A little over a month after clocking in a space-to-earth video chat with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen during the final days of NASA’s history-making mission to the dark side of the moon, Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet Hansen and the rest of the Artemis II crew — as well as Hansen’s fellow Canadian astronaut, Jennie Gibbons — in person this morning. (9:10 a.m.)

He’s also slated to chair a virtual huddle with his front bench team, during which he’s expected to share the latest draft of a “new accord on industrial carbon pricing” with Alberta that “would result in the fee going up to $130 a tonne by 2040,” as per The Globe and Mail.

“If approved, the agreement would dramatically roll back former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s marquee climate policy and set the stage for the construction of another oil pipeline to the British Columbia coast, as well as the expansion of crude production,” the paper notes.

“(It) would also bring the governments closer to finalizing the fine print of a memorandum of understanding signed last year that conditioned Ottawa’s support for a potential pipeline on Alberta increasing the carbon price and meeting other environmental goals.”

Citing two of its sources, the Globe notes that there are “tentative plans for (Carney) to fly to Alberta later this week to announce the deal.”

Outside the capital, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly hits the hustings on Prince Edward Island, where, according to her itinerary, she’ll share the details of new “investments (to) advance sustainable aviation technologies” during a morning stop at the Slemon Park offices of MDS Coating Technologies (9:30 a.m. AT) and take part in an on-stage “fireside chat” hosted by the Greater Charlottetown Chamber of Commerce. (1:45 p.m. AT)

Elsewhere on the Atlantic circuit, Secretary of State (Rural Development) Buckley Belanger drops by Coburn Farms to provide an update on his government’s ongoing push to boost “high-speed internet access in rural New Brunswick.” (10:30 a.m. AT)

Meanwhile, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne will join Québec International CEO Carl Viel to promote his government’s bid to “face global uncertainty with fiscal responsibility and pragmatic economic choices, as outlined in the Spring Economic Update,” as well as “concrete opportunities to support businesses and organizations in the region,” during a morning appearance in Quebec City. (9 a.m.)

Later this morning, Secretary of State (Sport) Adam van Koeverden teams up with Mississauga-area Liberal MP Iqwinder Gaheer to host a “community sport roundtable” that, as per the advisory, “will bring together diverse community sport and para-sport organizations to discuss what is working in community sport, (and) the barriers that remain,” as well as the “investments” laid out in Champagne’s latest fiscal statement. (11 a.m.)

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree starts his day in Winnipeg, where, alongside local Liberal MPs Terry Duguid, Ben Carr and Doug Eyolfson, he’ll announce a fresh wave of federal support to “keep Canadian communities safe.” (9:20 a.m. CDT)

Moving still further west, Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon will “mark the groundbreaking of a major supply chain expansion project” during a morning media availability at the Edmonton International Airport. (10:30 a.m. MT)

Rounding out the roster, Veterans Affairs Minister Jill McKnight and B.C. New Democrat MLA Ernie Klassen, who serves as parliamentary secretary to the provincial fisheries minister, will be in Richmond, B.C. to highlight “major strategic investments in Canada’s small craft harbours,” including, as the advisory notes, “improvements to the Steveston Small Craft Harbour.” (11 a.m. PST)

Also on the radar: New Democrat leader Avi Lewis heads to Saskatchewan to kick off a rolling cross-country tour that, according to the party-issued advisory, aims to “reconnect the party to its working-class base from coast to coast,” starting with three days on the hustings in the “home of Canada’s first social democratic government, led by Tommy Douglas,” which, it notes, is also “where the party’s roots were first established.”

First up: A closed-to-media visit to the Cowessess First Nation, where he’s booked in for a tête-à-tête with Chief Erica Beaudin. (3 p.m. CT)

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