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PM Carney to attend First Nations – First Ministers’ summit in Ottawa

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After jetting back from his whirlwind visit to Türkiye over the weekend, Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to start the week by joining First Nations and Indigenous leaders, as well as most — although not all — provincial and territorial premiers for a high-stakes summit in Ottawa, which will be “the first such meeting in two decades,” as CBC News points outs. (8:45 a.m.)

“’First Nations and Canada and the provinces are at a crossroads,’ Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) told CBC Indigenous. ‘Many chiefs have told us that they see this meeting as a chance to chart maybe a path forward, a new path forward.’ At an AFN-organized ceremony on Sunday few would speculate on what the meeting’s outcome will be, but for chiefs the mantra going in is ‘tangible results.’ They stressed it can’t be a ‘one-and-done’ event.”

As yet, there’s no official word on which premiers will be in attendance, CTV News reports that just five of the invited first ministers took part in Sunday’s event — Tony Wakeham (Newfoundland and Labrador) Rob Lantz (Prince Edward Island), Susan Holt (New Brunswick), Wab Kinew (Manitoba) and R.J. Simpson (Northwest Territories).

“Even when the meeting begins in earnest Monday, the premiers of Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia are expected to be absent,” CTV notes.

Although the talks are set to take place behind closed doors, Carney is expected to take questions from reporters this afternoon. (3:30 p.m.)

Also on his itinerary, according to his office: A “dinner in honour of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan,” who is set to spend the next two days in Ottawa.

Back in the precinct, MPs are set to clock in a few more hours going over Government Transformation Minister Joël Lightbound’s pitch to convert the Defence Investment Agency into a crown corporation, which is now under notice of being targeted for time allocation via a motion that could be brought forward as early as today.

Later this afternoon, they’ll vote on Bloc Québécois MP Martin Champoux’s non-binding call for the House of Commons to recognize that “culture is central to Quebec’s identity,” and urge the government to “uphold the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s decisions imposing levies on streaming services … and make the interim payment of $600 million promised to the cultural sector for the current year.” (3 p.m.)

Outside the chamber, the C-39 legislative committee, which is tasked with reviewing the government’s latest push to further streamline the project assessment and overhaul the federal labour code, will hold an extended afternoon session to hear from experts, advocates and industry groups, including Unifor national president Lana Payne, United Steelworkers national director Marty Warren and the International Union of Operating Engineers, along with representatives of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec, Electricity Canada, Quebec Mining Association, Ecojustice Canada, Nature Conservancy of Canada, Chiefs of Ontario, First Nations Summit and Liard First Nation. (3:30 p.m.)

Unifor’s Payne is also on the latest witness list from the newly created Senate committee responsible for studying the bill, which is set to continue its preliminary examination with back-to-back presentations from Canadian Labour Congress president Bea Bruske, Canadian Union of Public Employees national president Mark Hancock and representatives from Teamsters Canada and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, as well as Chiefs of Ontario, B.C. Assembly of First Nations and Southern Chiefs’ Organization grand chief Jerry Daniels. (12 p.m.)

Also on the radar: Two British Columbia MPs — New Democrat Gord Johns and Conservative Bob Zimmer will team up with B.C. General Employees Union president Paul Finch and National Union of Public General Employees president Bert Blundon to “challenge the federal Liberal government’s failure to change the National Occupational Classification for wildland and forest firefighters to officially recognize them as firefighters,” as outlined in a backbench motion introduced by Johns earlier this year. (11:30 a.m.)

ON AND AROUND THE HILL

Canadian Mortgage Brokers Association president Jessica Rickerby heads to the West Block press theatre to promote her group’s call for the government to “overhaul restrictive mortgage policies that are preventing first-time buyers and leaving families unable to manage rising costs,” which, as per the advisory, includes “extending maximum amortization periods, restoring responsible refinancing for insured mortgages and establishing a national down payment assistance framework with the provinces.” (8:30 a.m.)

OUTSIDE THE PRECINCT

Secretary of State for Nature Nathalie Provost makes the rounds at the 17th annual Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17) in Armenia, where she’s slated to take part in a “high level panel on innovative nature finance.”

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