Orders of the Day: Let the Post Prime Ministerial Youtube Appearance Era begin!

Happy St. Patrick's/Weekly Caucus/NDP Opposition Day, everyone!

Due to the aforementioned caucus meetings, there are no committees scheduled for this morning; later today, however, the Afghanistan committee gets back to detainee-treatment-investigating business with an appearance by Amnesty International lawyer Paul Champ.

Also on the schedule for this afternoon: ; Human Resources mulls over a Bloc Quebecois private members' bill on employment insurance, Government Operations goes behind closed doors to thrash out a work plan for its investigation into the departmental spending freeze, the Subcommittee on International Human Rights elects a new chair, Status of Women returns happily to its normal state of Helena-Guergis-appearance-free relative obscurity to study efforts to increase the presence of women in "non-traditional occupations" and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz hits the estimates circuit.

Meanwhile, in the Chamber, MPs debate a rare negative-option opposition day motion from the NDP that would, if passed, inform all and sundry that, in the opinion of the House, "the Prime Minister shall not advise the Governor General to prorogue any session of any Parliament for longer than seven calendar days without a specific resolution of this House of Commons to support such a prorogation."

Finally, if, like the Inside Politics crew, you spent the better part of your evening staring at the computer screen and patiently clicking refresh in hopes that the video evidence of the prime minister's first foray into unfiltered(ish) citizen engagement would finally appear, you can experience the magic all over again via our Youtube viewing party liveblog.

In fairness to PMO, Google Canada subsequently took responsibility for the just-over-an-hour delay in posting the tape, which was due to the interview itself running nearly twice as long as scheduled, which, oddly enough, is exactly what tends to happen when the person conducting -- or, in this case, 'facilitating' - an interview with a politician -- any politician, not just the prime minister -- plays no real role in the ensuing not-really-a-conversation-so-much-as-a-stream-of-talking-point-aided-consciousness other than to awkwardly thank them for the answer when they finally run out of words.