The six-member committee will explore the province’s immigration powers; its capacity to make decisions on matters of language, secularism and culture; and what the provincial government calls “encroachments” in provincial jurisdictions, among other issues. (The Logic)

Talking point: In announcing the committee on Friday, Quebec Premier François Legault said the federal government had “intensified a troubling tendency toward centralization of powers and encroachment” in health, education and housing, citing measures announced in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s budget in April. Legault’s announcement comes as his Coalition Avenir Québec party continues to lose ground to the separatist Parti Québécois.