MPs and senators are back in Ottawa Monday, after a break week that allowed MPs to travel home for Remembrance Day. The Canadian political calendar is a full one this week.

Monday

Three different House of Commons committees will begin examining the fall omnibus budget, known as Bill C-43, this week. The Standing Committee on Finance will hear from a number of interested groups Monday afternoon including the Canadian Media Production Association, the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada, the Canadian Polar Commission and IT International Telecom Inc. The Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration will also study the legislation Monday.

And the Alberta legislature starts up again Monday, as Jim Prentice heads into his first session as premier. New members of the legislature, including Prentice, will be sworn in.

Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa will deliver an economic update for the province. Sousa is also expected to address the government’s $12.5 billion deficit.

Voters in Ontario’s Whitby-Oshawa riding and Alberta’s Yellowhead riding will elect new MPs. Both ridings were formerly held by Conservatives. While the ridings are expected to stay blue after Tuesday’s vote, all eyes will be on Whitby-Oshawa, where voters will elect a replacement for the late Jim Flaherty. The Liberals have been campaigning hard in the Ontario riding.

Tuesday

The secretive Board of Internal Economy committee will meet Tuesday to discuss NDP harassment allegations. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau recently suspended two members of his caucus -- Massimo Pacetti and Scott Andrews -- following allegations of misconduct raised by two female NDP MPs. Pacetti and Andrews have denied the allegations. There is no official process in place to deal with such issues in Parliament.

The Conservative government will surely keep a close eye on the U.S. Senate Tuesday, where senators will vote to approve the Keystone XL pipeline project. The legislation was tabled by Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu, who is attempting to appeal to voters in Louisana, where she faces a runoff election Dec. 6. Keystone bills have never been approved the Democrat-controlled Senate.

Senior officials from the RCMP, Public Safety Canada, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police will brief the Senate National Security and Defence committee on security threats facing Canada Tuesday afternoon.

The Commons Natural Resources committee will also study the fall omnibus budget bill.

Wednesday

Former Conservative staffer Michael Sona will be sentenced Wednesday for his role in the so-called robocalls scandal of the 2011 federal election. Sona was found guilty of election fraud Oct. 17. He faces up a $5,000 fine and a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

Friday

Dean Del Mastro’s sentencing hearing, originally scheduled for Friday, has been postponed until January after he changed lawyers, according to media reports. Del Mastro’s new lawyer Leo Adler told Peterborough This Week that his client’s new sentencing hearing is expected to be rescheduled for Jan. 27. Following his conviction of election misspending, Del Mastro, once the parliamentary secretary to Harper, resigned as the MP for Peterborough Nov. 5 in a teary speech in the House of Commons. Last month, the former MP for Peterborough, was found guilty of exceeding campaign spending limits, failing to report a personal contribution to his own campaign and knowingly submitting a falsified document.

With files from the Canadian Press