MPs will get the chance to question two senior ministers over their departments’ budget plans, policy priorities and overall performance today as Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Industry Minister Navdeep Bains hit the spring main estimates circuit at their respective home committees.

Over at PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, interim auditor general Sylvain Ricard will brief committee members on the office’s latest review of how the government is dealing with the increase in asylum requests, which concluded that the current system is experiencing logistical difficulties keeping up with the flood of applications. Also on the witness list: Senior officials from Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the Immigration and Refugee Board and the Canada Border Services Agency.

JUSTICE members are set to wrap up their investigation into “online hate” with a final round of witnesses, including representatives from the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, the Federation of Black Canadians and the Organization for the Prevention of Violence, as well as groups representing Muslims in Alberta and Windsor.

On the Senate side, ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS members kick off their study of New Democrat MP Romeo Saganash’s proposal to commit the government to fully harmonizing federal law with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples with an opening presentation by the sponsor himself, as well as Sen. Murray Sinclair. They’ll also quiz Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez on his plan to protect and promote Indigenous languages, which is currently awaiting clause-by-clause review.

Finally, TRANSPORT members go behind closed doors to discuss how to handle their recommendation for a substantial rewrite of the government’s bid to ban tanker traffic off the coast of British Columbia, which may or may not be heading back to the Senate for final approval, and NATIONAL SECURITY begins the final phase of its analysis of Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan’s attempt to overhaul the military justice system to provide more protection and support for victims.

Committee highlights courtesy of our friends at iPoliticsINTEL.

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