After spending the day in and around Red Deer, Alta., yesterday — where, as Canadian Press reports, he teamed up with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to announce $510 million in new federal financing for local infrastructure aimed at supporting new homes and visited a local canola farm —  Prime Minister Mark Carney is booked in for a mid-morning tour of the Port of Vancouver, which, according to his office, is not currently slated to include a back-and-forth with reporters. (10:30 a.m. PTD)

According to the wire service, Carney arrived in Vancouver in time to make an appearance at a campaign event for his very recently former deputy chief of staff, Braeden Caley, who is carrying the Liberal banner onto the byelection hustings in North Vancouver – Capilano, B.C., which is one of three ridings set to head to the polls on Aug. 31.

Elsewhere on the West Coast, Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin drops by the Burnaby offices of BlueForce Energy — which, as per its website, offers “affordable EV conversions, state-of-the-art charging infrastructure and battery storage solutions” with “industry-leading speeds” — to unveil fresh federal support for “electric vehicle infrastructure and education across Canada.” (10 a.m. PDT)

Back in southern Ontario, Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon, whose portfolio includes FedDev Ontario, highlights his government’s latest bid to help businesses throughout the region “build trade resilience and enter new European markets.” (9:30 a.m.)

Later this morning, his fellow front bencher International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu will outline the “next steps in Canada’s approach to trade diversification” during a mid-morning press conference in Brampton. (11 a.m.)

Also on the radar: The Supreme Court of Canada has served notice that it is ready to hand down its verdict on a legal challenge that, as CBC News reported earlier this year, “could bring sweeping changes to how Canadians hold their elected officials accountable” — or, alternately, establish a new precedent limiting the power of the court to review decisions made by the federal ethics and conflict of interest commissioner. (9:45 a.m.)

As CBC notes, the question currently before the court stems from an earlier attempt by advocacy group Democracy Watch to trigger a judicial review of a controversial 2021 ruling by then-ethics commissioner Mario Dion that cleared then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of breaching the conflict of interest rules.

“That ethics finding stemmed from the Liberal government’s decision to give WE Charity a $43-million contract to run a $912-million student grant program amid family connections Trudeau and then finance minister Bill Morneau had with the organization,” the broadcaster noted in its coverage of the hearings.

“(Dion) found Morneau breached the Conflict of Interest Act when he failed to recuse himself from cabinet deliberations on the contract, but concluded Trudeau did not,” which prompted Democracy Watch to file its initial request for review, which was subsequently dismissed by the Federal Court of Appeal.

“If (Democracy Watch) wins, the decision would not only force a review of Dion’s 2021 Trudeau WE Charity finding, (but) would include opening the door to allow any watchdog decision to be challenged in court,” CBC notes.

IN THE CHAMBER

Both the House of Commons and the Senate have shut down for the summer, with regular parliamentary proceedings set to resume in September.

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• Premier Doug Ford’s eastern Ontario caucus questioning high-speed rail project
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• Carney says government has ‘taken back control’ of immigration
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• About 10,000 federal public servants apply for early retirement
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• U.S. customs operations gradually resume at Montreal airport after odour disruption
• Quebec company banned from selling unauthorized peptides: Health Canada
• Former Harper cabinet minister Chris Alexander to run for mayor of Toronto
• Residents seek moratorium on Toronto data centres, as Mississauga approves pause
• Algoma Steel reports Q2 loss of $96M, compared with $110.6M loss last year
• Alberta and Ottawa sign deal to fund water, wastewater infrastructure for housing
• Carney comes to Alberta, talks housing, rides a sprayer, hears from separatists
• WestJet flight attendants’ union serves airline 72-hour strike notice
• Ksi Lisims LNG inks formal 20-year supply deal with German utility Uniper
• No word on return for Clinton, B.C., residents as fire burns watershed, power lines

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