Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef talked about her own early struggles. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

As the second week of an extended parliamentary hiatus hits the midway point, Team Trudeau’s post-release budget-boosting tour appears to be winding down, at least as far as the multi-ministerial promotional tour.

As it stands, there’s only one event on the agenda for today — or, at least, only one to merit the issuing of an official media advisory: Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos’ mid-afternoon drop-in at a Quebec City youth centre, where he will, once again, “highlight …. measures that will enhance support for low-income workers.”

That’s not to suggest that his cabinet colleagues have dropped off the radar en masse, of course.

Elsewhere in La Belle Province, International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau will emphasizes her government’s stalwart support of the Quebec dairy sector with a funding reveal at Bishopton-based co-operative Ferme Elegante.

Meanwhile, Small Business Minister Bardish Chagger will share the details of a fresh tranche of federal cash earmarked for “clean technology innovation” in her home riding of Waterloo.

On the international front, Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef wraps up a three-day stint at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women by emphasizing the need to “engage men and boys” in the discussion, and chat with “Canadian and international youth” about “gender equality priorities.”

ON & AROUND THE HILL

The University of Ottawa hosts a panel discussion on “social media and democracy” — and specifically, the potential role that Facebook — and, presumably, other platforms — may play in the 2019 federal election.

According to the advisory, the session will focus on the results of a new University of Oxford study that concluded “social media and the internet were not responsible for creating ‘echo chambers’,” with the report’s co-author, University of Ottawa researcher Elizabeth Dubois, slated to offer her thoughts on the phenomenon, as well as

Also worth watching today: Statistics Canada release the latest data on Canada’s international investment position.