Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna poses for a photo during a Climate Leaders' summit in Chelsea, Que., on May 17, 2018. iPolitics/Matthew Usherwood

Climate Justice Ottawa is hoping to bring “hundreds of residents of Ottawa Centre” to a public town hall hosted by local Liberal MP Catherine McKenna, who is, of course, also environment minister — an event that, as per the advisory, the organizers see as an “opportunity to draw attention to the Liberal government’s poor track record on climate change and Indigenous rights.”

Also in the capital today: Broadbent Institute kicks off the first full day of programming at the Progress Summit with a welcome address from former New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent himself, who will lead off a full day of discussions focused on the rise of populism on both the left and the right.

OUTSIDE THE PRECINCT

As a full contingent of front benchers trumpets Team Trudeau’s pre-election budget on the regional hustings, a second wave of ministers will fan out across the country to focus on specific local funding initiatives stemming from previous spending commitments, starting with Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay, who is in Vancouver for the launch of a series of “community-based commemorative events across Canada and overseas” to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day, as well as the Battle of Normandy.

Also on the West Coast today: Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef, who is set to drop by the Metro Vancouver YWCA to deliver what her office is billing as an “important announcement” to boost support for local women’s organizations.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale pays a mid-morning visit to the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service (STARS) base of operations in Regina, where, accompanied by STARS CEO Andrea Robertson, he’ll detail his government’s plan to funnel more federal cash into the service, as well as tour an air ambulance and take questions from reporters.

Back in Ontario, Infrastructure Minister François-Philippe Champagne wraps up his latest multiday regional tour in Sudbury, where he’ll stop by several projects that have, as the advisory puts it, “benefitted from Government of Canada funding,” including a local seniors’ centre and the Collège Boréal and Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, while Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau heads to Drummondville for an on-stage appearance at the annual meeting of Quebec grain producers.

Finally, Official Languages Minister Mélanie Joly celebrates the 50th anniversary of the expropriation of Mirabel by announcing that management of the Maison Jean-Paul Raymond — an “ancestral property” located within the territory expropriated by the federal government in 1969 — will be handed over to the Union des producteurs agricoles du Québec.

AT COMMITTEE

Regular committee meetings will resume when the House and Senate re-open for business on April 1.

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