Guilbeault peace out – iPolitics

Despite it being a House-sitting Tuesday, everyone on the Hill is probably actively counting down the days when they can disperse for the summer… But let’s address the elephant in the room.

Former cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault is reportedly resigning from Parliament after the Carney government’s latest deal with Alberta delayed a planned increase of the industrial carbon tax.

Liberal sources told iPolitics that Guilbeault could make his decision public as soon as tomorrow, though one parliamentarian said the Quebec MP hadn’t made up his mind when the two last spoke.

CBC News reported on Tuesday that Guilbeault would announce to his caucus colleagues tomorrow he was resigning as an MP. The Liberal caucus meets every Wednesday when the House is sitting.

Reaction to the news has been mixed.

When told that Guilbeault was preparing to leave, one former Liberal caucus member said “good riddance.”

Marco Vigliotti has more.

*Minister of Justice Sean Fraser speaks with reporters as he makes his way to a meeting of cabinet on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld*

On another note, Justice Minister Sean Fraser told iPolitics today that passing Bill C-16 is on his agenda, not simply to comply with the parliamentary calendar, but because it will offer protections to victims and young people.

“The real reason that I’m hoping we can accelerate the adoption of C-16 is to offer protection to people over the course of the next number of months when the House and Senate breaks for the summer,” he said before heading into Tuesday’s cabinet meeting.

Fraser added that C-16 needed to pass urgently because its changes could “potentially save lives,” pointing to measures cracking down on AI deepfakes and codifying femicide, including elevating any homicides that involve coercive control, hate, sexual violence or exploitation to first-degree.

He said failing to pass the bill before the summer would cost the government valuable time in preparing the justice system to adapt to the criminalization of coercive control, with these new measures to come into force two years after C-16 becomes law.

Vigliotti has more on this too.

*A Taiwan national flag flutters near the Taipei 101 building at the National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)*

Also, Taiwan’s representative in Canada says it is up to Ottawa to move forward on a stalled trade agreement between Taipei and Ottawa, after Conservative MPs pressed him Tuesday on whether the Carney government is deliberately delaying the deal.

“The ball is in your court, it is for you to see whether you want to move on or what kind of obstacle you want to bring up for both sides to solve,” said Harry Tseng, representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Canada at the House Committee on International Trade.

The Taiwan-Canada trade co-operation framework agreement has been ready for final signatures since April. When asked by Conservative MP Jacob Mantle if the feds are delaying it at the “behest of fear of China,” Tseng acknowledged other factors that played into the timing.

“In 2025, there was a change of government in Canada, there was an election and many things that happened in the geopolitical landscape,” Tseng said. “I have the goodwill from the counterpart I work with in the federal government.”

Sydney Ko’s got this one.

Inclusion Canada and dozens of other disability and mental health organizations are calling on Ottawa to call off a planned expansion of access to medical assistance in dying next year.

People whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness are not eligible for medical assistance in dying.

A parliamentary committee of MPs and senators has been studying whether Canada is prepared for that exclusion to end next March.

Now, 90 organizations have penned an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Health Minister Marjorie Michel and Justice Minister Sean Fraser.

They argue vulnerable people, particularly those with disabilities, are at risk and the country’s mental health care and disability supports are inadequate.

The Canadian Press has more.

In Other Headlines

Internationally

Elsewhere, a proposed peace agreement between Iran and the US seemed to remain on the table on Tuesday despite US bombings of Iranian targets – the first military action by Washington since the 8 April ceasefire.

The Iranian foreign ministry denounced the US attack – aimed at missile launchers and efforts to lay fresh mines in the strait of Hormuz – as “an act of bad faith” and “a definitive violation of the ceasefire” and said it would not leave aggression unanswered. But it did not pull out of the talks that were continuing under the joint mediation of Pakistan and Qatar.

The Iranian military announced no specific reprisals, suggesting it did not want the attack – which killed four Iranian soldiers – to disrupt the delicate last steps towards an agreement that it intends to hail as one of the great milestones in Iran’s history of resistance. Brent oil futures climbed 4% after news of the renewed fighting.

In a sign that Donald Trump recognises the conflict has reached a decisive point, he is convening a rare cabinet meeting at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. It will be only the second time Trump has visited the compound in his second term.

The Guardian has more.

The Trump administration has mass-deleted information about prosecutions tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, including cases of defendants who assaulted police officers. The removals mark the latest phase of Trump’s effort to rewrite the history of the violent riot.

Justice Department news releases that detailed guilty pleas, jury verdicts and prison sentences abruptly disappeared from government websites last week.

On social media, the Justice Department defended the move, saying, “We are proud to reverse the DOJ’s weaponization under the Biden administration. We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”

A review by NPR found that the deleted material included information about some of the most serious assaults on law enforcement that occurred that day. NPR maintains the most complete database and visual archive of the Jan. 6 prosecutions.