Immigration, housing to headline cabinet retreat in Halifax Monday
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Housing and immigration will take centre stage today as the federal cabinet retreat in Halifax moves into its first full day of meetings.
Housing and immigration will take centre stage today as the federal cabinet retreat in Halifax moves into its first full day of meetings.
The annual end-of-summer cabinet gathering is intended to set the agenda for the fall sitting of Parliament which begins three weeks from today.
The Liberals are in a make-it-or-break-it moment, following more than a year of slumping polling numbers and at most a year left before the next federal election.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to take questions from the media early this morning, something he has done far less frequently since the Liberals lost a critical byelection in a Toronto stronghold at the end of June.
Ministers are also expected to provide updates on the government's ongoing revamp of the temporary foreign workers program, as well as national child care and electric vehicle tariffs.
The cabinet will also be forced to contend with the still unsettled labour strife within the two national railways, with Teamsters planning a protest at the meeting today.
The government last week asked the Canada Industrial Relations Board to begin binding arbitration to end a work stoppage that began when both Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) locked out workers on Thursday at midnight.
