Orders of the Day: Did everyone have a relaxing and refreshing long weekend?

Here's hoping -- particularly if you happen to be, say, Treasury Board Minister Minister Stockwell Day*, or this week's Liberal MP on Hill duty Mark Holland, both of whom are scheduled to hold press conferences in the next two hours.

The former, we are advised, will "talk about the economy" -- exactly what aspects of which, are left tantalizingly unspecified, but I feel safe in predicting that it will involve how well the government is managing it -- while the latter will be calling for more accountability at the still-officially-embattled-if-somewhat-census-overshadowed CSIS. (But what of the absent prime minister, you ask? Oh, shush, his office would no doubt grumble. The country isn't just going to quietly but efficiently run itself, now, is it? He'll be at caucus later this week, so give the guy a break already.)

On the committee front: Nothing, alas -- at least, not yet, although if there's one thing we've come to count on from those daily Liberal press conferences, it's the strong possibility that they'll demand an emergency meeting on whatever the headline du jour happens to be. Gven that the MP on duty this week also serves as his party's public safety critic, there are any number of ongoing issues he could seize to do exactly that, from the latest CSIS-related revelations, to unrest at the highest echelons of the RCMP, to the now-seemingly-temporarily-forgotten  post-mortem on the G20 security setup that opposition parties were vowing to conduct a few weeks back, to the government's apparent refusal to even consider providing compensation to the city of Ottawa for last year's Tamil protests, to airport security.

Finally, the Council of the Federation gathers in Winnipeg for the annual summer interpremier gabfest, and though it hasn't yet made the official agenda, it's a good bet that the census will come up, although as yet, they seem to be at least two premiers short of unanimous condemnation of the decision to axe the mandatory long form census. Then again, who knows what will happen behind closed doors?
 

That's about it as far as what's on the radar this morning. I'll let you know if anything else pops up.