With just seven weeks to go before the House shuts down for the summer, Team Trudeau is poised to unveil its latest proposed overhaul of Canada’s election and political financing laws.

The new bill, which could be introduced as early as this afternoon, is expected to include several key 2015 campaign commitments, including new restrictions on how much political parties can spend between — or possibly even during — elections, as well as the establishment of an independent commission to oversee leaders’ debates and, potentially, new monitoring and enforcement measures to protect the integrity of the federal election system against foreign (or domestic) hackers.

It will likely also incorporate elements of C-33, which was introduced more than year ago by Trudeau’s first designated democratic institutions minister, Maryam Monsef, and subsequently left to languish in legislative limbo.

Among the changes proposed in the now dormant bill: Reversing several provisions brought in under the previous Conservative government’s controversial Fair Elections Act, including removing the “limitations” on outreach and public education activities by Elections Canada, enshrining voting rights for Canadians living abroad and once again allowing the chief electoral officer to authorise the use of the standard voter ID card as identification at the polls, as well as creating a new process to allow young Canadians to pre-register to vote.

According to a notice put out by his office, Treasury Board President Scott Brison — who is currently serving as acting minister while Karina Gould is on leave following the birth of her first child last month — is scheduled to brief reporters on his government’s “efforts to modernize Canada’s federal elections” later this afternoon.

By a serendipitous twist, Gould herself will be back in the spotlight today, albeit briefly and in her hometown of Burlington, where she’ll join Metrolinx COO Greg Percy for an “important infrastructure event” at the local GO station.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to spend the day far from the madding crowd of the Commons — in Vancouver, to be precise, where he’s slated to join Amazon officials at the downtown building formerly occupied by Canada Post, which has been widely rumoured to be on the e-commerce giant’s list of potential sites to expand its presence in the city.

Later this morning, he’ll join area “business leaders” for a closed-door “roundtable discussion” hosted by the Vancouver Economic Commission.

Also out and about today:

• Finance Minister Bill Morneau drops by Toronto’s iconic Massey Hall, where, alongside his provincial counterpart Charles Sousa and Massey and Roy Thomson Hall CEO Deane Cameron, he will take part in an otherwise unspecified “important infrastructure event” before heading back to the National Capital Region for an afternoon appearance before the House status of women committee.
• Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier is set to make the rounds in her home region of Saguenay, where she’ll share her government’s plan to invest in Chicoutimi-based Laboratoire PhytoChemia, which, as per the notice, is “one of the few Canadian businesses that specialize in the analysis of plant-based products,” and drop by a local aluminum processor to outline still more federal support for local enterprises.

Finally, Statistics Canada will publish the latest provincial and territorial “cannabis economic accounts,” which will include data from 1961 to 2017.