Orders of the Day - All's quiet on the Commons front ... but not on the Senate committee side!

The House of Commons may be shuttered this week, but the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs is still hard at work as it goes through the fine print of the omnicrime bill.

Judging from the number -- and length of the hearings held so far and scheduled for the future, C-10 appears to be undergoing a far more thorough review by the sober second thinkers of the Upper House than was the case when it went before the justice committee last year, although to be fair to their Commons counterparts, this committee is not operating under threat of time allocation or closure. Not yet, anyway -- and it's worth noting that even with a majority, it is considerably more difficult to pull that off in the Senate than in the House, thanks to a set of rules designed to inhibit such curtailment of debate.

In any case, the committee will be examining the provisions of the bill that relate to sentencing and post-sentence conditions for sexual offences against children.

On the witness list: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police; the Ontario Provincial Police, representatives of which are to include PMO InfoAlerteBot-cited Scott Naylor; Parents-Secours du Quebec; Beyond Borders; Boost Child Abuse Prevention & Intervention; "Sexual Deviance Specialist" Randall Fletcher; Comites des orphelin(es) victimes d'abus; Kids Internet Safety Alliance; Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness; Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers; Respect Group Founder Sheldon Kennedy; and finally, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney.

You can watch the livestream here.

Outside the precinct, Rx&D president Russell Williams delivers "brief remarks" on "driving innovation in the health care sector" at a lunch event at the Sheraton Hotel.

On the ministerial circuit today: Human Resources Minister Diane Finley muses aloud on "the realities of Canada's changing demographics" -- read: Old Age Security -- during an appearance at the Canadian Club of Toronto.

Out east, Revenue Minister Gail Shea tours her home province of Prince Edward Island, making three separate stops for "funding announcements". On the list of lucky recipients today: the Tignish STEP Program, Summerside's Harbourfront Theatre and Holland College.

Meanwhile, ACOA Minister Bernard Valcourt heads to Restigouche with federal support for a local community business development corporation before heading to Bathurst for what is billed as "the first supplier development session" under the newly unveiled Atlantic Shipbuilding Action! Plan.

Elsewhere in New Brunswick, Saint John MP Rodney Weston plays the hometown hero with new money for Innovatia Inc., as his caucus colleague, Robert Goguen, "visits the premises of Approach Navigation Systems" as part of a regional tour of companies "successfully competing in the global supply chain."

Moving westward to Quebec, Jacques Gourde will reveal "the awarding of financial assistance" to Cintech Agroalimentaire in Saint-Hyacinthe

Finally, in Manitoba, Veterans Affairs Minister Steven Blaney will announce improved services for veterans at the Veterans Affairs district office in Winnipeg as Shelly Glover does the same on crime prevention at the local Minister's Regional Office, while in Miniota, Robert Sopuck brings glad tidings on agricultural research.

Also out and about on the constituency week hustings:

• Thomas Mulcair takes his leadership campaign  to Vancouver, where he'll make a "policy announcement" at the Woodward's Building before heading to the delightfully monikered Pumpjack Pub for a meet-and-greet with local party members. 
  
  
• Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae treks through Quebec.

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