part of (Carney’s) plan to slash 30,000 public sector jobs” before joining “PSAC members and allies” at a midday rally in downtown Ottawa. (11:30 a.m.)

Interim New Democrat leader Don Davies will “stand alongside” fellow New Democrat MPs to share their party’s “priorities” for the new sitting. (11:30 a.m.)

Liberal MP Lisa Hepfner teams up with the National Association of Women and the Law to promote her backbench bid to “give children a voice in divorce proceedings,”  as well as “mitigate the impact of coercive control and domestic violence,” which is up for a final round of debate before it will be added to the queue for a make-or-break second-reading vote next week. (1 p.m.)

OUTSIDE THE PRECINCT

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand will deliver a keynote speech at the Nordic-Canadian Arctic Symposium. (9 a.m.)

IN THE CHAMBER

Later this afternoon, MPs will kick off the opening round of debate on legislation to implement the “comprehensive” trade deal with Indonesia that was finalized last fall, which is one of several trade-related bills cited by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in his pre-sitting letter to the prime minister that his party would be “happy to fast track through all stages,” although it’s not clear if that view is shared by other opposition parties.

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