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Elsewhere on the European diplomatic circuit: Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland meets with her G20 counterparts in Bonn while International Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne plans to “promote Canada’s aggressive trade agenda” while touring Berlin and Hamburg.

Back in the Chamber, MPs will while away the remaining hours on the Commons clock by considering the committee report on the government’s proposal to create new guidelines for the management of Rouge Urban Park, as well as broaden the mandate of the existing park services account to encompass a protected area “that is being established, enlarged or designated.”

Later this afternoon, Conservative MP and leadership hopeful Brad Trost will attempt to make the case for selling off the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as laid out in his private members’ bill that has already been flagged by House Speaker Geoff Regan as a proposal that may require the support of a minister – known in parliamentary parlance as a “royal recommendation” – in order to proceed beyond third reading.

As there is next to no chance that the bill will survive a second reading vote, however, the consequences of such a designation will likely remain firmly lodged in the realm of the hypothetical. if it did somehow make it through a final House vote without securing the necessary ministerial sign-off, the speaker would then be obliged to declare it null and void.