The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found Canadians want opposition parties to work with the government despite persistent low approval for the Liberals.

A new provisional witness list for the coming weeks indicates senior government bureaucrats and members of national security agencies will also testify.

Liberals who spoke publicly on the sidelines of the meetings have, so far, expressed positivity about their approach to the coming election year.

'Justin Trudeau’s name is very radioactive in my parts of the country,' said NDP MP Alistair MacGregor at the party's Montreal caucus meeting.

The party announced Mark Carney's new role as chair of a Liberal task force on economic growth as MPs arrived for the caucus retreat Monday.

Mark Carney is set to arrive in Nanaimo, B.C., on Monday and will speak to Liberal MPs at their summer caucus retreat on the topic of growth and the economy.

The Liberal caucus is gathering in British Columbia this week, still digesting the blow from the NDP that ended the government's supply-and-confidence agreement.

In an interview ahead of Monday's party caucus retreat in the Outaouais region, Bloc House Leader Alain Therrien says his party is happy to regain its balance of power.

Several Liberal MPs privately and publicly demanded they meet as a team after the devastating byelection loss of a longtime political stronghold in Toronto last June.

In a statement on his decision to resign, Jeremy Broadhurst cited the toll two decades and five national campaigns have taken on himself and his family.