The Parliament will be a little quieter in the next two weeks, as the House goes on a short break. But here’s the latest:

A one year limit, a new consultation hub for Indigenous groups, and pipelines no longer under the authority of the Impact Assessment Agency – these are some of the main changes the Carney government is proposing to speed up major projects.

Ottawa released proposed changes in a discussion paper on Friday, and intends to consult with the wider public in weeks ahead before introducing legislation.

As iPolitics reported Thursday, the government is contemplating a move to enable concurrent permitting, meaning the assessment process and the permitting process would happen at the same time.

The Impact Assessment Agency would be asked to complete its review and decision-making process within a year, with that target being enshrined in the law.

Already, the federal government was leading consultations with Indigenous groups on how they would be affected by the two-year timeline set out in the Building Canada Act.

Aya Dufour has more. 

The Senate legal committee has completed its review of the Liberals’ bail and sentencing bill with some tweaks, including to the coming in force period for provisions changing youth criminal justice laws.

That amendment — moved by Sen. Pierre J. Dalphond, the bill’s sponsor — has the backing of the government, meaning it’s expected to win the support of the House of Commons when the bill returns.

When asked during a committee meeting on Thursday, Dalphond said the amendment was prompted by concerns from provincial governments, which are responsible for implementing the changes.

With clause-by-clause review completed, the bill will now move to the Senate for third reading. However, the committee’s steering committee is preparing a report on the bill that will also include several observations made by members.

As iPolitics reported, senior Liberal government sources have grown frustration with the committee’s refusal to speed up review of the bill, noting that it was a direct response to calls from premiers and municipal police chiefs.

Marco Vigliotti has this one. 

Up for a long read? Here’s the latest adjournment proceeding piece.

One year into Mark Carney’s premiership, the defining challenge facing Ottawa has not simply been Donald Trump’s tariffs.

It’s been the growing realization that the assumption underpinning Canada’s economic relationship with the United States — that it offers predictability and abides by the rules-based trade — may no longer exist.

Carney inherited a volatile Trump trade environment, where major sectoral industries like auto, aluminum, steel and copper were hit by sweeping U.S. tariffs  as Washington increasingly tied economic policy to national security and industrial strategy.

In response, Carney’s government began advancing a broader vision of economic resilience under its “Build Canada Strong” agenda, one that emphasized reducing Canada’s overreliance on the U.S.

But as Ottawa attempted to translate that vision into policy, experts say the challenge quickly evolved beyond managing Trump himself. The deeper question became whether Canada was confronting a temporary disruption or a fundamentally different United States.

Sydney Ko has more. 

In Other Headlines

Internationally

Elsewhere, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said that Washington is expecting a response from Iran on Friday to its proposals for an interim deal to end the conflict in the Middle East, as Iran accused the US of breaching the increasingly fragile ceasefire announced last month.

In recent days there have been the biggest flare-ups in fighting in and around the contested strait of Hormuz since the informal truce began. The rise in violence followed Donald Trump’s announcement – then rapid pause – of a new naval mission aimed at opening the strategic waterway.

On Friday US forces fired on and disabled two Iranian-flagged tankers that attempted to violate the American blockade of Iran’s ports, the US military said.

Despite the clashes diplomatic efforts continue, with the mediators Pakistan passing to Iran a brief memorandum that the US has said could act as a basis for a more solid ceasefire allowing new talks.

Read more from The Guardian. 

Meanwhile, a day after a federal court ruled against President Trump’s latest global tariffs, his administration returned to the drawing board on Friday, trying to preserve its powers to wage economic warfare in time for high-stakes trade talks with China.

The latest legal blow concerned the 10 percent tariff that Mr. Trump imposed in late February on nearly all U.S. imports. The president unveiled that policy as a sort of temporary fix, after the Supreme Court tossed out his initial duties, but a panel of judges once again found that the White House had run afoul of the law.

The result was a familiar set of headaches for Mr. Trump, who has tried repeatedly — and with mixed success — to stretch his authority to tax imports without the express permission of Congress. Yet the president seemed unfazed by his latest defeat, telling reporters he would pursue his tariffs “a different way,” before the administration took the first steps toward appealing the case.

Technically, the Court of International Trade only declared the president’s across-the-board, 10 percent tariff to be illegal. Otherwise, it did not issue an order forcing the government to stop collecting it from all importers, at least for now. Still, the outcome marked both a political and legal setback for Mr. Trump, who had spent much of the week issuing trade threats against Europe and preparing for talks in China.

The New York Times has more. 

In Other International Headlines

The Kicker

In case you’re wondering, the Pentagon released some “new, never-before-seen” files on U.F.Os today.

It’s also part of the department’s commitment to “transparency,” after kicking reporters out earlier this year.

But not to rain on U.F.O. enthusiasts’ parade, the files released consisted of mostly murky images, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, has something to say:

The New York Times has more.