With just days to go before the House of Commons reopens for business, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will be in North Vancouver to launch the next phase in his party’s ongoing bid to “pressure the Carney Liberals and the NDP” to back a non-binding Conservative motion that challenges the government to “put private property first” in the wake of a landmark B.C. court ruling on Aboriginal title claims. (9 a.m. PT)

If adopted, the motion — which was debated just before the chamber shut down for a two-week hiatus — would call on the government to instruct federal lawyers to “aggressively defend property rights in all litigation” and “publish a plan within 30 days to protect property rights for Canadians affected by the Cowichan decision and Musqueam agreement (with) specific commitments and timelines.”

It would also create a new special committee “with the mandate to study all legal, constitutional and political steps that can be taken to protect private property rights in Canada,” which, as per the terms outlined in the motion, would be chaired by a Conservative MP and would hold “at least 12 meetings” before June 19, which would also serve as the deadline to file an “interim report” on its findings.

The motion is currently in the queue to go to a vote on Monday evening.

Back in the precinct, Justice Minister Sean Fraser will make the case for his contentious proposal to expand and update Canada’s anti-hate laws during a rare mid-hiatus appearance before the Senate HUMAN RIGHTS committee, which, as previously reported by iPolitics, agreed to meet during the two-week recess in an effort to get the bill back to the main Upper House chamber for a final vote before regular parliamentary proceedings wind down for the summer. (8 a.m.)

Also on the witness list: Representatives from the Métis National Council, Anishinabek Nation, Chiefs of Ontario, Black Opportunity Fund, Black-Manitobans Chamber of Commerce, Anglican Church of Canada and the African United Baptist Association.

Meanwhile, after jetting to Vancouver for a tête-à-tête with B.C. Premier David Eby yesterday, Prime Minister Mark Carney has no scheduled public events on his itinerary today, but a full contingent of front benchers is once again set to fan out across the country in support of their government’s rolling agenda — including, but not limited to new funding initiatives detailed in Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s inaugural Spring Economic Update:

• Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson drops by the Port Mouton Harbour in Queens County, N.S., to highlight what the advisory describes as “major strategic investments” in small craft harbours across Canada. (9:30 a.m. ADT) 
• Elsewhere on the Atlantic circuit, Secretary of State (Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions) Wayne Long joins New Brunswick labour minister Jean-Claude D’Amours at the Fredericton offices of Forest NB to announce a fresh tranche of support for “workers whose jobs have been directly or indirectly impacted by global tariffs.” (11 a.m. ADT)
• Back in the Greater Toronto Area, Secretary of State (Labour) John Zerucelli unveils new federal funding to boost “growth, innovation and competitiveness” for local businesses throughout the region. (11:30 a.m.)
• Later this afternoon, his fellow GTA Liberal MP Adam van Koeverden, who also serves as Secretary of State (Sport) and freshly-elected Toronto-area Liberal MP Danielle Martin will “highlight recent sport investments” listed in the spring update that are “focused on building stronger and safer communities” during a press conference at an unspecified location somewhere in the city. (4:30 p.m.)
• Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty is booked in for a mid-morning funding reveal alongside representatives of the Sovereign Keewatin Yahthi Nations in Winnipeg that, as per the notice, aims to “get major projects built faster.” (10:15 a.m. CT)
• Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski and Secretary of State (Rural Development) Buckley Belanger stop by DynaIndustrial GP Inc. in Sherwood, Sask., to share the details of new federal support for “Saskatchewan businesses impacted by tariffs.” (2 p.m. MDT)
• Moving still further west, Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald makes the rounds in Vancouver and Burnaby, B.C., where, as per his office, he’s slated to host a “roundtable consultation” with “primary agriculture and agri-food producers (and) food processors,” as well as “tour a food processing facility, a food bank and get a first-hand look at port operations at Canada’s largest port.”
• Housing and Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson joins a trio of Yukon ministers, including his territorial counterpart Scott Kent, as well as Yukon’s lone federal MP, Liberal Brendan Hawley, for a mid-morning infrastructure announcement at the Yukon River Viewing Wharf in Whitehorse. (11 a.m. YT)
• Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is also set to announce new support for “tariff-impacted workers” during a morning media availability with Nunavut family services minister Gwen Healey Akearok and local Liberal MP Lori Idlout at the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in Iqaluit. (9:30 a.m.)

Rounding out the roster, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand holds a “virtual news conference” from Estonia. (10:45 a.m.)

ON AND AROUND THE HILL

Canadian Automobile Dealers Association chief economist Charles Bernard teams up with Canadian Truck Dealers executive director Kevin Disher to urge the government to “put practical regulations in place to ensure continued access to trucks and transportation equipment across North America” — and, according to the advisory, outline the “risks that regulatory uncertainty could pose to Canada’s supply chains, businesses, and consumer affordability.” (9 a.m.)

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