Mr. Donison, I'd like to come back to something you said earlier and which sounds a lot like the answer I got from the Government House Leader.
The Prime Minister, even if he had a majority government, would retain the right or privilege, to a certain extent, of being able to go and see the Governor General and ask him or her to dissolve the Government for a valid reason.
Do you agree with me that what constitutes a good or major reason is totally subjective? It is certainly not objective information. In law, what you see as a good reason may not be what I consider a good reason; it's subjective.
Do you remember the pretext Jean Chrétien used to call an election in 2000, when he had just been re-elected in 1997? I remember it as if it happened yesterday. He was at Rideau Hall. After visiting the Governor General, reporters asked him why, when it had been less than four years since the last election, he had decided to call another. He answered that he needed a mandate from the people of Canada in order to spend the budget surpluses as he was intending to do.