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There may be a week’s worth of sitting days left on the official Commons calendar, but it’s starting to seem ever more likely that the Commons could shut down for the holidays as early as Wednesday.

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The biggest clue, aside from the total lack of time-sensitive legislation on the House to-do list: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to hold his newly traditional pre-holiday media availability, which will take place at the National Press Theatre later this morning.

If there’s a sudden burst of advisories from party and House leaders announcing end-of-sitting press conferences, we’ll know that a deal to break early may be in the works, although as it only takes one MP to deny the required unanimous consent to close down before the scheduled date of adjournment, it’s never a done deal until it actually happens.

Meanwhile, MPs will kick off the first day of the last workweek of the parliamentary year with a second round of debate onConservative MP Kelly McCaulay’s backbench bid to scrap the rule requiring minimum withdrawals from a registered retirement fund.