UPDATED - Orders of the Day: Hope you enjoyed your vacation, Prime Minister, because you're hitting the road.

Anyway, after today's presumably-at-least-tangentially-aquarium-related announcement, the PM's short-term future whereabouts are, alas, as yet unknown, as his office doesn't usually release his schedule more than 24 hours in advance. According to the hints that they were dropping last week, however, we shouldn't be terribly surprised to see him pop up at carefully managed events across the country, talking about Canada's enviable yet still fragile economy, and taking a limited number of questions from the (ideally significantly less long-form-census-obsessed) local press.

Speaking of the Liberal Express, after returning from a swing through Southern Ontario this weekend, it heads off to Pembroke this afternoon for a corn roast, and your humble OotD chronicler is climbing aboard for the evening, so be sure to check back later for dispatches from the road.

Meanwhile, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is in Toronto, where he will deliver a keynote address to the Economic Club of Canada on "the reality of Canadian national security in 2010." Does that mean he'll finally let the rest of us in on what CSIS head Richard Fadden reported back to his office on those unnamed foreign states and entities who, Fadden previously confided to a somewhat less private and top-secret-cleared audience than he apparently realized, may hold undue influence over similarly unnamed Canadian public officials? I guess we'll find out later today. 

Back on the Hill, NDP MP Peter Stoffer holds a press conference to explain how the government can do more to help Canadian veterans and their families.

Finally, a teaser for tomorrow: the Public Safety committee returns for yet another summer session, this time to discuss a Conservative-backed motion to hold hearings on airport security. At the moment, it's not clear whether the opposition parties will support the move, since the aforementioned Conservatives successfully stonewalled an earlier attempt to begin an investigation into G20 security, but it's always possible that the parties could reach some sort of compromise that would allow both studies to proceed.