where the heck will ITQ be?

A former prime minister! No, not that one – Joe Clark, who appears before Foreign Affairs this afternoon, somewhat inexplicably alongside the director of South Carolina’s Canada Office, to discuss “key elements of Canadian foreign policy”.

Or, “What’s that, canary? You have a bad feeling about going back down the mineshaft?”

What with one thing and another, the ITQ committee lookahead preparation team is running a little bit late today, which means there won’t be a complete overview of the week until later tonight – or possibly even tomorrow morning, in which case I promise that it will totally be worth the wait. To tide our fellow committee junkies over in the meantime, however,  here’s what’s going on behind the committee room doors this afternoon:

Kady O’Malley on The Visit

Not because they didn’t want to be there, mind you, but because at press time, the crack communications team over at PMO still hasn’t gotten around to cranking out a media advisory or itinerary for the ritual that is about to unfold.