►Immigration Minister Jason Kenney discusses main estimates and expenditure plans at the Commons immigration committee.
►The procedure and house affairs committee begins hearing objections to Ontario's proposed federal boundaries. Two eastern Ontario MPs (Ted Hsu and Scott Reid) and two from north of Toronto (Lois Brown and Peter Van Loan) are first to appear.
Under the plan, the City of Kingston north of Hwy. 401 would be reassigned from Hsu's Kingston and the Islands riding to the redrawn riding of Lanark--Frontenac, an area currently represented by Reid.
Further west, the commission want to move a small sliver of the Town of East Gwillimbury from Van Loan's York--Simcoe riding to Brown's riding of Newmarket--Aurora.
The bulk of Ontario's 15 new MPs would represent ridings in the Greater Toronto Area, according to the boundary commission's report tabled in February.
Shifting Boundaries: Ontario
Brampton, Markham, and the City of Toronto would each receive two new ridings, with single districts added to Ajax, Barrie, Hamilton, Milton, Mississauga, Ottawa, and the Durham, Halton, and York regions.
The committee will also sit in camera to consider their reports on British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
►Christine Tell, Saskatchewan's corrections and policing minister, answers questions on policing costs from MPs on the public safety committee.
►The finance committee continues to study income inequality in Canada. Witnesses include several professors, the Canada West Foundation, Canadian Medical Association, Conference Board of Canada, and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
►Wab Kinew, a Winnipeg-based musician and journalist, appears via videoconference at the aboriginal affairs committee, which is considering Bill C-428. Several First Nations chiefs and officials are also appearing.
►Senior officials from the justice department brief the Special Committee on Violence Against Aboriginal Women.
►Conservative MP David Wilks presents his bill on child kidnapping (C-299) to the Senate legal affairs committee.
-Andrew Thomson
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