Trudeau's agenda includes a roundtable discussion at the Kerby Centre at 11:30 a.m. MT, followed by the media availability at 12:40 p.m. MT.

At 2:30 p.m. MT, Trudeau will meet with officials at the Thomas Riley Building at SAIT Polytechnic.

The federal budget tabled last week includes changes that would temporarily enhance benefits in some regions, granting up to 70 weeks of coverage to long-tenured employees in 12 regions with high unemployment.

Trudeau may face questions on his government's decision to boost employment insurance benefits for parts of the country while leaving some hard-hit areas of the oilpatch out of the budget plan.

The government has said it picked 12 regions that needed the most help with extra weeks of EI benefits for jobless workers including parts of Alberta as well as Newfoundland and Labrador, northern British Columbia, northern Manitoba, northern Ontario, northern Saskatchewan, Whitehorse and Nunvaut.

Calgary was on the list but Edmonton was left off, as were parts of Saskatchewan.

University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe says the federal government had to draw the line somewhere, leaving some regions out of its enhanced EI provisions. But the way Ottawa came up with its list was a little subjective, he added.

"So it's not a very clear formula that you could just punch in numbers to and get an answer to," said Tombe.

With files from The Canadian Press