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May 4, 2026
What’s happening on (and off) Parliament Hill, plus the news you need to start your day.
As previewed in What We’re Watching, Prime Minister Mark Carney was scheduled to start the week by wrapping up a two-day stint on the high-level diplomatic hustings, where he was set to make the rounds as the first-ever non-European leader to be invited to the European Political Community Summit, a twice-yearly gathering that, as Canadian Press notes, is focused on “strategic co-operation in politics, security and infrastructure.”
According to his itinerary, in addition to speaking at the main plenary session — and, later, joining a “roundtable discussion” on “strengthening connectivity and economic security in the context of the green transition” — Carney was booked in for one-on-one meetings with European Council president António Costa, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and his Spanish, Italian and French counterparts, as well as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy before boarding his 12-hour return flight to Ottawa, which should touch down just after 10 p.m. tonight.
