Amid mounting pressure from the Conservatives for his government to release the full details of the tentative Canada – U.S. trade deal that he rejected last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to start the week with a midday visit to the Chantier Davie shipyard in Lévis, Québec, where, alongside Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette, as well as his Quebec lieutenant, Government Transformation Minister Joël Lightbound, he’ll announce what his office is billing as “new investments to defend our waters and strengthen our trade routes.” (12 p.m.)

During the anticipated back-and-forth with the media, both leaders will likely field questions on Carney’s decision to walk away from the talks just hours before the White House-imposed deadline to reach a deal to dodge the sweeping new levies that U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened to impose on billions of dollars in Canadian exports, which subsequently came into effect at one minute after midnight on Saturday.

For his part, Carney should also be prepared to be asked about a fresh request from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for an early start to the fall parliamentary sitting, which is currently not slated  to get underway until Sept. 21.

Also making the rounds in Quebec today: Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne will hear from “key economic stakeholders,” as well as the leaders of Quebec’s “economic development agencies,” during a closed-door pre-budget consultation session in Montreal that, according to his office, will be followed by a “media scrum,” where he can expect to be quizzed on the impact that the latest surge in cross-border trade tensions could have on the fiscal roadmap that he intends to present to Canadians later this fall. (9 a.m.)

Later this afternoon, Canadian Identity Minister Marc Miller — whose sweeping mandate, it’s worth noting, includes language and culture, both of which were cited by Carney as examples of areas where the final round of American asks went too far — is set to unveil “major funding” for an unnamed Montreal-area “cultural organization” to “develop a new multipurpose hall.” (2 p.m.)

Elsewhere on the circuit:

• Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson will join local Liberal MP Peter Fragiskatos for a “clean energy investment announcement” at an unnamed location in London, Ont. (9 a.m.), with Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali booked in for a separate reveal related to “clean energy funding” in Red Deer, Alta., later  this afternoon. (2 p.m. MT)
• Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu teams up with Calgary-area Liberal MP Corey Hogan to launch the Transportation and Supply Chain Workforce Alliance — which, as per the notice, will “tackle critical labour shortages and representation gaps across Canada’s multimodal supply chains, spanning road, rail, air, marine, and warehousing”— during an afternoon visit to the Bissett School of Business at Mount Royal University. (1:40 p.m. MT)

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