A panel of senior Privy Council officials, Canada’s chief librarian and archivist Leslie Weir and Treasury Board Secretariat chief information officer Dominic Rochon are all on deck for an afternoon session with ACCESS TO INFORMATION, PRIVACY AND ETHICS members as the committee continues to explore the current state of access to information in Canada. (3:30 p.m.)

Earlier in the day, SCIENCE AND RESEARCH members will hold back-to-back panel discussions with academic and legal experts as part of their self-initiated investigation into Artificial Intelligence. (11 a.m.)

Over at INTERNATIONAL TRADE, MPs are going through the fine print of a proposed new trade deal with Indonesia, with senior departmental officials from Finance, Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development and Industry, as well as the Canada Border Services Agency, expected to be at the table. (11 a.m.)

Also this morning: Assembly of First Nations Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs grand chief Kyra Wilson and Toronto Metropolitan University Indigenous Governance Chair Pam Palmater will provide their perspectives on Indian Act registration issues at INDIGENOUS AND NORTHERN AFFAIRS. (8:15 a.m.)

Later today, Canadian Security Intelligence Service officials René Ouellette and Paul Lynd will brief FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT members on Canada’s Arctic strategy. (3:30 p.m.)

Elsewhere on the afternoon circuit, OFFICIAL LANGUAGES members circle back to their examination of regulations related to the “advancement of equality of status and use of English and French” with senior Treasury Board officials, as well as the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada.

Rounding out the roster, Conservative MP Frank Caputo heads to STATUS OF WOMEN to provide an overview of his backbench bid to tighten the rules on bail and conditional release for people arrested or charged with intimate partner violence, which cleared second-reading last fall with the unanimous support of the House of Commons. (3:30 p.m.)

Committee highlights courtesy of our friends at iPoliticsINTEL.