Thank you, Mr. Walsh, for your presentation and for the letter in which you explained in great detail your considered view, through the legal lens, of the whole issue of regulating prorogation through either standing orders or legislation of the House of Commons. Your final conclusion is that the only real, effective way would be through a formal constitutional amendment that would limit or proscribe the Governor General's discretionary authority to prorogue Parliament and establish the conditions.
However, you make the point that the Standing Orders only regulate the business of the House, including the committees, and the conduct of its members in the House, and therefore it has no effect outside of the House of Commons. Then you go on to say that through the Standing Orders the House could regulate something “punitive” for a member, who might happen to be a prime minister, who violates the Standing Orders. Could you expand? I'm having difficulty grasping that.