Once we hit 4 o’clock, this year’s Federal Budget will finally drop. Vassy Kapelos tees up a busy day in the House of Commons with Ted Mallett, the Director of Economic Forecasting at the Conference Board of Canada. Meantime, Global Affairs Canada is being publicly shamed after Canada’s Auditor General showcased its failure to track billions of dollars in foreign aid. Shedding some light on that subject is Karen Hogan, the Auditor General herself. Later in Hour 1, Prime Minister Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden have agreed to close a notorious loophole in the Safe Third Country Agreement. We get the bigger picture from Abdulla Daoud, the Executive Director of Montreal’s Refugee Centre. And finally, a man from New Brunswick forms an unlikely bond with a grey squirrel named Peanut.