Overview

• Parliament returns Monday for the fall session, with Prime Minister Mark Carney facing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who reclaimed a seat in an Alberta byelection.
• The government plans to table its first budget in October, and the House leader says the deficit will be substantial.
• Carney frames the plan as restraining operating costs while investing in growth, after identifying early projects such as LNG expansion, a Port of Montreal upgrade and a Saskatchewan copper mine.
• Liberals are preparing crime measures, including proposed new Criminal Code offences to curb intimidation near religious and cultural buildings and changes on bail.
• Conservatives will focus on living costs, crime and immigration and promise proposals on faster building permits and immigration caps, as the minority government seeks cross-party votes and enters with decade-high Ipsos approval.