I want to come back to this issue: under responsible government, under our constitutional parliamentary democracy, the government governs as long as it enjoys the confidence of the House. I believe yesterday that Prime Minister Harper himself stated exactly that.
So when a throne speech, for instance, is adopted, it means that government enjoys the confidence of the House. It could be that on the next day, 10 days, or 10 months later, there are other confidence votes, some of which are deemed by the Prime Minister to be confidence, and he could do that virtually every time there's a vote; others are deemed to be confidence by conventional rule. It means then that the House again expresses its confidence or lack thereof in the government. If the House expresses a lack of confidence in the government, then we are in a situation where ultimately the Governor General with her unfettered authority could dissolve government on the advice of the Prime Minister or not.
I just want to make sure that my understanding of our constitution and our constitutional parliamentary democracy does in fact work in the way I've just described it. I don't want to invite the scorn of my colleague Dave. I want him to know that I do understand it.