For the first time since his minority government secured a working majority in the House of Commons — although not (yet) at the committee table — Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in his front-and-centre seat in the chamber to field questions from his cross-aisle adversaries. (2:15 p.m.)

He’ll also join his Liberal colleagues as they gather for the first closed-door huddle since the party welcomed another former Conservative to their ranks: Four-term Sarnia, Ont. MP Marilyn Gladu, who announced last week that she would be joining the Liberal caucus. (10 a.m.)

Lone Green MP and party leader Elizabeth May will hit the House of Commons Foyer to share her thoughts on what the advisory describes as “the shift in the seat count and the bare majority for the Liberals” later today. (1:30 p.m.) 

On the House of Commons docket: A vote on a Conservative-initiated call for the Liberals to “adopt the Conservative plan to save Canadians 25 cents-a-litre by removing federal taxes on gas and diesel for the rest of 2026,” as well as “permanently eliminate” the clean fuel standards and industrial carbon pricing system, which is all but guaranteed to down to defeat. (3 p.m.)

After that wraps up, MPs will circle back to Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree’s proposed overhaul of the current protocols for lawful access of data for law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which began working its way to a make-or-break second-reading vote on Monday.

Later this afternoon, the spotlight will shift to Sen. Marty Beacon’s bid to establish a “national framework on sports betting advertising,” which cleared third reading in the Senate last fall and is now up for the preliminary second-reading approval of the House of commons, courtesy of its sponsor, Liberal MP Bardish Chagger.

Also on the radar: Industry Minister Mélanie Joly and visiting Finnish president Alexander Stubb will take part in an on-stage “fireside chat” that, according to the advisory, will focus on “Arctic capabilities, defence and security.” (11 a.m.)

Housing and Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson will appear before the TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMUNITIES committee as MPs continue their self-initiated probe into the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s decision to give a $206 million loan to the Mersey River wind project in Nova Scotia, which, as iPolitics’ own Aya Dufour reported earlier this month, sparked questions from opposition members over claims that several key players in the project “are connected to the Liberals,” including some who are related to former members of both the federal and provincial parties. Also on the witness list: Housing, Infrastructure and Communities deputy minister Paul Halucha, as well as senior representatives of companies involved in the project, including Roswell Development Inc. and Slate Asset Management (4:30 p.m.)

ON AND AROUND THE HILL

Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty will “celebrate” what her office notes will be the first Walking Out Ceremony — an “important rite of passage for a Cree child” — to take place on Parliament Hill. (7 a.m.)

Canadian Ophthalmological Society president-elect Nina Ahuja holds a mid-morning press conference to highlight the “importance of aligning education, training, and standards with the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care across Canada’s healthcare system” at what the advisory notes is a “critical time, as proposals to expand scope of practice for non-physician providers are being considered across multiple jurisdictions.” (8:30 a.m.)

Supporters of a “cross-partisan petition” that calls for the creation of an Independent Military Honours Review Board, including Conservative MP Blake Richards, Liberal MP Pauline Rochfort, Saskatchewan MLA Blaine McLeod, former Chief of Defence Rick Hillier and Valour in the Presence of the Enemy founder Bruce Moncur, brief reporters on the upcoming presentation of the petition in the House of Commons, which is on track to take place this afternoon. (10:30 a.m.)

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